h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is a special question for everyone... well... if you have already seen this puzzle and solved it... or read the answer somewhere when you couldn't solve it then please don't spoil it for others... give it a try and see if you can do... ALBERT EINSTEIN'S RIDDLE...

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A note from Albert...
"I WROTE THIS RIDDLE DURING THE EARLY 19th CENTURY. I STATE THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT. ARE YOU IN THE TOP 2% OF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD? SOLVE THE RIDDLE AND FIND OUT."

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THE RIDDLE...


There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke
different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

1. The Brit lives in a 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 owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.


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Use this forum to discuss your theories... have fun...

P.S.
This is not part of the H2IQ Quiz... just one of those questions to get your mind working...

Greebs.. xx

*bookmarking, deep in thought*

The German in Green house number 4 drinks coffee, smokes Prince and keeps fish...

Probably (Assuming that the 'first house' is the one on the left, otherwise I'll have to start again )

Deja vu moment! This was posted in the 'New Day in the Quiz...' thread 3 days ago! Was it just mentioned in the paper or did Mycroft and Greebo both spontaneously look it up?

Nooooooooooooooooooooh, not again!!

I thought that Einstein teaching himself calculus by age 10 was impressive, but it seems he composed this many decades before is own birth, if he indeed did so during the early 19th century.

I saw this on Andinqti as well, so I'd best not answer.

I could not resist it.
You are right, Danny B

I would first like to point out that Einstein could not have wortten this in the early 19th century, because the early 19th century means the early 1800's. Einstein did not live to be more than a hundred. Therefore, as Einstein was alive in the 1950s, he was not aliove in the early 1800s.

Anyway, that said.....

The German owns the fish.

The first house is the yellow house, wherein resides the Norweigan, who drinks water, smokes Dunhill, and owns cats.
The second house is the blue house, wherein resides the Dane, who drinks tea, smokes Blends, and keeps horses.
The third and middle house is red, wherein lives the Brit, who drinks milk, smokes Pall Mall, and keeps birds.
The fourth house is where the German lives, who drinks coffee, smokes Prince, and must own the fish because he is the only one without pets (by the end of the logical conundrum), and this is the only empty "pet" spot.
The last house is white, where the Swede lives, who drinks beer, smokes Blue Master, and keeps dogs.

I haven't seen this before, but I've worked on problems of a similar nature. Am I on the ball?

Dammit, I'm late again.

Can't we have some sort of warning about when each quiz is going to be posted???

You forgot the German being in the green house, but that was obvious, as it was the last colour.

And don't ask for rythm in Greebo's timing, that's one of the charms.
You just have to be lucky, and very fast. Normally the first answer comes within seconds.

Nah, being in the right place at the right time is half the battle It's just typical that, now that I've got one right, it's not part of the quiz and won't earn me a point...

Hey ho...

Well, yes. German in Green.

I feel I'm at a disadvantage here... I'm not in a position, nor do I have a type of connection, that allows me to immediately spot a new question. I can't be permanently connected, and even if I am I have to go to class and whatnot, so if I at least knew *when* to log on and start circling around waiting for the question, I could try to be there...

*sigh* oh well. Maybe I'llo come across it by sheer dumb luck one of these days.

Sounds like you have the same kind of problems as the rest of us - we can't be online 24/7.

(At least not *each* day! )

My pc can be online 24/7, but alas, I cannot be behind it all the time

You can't?

Bear in mind that being an h2g2 addictive carries some responsibilities, such as staying up half night although having to go to w*rk next day...

I agree with the German having the fish, but...

according to statement number 4 and assuming an enummeration from left to right, the white house cannot be Number five, can it?

So I say the German lives in number 5 in the green house, drinking coffee and smoking PM, while the Swede resides in the white house number 4, owning dogs, drinking (expensive) beer and smoking Blue Master.

HP
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Sure it can. It's the green house that cannot be number 5, for then the white house has to be 6.

I solved it when I got it for the first time, but the person who sent it to me said he doesn't know if it really is A.I's question.

Did A.I really definitely write the question?


Dancer

AI?
you don't mean AE? i'm sure his intelligence wasn't artificial...
anyway, the answer, as worked out by me, using microsoft publisher... :
house----- house--- house---green house--- house
norwegian--------dane----------brit--------german--------swede
----------------horse---------bird-------------------
water----------------------milk---------------------
dunhill------------blends------pall mall-----prince--------blue master

^. .^
= ' =

For Green house you could have used , or .
The answer is already on many places anyhow.