The fish experiment by Jonas

Here’s something for the weekend. Are you one of the 121,348,731 smartest people in the world? In that case you probably know the answer to the following nutcracker. which was allegedly written by Einstein…

To involve your friends and collegues Coudal partners has a printable pdf version of it.

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.

That’s all. Good luck!

If some of you breaks it put your answer in the comments or send an answer to Coudal partners and get a chance to win those awsome Pixies discs!

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October 4, 2007 / 3 Comments.

3 Comments

  1. Pelle replied:

    I think it was a german :) I found en Excel-sheet to be most useful to solve this ;)

    October 4th, 2007 at 8:40 pm. Permalink.

  2. Niklas replied:

    So 98% of the people in the world can not figure this out? I guess they not patient enough… Or, the other way around, saying it is the German who owns the fish puts me in the small 2% group that is dumb enough to spend time on such things as this … :)

    October 5th, 2007 at 9:20 am. Permalink.

  3. Jonas replied:

    Update: Pelle, well done! German is of course true. I was wrong with my original comment, since the fifth pet here is a Walley Pike, which is a fish.

    Thanks to Björn for pointing this out. My bad.

    Original comment:

    The logical answer of this experiment if of course German, as Pelle answered.

    BUT this is not the right answer, since nowhere in the problem is the word fish found. So even if the German has the fifth pet you have to assume that it\’s a fish, when it as likely could be any other animal.

    Correct answer: You have no idea if anyone keeps a fish or not. Never stop questioning!

    October 6th, 2007 at 4:08 pm. Permalink.

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