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Einsteins Riddle. Can you solve?

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a man with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

The question is: "Who owns the fish?"

Hints:

The Brit lives in the red house.

The Swede keeps dogs as pets.

The Dane drinks tea.

The green house is on the 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 the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.

The owner who smokes Bluemasters 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.

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    It's simple, the German keeps the fish

    PS. Fun question !!! More more more :-)

  • I solved this a couple of weeks ago. (You may ask for the proof and I send you one).

    This riddle is attributed to Einstien (not for sure) towards end of 19th century and he claimed that only 2 % of world population could solve this riddle. I tried to solve this just to prove him wrong and I DID it, because I don't belong to 2% world population of that time ::))

    And O did I forget to tell the answer? Its German who keeps fish as pet.

    Source(s): My Head Office; my brain.
  • its the German for sure

  • 1 decade ago

    It's the German! I wasn't first, but I did figure it out on my own and I have to say that was the best riddle I have ever worked on! Thanks!

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  • edoedo
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    i would said german.

  • 1 decade ago

    GERMAN!!

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