Einstein's Riddle

[Petasis George]

sulfugor wrote:
> 
> 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) ?
> 
Yes, that the problem: it implies, it does not states :-)
It took me about 20 minutes to solve it
(with paper+pencil of-course :-))...

George