Einstein wrote this quiz last century. He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz. http://www.business.uiuc.edu/broker/iq.htm Step 1. Create a matrix of 5 houses by 5 characteristics. Use Excel. Step 3. Fill in the next few clues that can easily fit into the matrix. Step 4. Work out the houses that can fit the remaining clues Swede, dog: 4 or 5 By elimination, the German must live in house 4, the Swede in 5 and the Dane in 2. Step 5. Now fill in the remaining clues. Answer: The German keeps the fish Full answers at: http://www.macchetta.com/manolo/344/2007/einstein-quiz-solved.html
There are 5 houses in 5 different colors
In each house lives a person with a different nationality
These 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 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.
Here's the question: Who owns the fish?
Technique to solve this quiz
Step 2. Fill in the clues that can fit into a specific house.
House 1 2 3 4 5 Colour Blue People Norw Drink Milk Smoke Pet
House 1 2 3 4 5 Colour Yellow Blue Red Green White People Norw Brit Drink Milk Coffee Smoke Dunhill Pet Horse
Dane, tea: 2 or 5
PMall, bird: 3, 4 or 5
BMaster, beer 2 or 5
German, prince 2, 4 or 5
House 1 2 3 4 5 Colour Yellow Blue Red Green White People Norw Dane Brit German Swede Drink Tea Milk Coffee Smoke Dunhill Prince Pet Horse Dog
House 1 2 3 4 5 Colour Yellow Blue Red Green White People Norw Dane Brit German Swede Drink Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer Smoke Dunhill Blend PMall Prince BMaster Pet Cat Horse Bird Dog
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