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Kate
Lv 6
Kate asked in Education & ReferenceTrivia · 1 decade ago

Can you answer this 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 next to, and 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

Update:

Sorry unpredicktaboh...

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.

Update 2:

The German owns the fish.

http://www.manbottle.com/popular/einstein_s_riddle

Thanks to everyone who answered !

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    The German

    Hi, its me again. Kate busted me. I googled it too. Sorry.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The German in the green house who drinks coffee owns the fish. Tricky riddle!

  • 1 decade ago

    The German lives in the 4th house, drinks coffee, smokes Prince's and has fish.

    OK, OK, I looked it up, gave me a headache trying to figure it out and I still don't see how he came up with it...Then again we're talking about Einstein!!

  • 1 decade ago

    I googled it, and the Answer is the German.I myself have never figured it out. It was written by Einstein, so you pretty much have to be a genius and have a lot of time on your hands. but here is the site I found the answer on: http://www.manbottle.com/trivia/einstein_s_riddle/...

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  • 1 decade ago

    Too long to sit & figure out. I need some instant gratification

  • 1 decade ago

    they all own fish cause it was on sale for 299 perpound salmon steaks at the local supewrmarket

  • 1 decade ago

    i tried my hardest man, the Dane

  • 1 decade ago

    umagawd i had to do one of these in home freakin ec

  • 1 decade ago

    no one ! Am i right??? this is such a hard riddle or whatever it is i think its no one though

  • Nathan
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    The fish is dead, we flushed him...

    Poor thing...

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