riddle
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d@nish wrote:
similar logic
Is that the "The fact that X is able to make a choice implies that the only possible choice for Y is 'choice a' ?"
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All the houses are the same colour (blue) - they are just moving away from our reference frame so fast that the light reaching us from them appears shifted up the spectrum.
All the owners have horses as pet it's just the distance between us and the houses that the pets appear to be cat, fish goat etc
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All the owners have horses as pet it's just the distance between us and the houses that the pets appear to be cat, fish goat etc
Dr Schrodinger owns the cat - although I haven't seen it for a while. I wonder if it's OK?
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Dr Schrodinger owns the cat - although I haven't seen it for a while. I wonder if it's OK?
Well I can't tell anything about Dr Schrodinger, but Einstein himself was one of the five house owners who used to drink milk I guess. Pertaining to his geniusness ;P
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Probably most of you cán solve this, despite it is rumoured only 2% can. I once read you should do this without "pencil and paper", so perhaps that's where the 2% comes from. Anyways first time I saw this I took the pencil and paper and got to work. It took me about 30-40 minutes to complete. How long did it take you (the first time?) Einstein's riddle The situation There are 5 houses in five different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These five 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 horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill the owner who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer the German smokes Prince the Norwegian lives next to the blue house the man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water
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Probably most of you cán solve this, despite it is rumoured only 2% can. I once read you should do this without "pencil and paper", so perhaps that's where the 2% comes from. Anyways first time I saw this I took the pencil and paper and got to work. It took me about 30-40 minutes to complete. How long did it take you (the first time?) Einstein's riddle The situation There are 5 houses in five different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These five 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 horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill the owner who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer the German smokes Prince the Norwegian lives next to the blue house the man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water
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(MQOTD rules and previous solutions)Well that's easy...
V. wrote:
The question is: Who owns the fish?
Answer: None of them. One has dogs, one has birds, one has cats, one has horses, and the fifth? None of those hints said anything about fish, so for all we know, he has gerbils. And that took about ten seconds :)
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Johnny J. wrote:
Thre should be a zebra in there somewhere!
I had a zebra curry a couple of months ago. Very nice it was too.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
As long as it took Google to find the answer after I'd registered my disgust at the perpetuation of the myths that a) this has anything to do with Einstein b) it's a riddle c) it's solvable (like my esteemed colleague says - there ain't no fish!!!) d) only Mensa qualifying IQs can achieve the given answer e) it contains free advertising for tobacco :suss: Puzzles of this kind predate Einstein's birth (I haven't yet been able to establish whether the great Dudeney has an example but I wouldn't be surprised) and the easiest way to solve them is not purely by logic.
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d@nish wrote:
similar logic
Is that the "The fact that X is able to make a choice implies that the only possible choice for Y is 'choice a' ?"
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What is the average velocity of a swallow carrying a coconut? :rolleyes:
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Well that's easy...
V. wrote:
The question is: Who owns the fish?
Answer: None of them. One has dogs, one has birds, one has cats, one has horses, and the fifth? None of those hints said anything about fish, so for all we know, he has gerbils. And that took about ten seconds :)
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)