Einstein's Riddle

[sulfugor]

Gregory Jorgensen wrote in message ...
>The 2% that can solve it must be psychic or deranged. The riddle as posed
is not
>solvable.
>
>We are told of five houses anf five people. The hints mention five colors
(red,
>green, white, yellow, blue), five drinks (tea, coffee, milk, beer, water),
five
>smokes (Pall Mall, Dunhill, Blends, Bluemaster, Prince), and five
nationalities
>(Brit, Swede, Dane, Norwegian, German). But only four types of pet are
>mentioned: dogs, birds, cats, horse. We have no evidence that any of the
five
>owns fish.


But the fish is mentionned in the question before the clues are given. We
are able to find who owns each of the 4 pets mentionned in the hint list. is
it so unreasonable to assume then that the last pet is a fish, since we were
asked about it ? The question IMplied that one of the 5 people owned a fish.

sulfugor

ps = by the way, how long is this supposed to take ( solving the riddle) ?



>
>More telling: how many people can't quickly determine that this puzzle is
>unsolvable?
>
>
>In article <oNPq6.396644$ge4.138479566 at news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>, Steve
Graham
>says...
>>
>>Who would be interested in using his/her brain (and his computer) to solve
>>the following?
>>
>>
>>Steve Graham
>>
>>===
>>
>>Einstein's Riddle
>>
>>Albert Einstein wrote this riddle this century [ed. 20th century].  He
said
>>98% of the world could not solve it.
>>
>>There are 5 houses in 5 different colors.  In each house lives a person
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 Sweed 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.
>
>Greg Jorgensen
>Deschooling Society
>Portland, Oregon, USA
>gregj at pobox.com