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From: "Steve Graham" <js.graham@home.com>
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A variety of answers has been posted at
http://members.home.net/js.graham/einstein/index.html.

Steve Graham

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"Steve Graham" <js.graham@home.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
>
>
>
>