SRL Archive - NOTA

Einstein wrote this quiz last century. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz.

1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colors
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 owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.

Here's the question: Who owns the fish?

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 green house owner 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 house right in the middle drinks milk
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill
12. The owner 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 Blend has a neighbor who drinks water

With these 15 clues the problem is solvable.

source: http://www.business.uiuc.edu/broker/iq.htm

I finally got it after ~35 minutes :)
How fast are you? Or are you one of those 98%?

No spoilers, please. If you insist on posting the answer, hide it somewhere :p

:p. I figured it out, after around 20 minutes. Einstein such a joker..

http://erewhon.homedns.org/games/einsteinsquizans.html

Google is my friend :rolleyes:

I'm sorry that I'm not in your 2% :( had to use google :p

Although I know I'm in the top 20% in Wiltshire ;)

I've done this one before.. I figured it out.. Did take me some time though :-p

the problem is making the big chart thing (like this
I started making one on paper, but after i realized that it needs like 4 rows and columns, i quit. If i already had one made i would do it.

Use a spreadsheet (go to OpenOffice.org if you don't have one) and you can solve it in less than 15 minutes. Input the clues into several temp tables, and then have the actual answer table. The temp tables will then overlap into the final the table in only one configuration, there's your answer.

From: Dan Cardin
the problem is making the big chart thing (like this
I started making one on paper, but after i realized that it needs like 4 rows and columns, i quit. If i already had one made i would do it.

Like mentioned above the only reason why this would be considered "hard" is if the person is unfamiliar with the concept of using a chart like that one otherwise I think it would take a very long time to solve.

Took awhile but I got it :D

Aha! I solved it :D

The trick is to make a little table and start writing stuff down. Write what you know and just keep working at it and make changes along the way until everything fits.

lol, i drew 5 houses in notepad and got it in about 30 mins :) fun stuff.

10 minutes ftw- did it while i was eating lunch, made a makeshift chart in notepad ftw im check my answer with google now :D