Einstein's Riddle

From: "nu-monet v4.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Reply-To: like.excess@sex.org
Date: Sun, Feb 17, 2002

The question posed by Einstein was:

"Who keeps the fish?"

In a street there are 5 houses painted 5 different colors.
In each house lives a person of a different nationality.
The 5 homeowners each drink a different beverage,
smoke a different brand of cigar, and keep a different pet.

The question is: Who keeps the fish?

HINTS:

1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede has a dog.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes pall mall has birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes blends lives next to the one who has cats.
11. The man who has horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhills.
12. The man 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 blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

Albert Einstein wrote this riddle in the early 20th century.
He said that 98% of the population would not be able to solve it.
Good luck.

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you to send your son to die for him.
Christianity is a faith in which God sends
his son to die for you."
--Attorney General John Ashcroft
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From: "LXIX" <post_replys_please@this.address.is.invalid>

"nu-monet v4.0" wrote ...
> The question is: Who keeps the fish?

I know.. but no sense in spoiling the riddle for everyone else.

That is a fun puzzle though.

--LXIX--
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From: dode <dode(pee)@tystie.com>

Sir Dr. Rev. Siegfried The Red wrote:

> I learned this one in high school (government schools are good for
> something, especially when it comes to the MGIHTY EINSTEINISH GOD,
> ORSON
> WELLES! HAIL ORSON! HAIL ORSON!). Anyway, the way we learned to
> do it was to create tokens for house color, nationality, drink,
> cigarette and pet. Get a piece of paper and draw five empty houses
> to put stuff in when you know for sure you got it, five grouping
> areas labeled 1-5 for stuff that you know the order of but not
> other things, and a big place to put grouped stuff for when you
> have groupings but don't know what order they will go in.
> DON'T MAKE ANY GUESSES. Just go through each clue one at a time
> in order
> and group things according to what they say. After you go through
> all the
> clues, go through them again. I think you have to go through the
> whole sequence four or five times before you get down to the fish
> being the only
> thing left to place. Then you'll know.
>
> The important things are:
>
> 1. Make a good worksheet and good counters to keep all the shit
> organized in your head.
> 2. Go through all the clues, in order, one at a time. If it
> tells you
> something for sure, act on it. If that clue doesn't give you
> enough information (to where you would have to make a guess as to
> position or something) don't act on it, just go to the next clue.
> 3. Be patient. After going through the list a few times, it will
> all work out logically.
>

I'm glad you wrote that coz I was going to beat my head offa a wall
under I suffered a seizure and was either inspired or brain damaged
beyond giving a flying fuck about a stoopid fucking problem that is
only ever trotted out by sad crystal waving leftbrainrightbran
management consultant types in an effort to prove WRONGLY that you
have to start messing with charts and counters and BEANIE babies in
order to solve the same porblem that they gave you last team
building weekend.

1. Kill the problem setting eigenstein, in a tidy methodical
manner, live dissection or cummalitive poisoning are good options.
2. Get a clue, get a life, or don't give a fuck.
3. No punctuation, not in my Laundromat.

Doh'dt Cotton

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doh'd
change the pee to p for email.
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From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)

"nu-monet v4.0" <nothing@succeeds.com> hunched over a computer, typing
feverishly;
thunder crashed, "nu-monet v4.0" <nothing@succeeds.com> laughed madly,
then wrote:

>The question posed by Einstein was:
>
>"Who keeps the fish?"

I do.

I have a gun.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com

Q: what is the value of a good idea ?
A: Why, it's worth it's weight in gold where I work
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From: "Sir Dr. Rev. Siegfried The Red" <spammersdiesiegfried1@mediaone.net>

Yeah, but what if it's YOUR problem and you WANT to solve it?

Of course, you could always PAY someone to solve it for you. I work at $350
an hour. But if your loaded, problem solved. That's a good option

The other option of course is to FORCE someone to solve it for you. That
won't work on me, because I'm a NINJA!!!! MWHAAHAAHAAAHAAAHHAAA!!!!! I kill
stuff and totally flip out while being totally SWEET. But if your guns are
big enough and the other guy is a merehuman, once again, problem solved.

