Here's a puzzle from Coudal Partners, titled "Whose Fish?" supposedly created by Albert Einstein:
This brainteaser, reportedly written by Einstein is difficult and Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world could not figure it out. Which percentage are you in?
There are five houses in a row in different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.
The question is-- who owns the fish?
Hints:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.There are no tricks, pure logic will get you the correct answer. And yes, there is enough information to arrive at the one and only correct answer.
Sure enough, Coudal has the answer (and another puzzle for those smart enough to figure this one out): Link
Brit red house birds milk pall malls
Swede white house dog beer bluemasters
Dane blue house horses tea blends
Norwe. yellow house cats water Dunhills
German green house walleye coffee Princes
http://www.coudal.com/thefish.php
Happy Holidays from the CP Crew.
Psst to Becki: the clues aren't in the order you need them. Start with number 10.
http://blog.cognitivelabs.com/2006/12/brainteaster-by-albert-einstein.html
check out http://wamp.ath.cx/sites/wamp/fishie.xls
Now, how nerdy is it to say that that significantly affects the answer to the question?
I can believe that Einstein created the puzzle phrased the other way, and the German would be the incorrect answer!
As for another method for solving solve, the image below is the way we always solved them.
Clue #10, The Norwegian lives in the first house, is filled in the example. Start plotting all the givens, and then start connecting the relationships:
http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/3313/puzzlevu1.jpg
einstein is from germany so isnt logical that german have fish :D
i didnt get anything for like 10mins, and once i started the problem was easy :D