Comments on: Einstein’s Riddle Solution Explained

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:26:44 +0000

You guyyyyyyyyyyyyyys, just read the whole thing before criticizing him. That’s not th final chart, he just organized the given data there. Ughhhhhh

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:24:18 +0000

His chart is not wrong. Actually it’s not the final chart, it’s not the answer. He says there that he just organised all the given data, so because in the beginning he didn’t know what the answer will be, he just randomly put everything in the table, so it can be more organized.
P.S. You couldn’t solve this in 20 minutes, when making up a lie, at least try to make it realistic. I got it too, but it took me 2 hours straight.

By: Ehimare

Ehimare — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:21:21 +0000

The explanations ends up at the right conclusion with my chart.
However, the tabulateed form of the answer shown above does not tally with the analysis…
More riddles pls!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:58:55 +0000

sorry Tom while it is logic based you are failing the riddle itself the riddle is to make people use the learned deduction and why they never get it but if you remove fish completly then the riddle already has you

By: Christian Pritchett

Christian Pritchett — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 05:11:14 +0000

This will give you the correct answer and also a a grid that’s not completely wrong, as the one provided earlier is.

1. Order the houses 1 to 5 from left to right.
2. The Norwegian lives in house 1.
3. This means that house 2 is blue since only one house is “next to” house 1 on the 1-5 grid.
4. Since the norwegian is in house 1 we know that this house cannot be blue (house 2 is) green (it’s left of the white house, but the norwegian is left of the blue house) or white (there is no house to its left.) Since the Brit lives in a red house, there is only one color left for house 1, yellow.
5. This means that the norwegian in yellow house 1 also smokes dunhills.
6. House 2 keeps horses. (So we know that either 1 or 3 keeps cats.)
7. Mark “milk” for house 3.
8. Because we know the colors of houses 1 and 2 and we know that house 3′s owner drinks coffee, we can deduce from the fact that the green house is to the left of the white house that the green house must be #4 and the white must be #5.
9. Since we have used the four colors OTHER than red, we know the center house has to be red which means it’s own by the brit.
10. Now we know what the norwegian in yellow house 1 who smokes dunhills drinks, because milk and coffee have already been assigned to the red and green houses, the dane drinks tea (can’t be tea) and whoever drinks beer smokes blue masters but we know that yellow house 1 smokes dunhills. Thus, the only beverage left for house 1 is water.
11. The man who smokes blends has a neighbor who drinks water. House 1 drinks water, and its only neighbor is house 2. Therefore, house 2 smokes blends.
12. We know from rule 12 that some house somewhere has an inhabitant who smokes blue master and drinks beer. Now, for houses 1-4, we know either what they smoke or what they drink, and none of them smoke blue master or drink beer. This means that the owner of white house five smokes blue masters and drinks beer.
13. The German smokes prince. We have a nationality for house 1 and 3, neither of which is German, and a smoking preference for 1, 2, and 5, none of which is Prince. The only number not already mentioned is 4, which means that for a house to have a german who smokes prince it has to be #4 by rule 13.
14. So much of the grid is filled in now this solves itself. We know the dane drinks tea, and we have four beverages filled in except for blue house two. So the Dane must occupy house 2 since it’s the only remaining house with both nationality AND drinking preference empty.
15. The only remaining house without a nationality filled in for it is house 5 which means the swede lives there so house five must keep dogs.
16. The only blank for cigar preference now is red house 3 with the brit, which means he must smoke the only unused cigar type; pall malls. This means that house 3 rears birds.
17. We knew already that the man who smokes blends lives next to one who keeps cats and that house 2 smoked blends, but because house 2 had a house on either side either house 1 or house 3 could have kept cats. Now we know that house 3 keeps birds, and the only remaining house next to two is house 1, so house 1 keeps cats.
18: The answer. We have filled in cats, horses, birds, and dogs for houses 1, 2, 3, and 5, so the fish HAS to live in green house four with the german who drinks coffee and smokes prince.

Your final grid will look like this:

Yellow Blue Red Green White
Norwegian Dane Brit German Swede
Dunhill Blends Pall Mall Prince Blue Master
Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer
Cats Horses Birds Fish Dogs

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 29 May 2011 23:54:28 +0000

Sorry but you are wrong. There is a reason Einstein said 98% of the population can’t solve it because they will try to solve it.

Fish are never once listed in the facts of the riddle and therefore not part of the riddle. The riddle itself is that you have no way of knowing what the German has for a pet as there are only four pets listed.

In any problem of this nature you must, according to logic, have a statement of fact in order to make a deduction or conclusion that has validity. This is a basic rule of logic.

The only reason people assume Fish are a pet is that it is listed in the question which can just as easily read, “Who owns the Sheep.”

By: Jenni

Jenni — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 03:08:55 +0000

I find it odd that your chart is all wrong yet your conclusion is right.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:22:53 +0000

i dont know who decided to post this solution but anyone can guess who has the fish you have a 1 in 5 shot the idea of the riddle is to get it all to prove out and this graph posted is completly wrong i proved this riddle in 20 minutes and i havent seen an explanation that has a graph this wrong until now, there are two ways to come up with the answer the first is the simplest and easiest…..Einstein is german and he owns a fish, the second is to graph it out and if you do this you have to use an untrained mind, Einstein says 5 houses but never says what side your looking at them from if you put the Norwegians house first your going to have no chance of solving it, but if you look at the 5 houses from across the street with the dead end to your left and the entrance to your right the first house is…..the right one, working right to left you can solve it, Einstein is known to promote free thinking and was quoted to not be into taught thinking it traps the mind using this tool its easy to see how he did this, for a harder answer he did this mathematically using numerals as colors and so on to prove the fish was equal to german google the pic and see him in front of a blackboard with a math problem leading to german=fish, the easiest way to solve this is to write each thing on a small peice of paper then you can move everything around as needed but the graph should list things in this order from right to left as said earlier,, yellow, norwegian, water,dunhill,cats, then next house is blue, dane,tea ,blends,horses then its is red, brit,milk,pall mall,birds then white , swede,beer,bluemaster,dogs and then , green , german, coffee,prince, fish the way the graph here is done indicates someone guessed the answer because simple things given in the riddle like the brit in the red house arent even correct here, mensa will not be calling lol

By: Dane's are awesome

Dane's are awesome — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:00:51 +0000

Well, it know this really aint got much to do with the riddle but… WTF??
Why are we yellow, is it because we have a little city in Skagen where all the houses are yellow and red? And i bet you, we’ve got horses but not that many…

And daim we do not drink water, we drink BEER!

But otherwise good job

By: Admin

Admin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 02:00:17 +0000

Matt, I’m gald that you enjoyed Einsteins riddle. That’s a very good point about whether you’re point of view is looking down on the houses from behind or from the front of them. It’s something to be considered if it hasn’t been specified in the original riddle. However by deduction you can work out the correct point of view if the one you’re considering reaches a premature end before the riddle is solved. On the other hand if you do reach a solution then you know you had the right perspective.

Would you be interested if I posted more riddles fo a similar level of complexity?