And remember, some people actually ENJOY problems like this. Most of them
program C++ for a living.

But your point is well taken.

"dode" <dode(pee)@tystie.com> wrote in message
news:1013975480.7419.0.nnrp-13.9e9888c3@news.demon.co.uk...
> I'm glad you wrote that coz I was going to beat my head offa a wall
> under I suffered a seizure and was either inspired or brain damaged
> beyond giving a flying fuck about a stoopid fucking problem that is
> only ever trotted out by sad crystal waving leftbrainrightbran
> management consultant types in an effort to prove WRONGLY that you
> have to start messing with charts and counters and BEANIE babies in
> order to solve the same porblem that they gave you last team
> building weekend.
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From: Glenn Knickerbocker <NotR@bestweb.net>

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:22:48 GMT, nu-monet v4.0 wrote:
>In a street there are 5 houses painted 5 different colors.
>2. The Swede has a dog.

FILTHY LIAR! No Swede lives in one of
5 houses painted 5 different colors!

!R Q: HOW MANY RIFTS DOES IT TAKE TO ROB PONCHO? A: TWO
TO EXILE PONCHO AND FIVE TO SUFFER. --SIR DOSENT (257 CE)
http://www.leonatkinson.com/random/index.php3?SCREEN=comic
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From: mumthra@yoo-ess-ay.net (Mumthra)

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:22:48 GMT, "nu-monet v4.0"
<nothing@succeeds.com> wrote:

>The question posed by Einstein was:
>
>"Who keeps the fish?"

Yippee!!! I LOVE THESE. I used to waste part of every Sunday doing a
different logic puzzle. Thankee, thankee.

I owe you a buck!

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From: "The Not Quite Sane One" <klyf3-hahnospamneenerneener-@juno.com>

"Sir Dr. Rev. Siegfried The Red" <spammersdiesiegfried1@mediaone.net> wrote in
message news:nyTb8.1849$Or3.337336@typhoon.mn.ipsvc.net...
> 1. Make a good worksheet and good counters to keep all the shit organized
> in your head.

Ah. I was taught to just make a grid with all the variables across the top and
down the sides.
You put in x in any box where the corresponding variables don't match up.
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From: "The Not Quite Sane One" <klyf3-hahnospamneenerneener-@juno.com>

"LXIX" <post_replys_please@this.address.is.invalid> wrote in message
news:6fYb8.414951$8w3.104768277@typhoon.kc.rr.com...
> "headkase" wrote ...
>
> > but where do i find if i am right
>
> http://www.euchred.com/einstein_riddle.htm
>
> :)

Hint: put everything in lowercase.

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From: HellPope Huey <hellpopehuey@subspamgeenyus.com>

I'd rather keep the burrito. Its tastier, keeps better in the fridge and
doesn't stank like the rotting privates of some Rockette who went downhill and
wound up in a Jersey trailer park, smelling like the people she watches on
Springer.

HellPope Huey, hellpopehuey@subgenius.com
Nine-Inch Brain: Pretty Pope Machine

"It was news to her that people
keep goats in their kitchens,
throw soiled Pampers out car windows and
use the ditch beside the road
for the family Maytag."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"I've seen her go through
bake sale brownies like a wood chipper."
- "King of the Hill"

"Oh BOY, buffalo testicles!"
- Homer
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From: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)

write2mrs_babymash@yahoo.com (Mrs Babymash) hunched over a computer,
typing feverishly;
thunder crashed, write2mrs_babymash@yahoo.com (Mrs Babymash) laughed
madly, then wrote:

>Fuck me swinging if nu-monet v4.0 didn't just say...:
>
>>HINTS:
>>
>>2. The Swede has a dog.
>>3. The Dane drinks tea.
>
>The Swede's dog IS a Dane!

And the Dane drinks the Swede.

--
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turtle.

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