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FLII ME
03-04-2002, 04:13 PM
...are you in the top 2%?
Einstein wrote this riddle earlier this century and he said that 98% of the population could not solve it. read on... i have my doubts as to the 98% figure, but i know some of you like stuff like this and i thought i'd post it.... i was able to complete it but i will let you guys post the answers.... (Koty'sdad will probably have this knocked out in no time....)

1) there are 5 houses in five different colours
2) in each house lives a person with a different nationality
3) these 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet
4) no owner has the same pet, smoke the same cigar or drink the same beverage

...the question is...
WHO OWNS THE FISH?

hints:
*the Brit lives in the red house
*the Sweed keeps dogs as pets
*the Dane drinks tea
*the green is left of the white house
*the green house's owner drinks coffee
*the person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
*the owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
*the man living in the center house drinks milk
*the Norwegian lives in the first house
*the man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
*the man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes
Dunhill
*the owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer
*the German smokes Prince
*the Norwegian lives next to the blue house
*the man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water

(p.s. if you don't want to know the answer before you try it for yourself, don't scroll down as you would certainly find it..

wingwop
03-04-2002, 09:30 PM
Okay, this was pretty cool. I'm not ABSOLUTELY SURE that I got it right. I think I did, but it took me about a half an hour and I started gettting lazy. I basically used the process of elimination to deduce the owner of the fish. I haven't gone back to see if my answers could be changed and it still work out. Anyway, my answer is the.... (I'm private mailing it to you. I'm on the lookout for cheats!!)


I'm gonna go back and see if it would work another way. It's really not a HARD riddle it's just very slow and tedious. Of course, I could be wrong for all I know. Anyway, my answers are all correct in conforming to the lead in questions. Private message me with the response. If I'm wrong, tell me I'm wrong, not who it is. Tkx!!

Mario

wingwop
03-04-2002, 09:46 PM
I was right!! I'm gonna write that according to Einstein, I'm of the top 2% of the population!!! HAHA. Hey FLII ME, what do I win?

It took about 30 minutes though.

FLII ME
03-04-2002, 09:48 PM
You win a HOT DOG with MAYO!!!!!

wingwop
03-04-2002, 09:50 PM
Mayo? I thought you Canadians did hotdogs with Vinegar?? HAHA
JK!!

Captain Jeff
03-05-2002, 02:36 PM
I did this test about 2 years ago and over a period of period of 2 days or so, 10 minutes here, 5 minutes there kind of thing, and I did get it. Just takes patience and helps to write it down..:D

Jeff
:)