Who owns the fish?
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This brainteaser, reportedly written by Einstein is difficult and Einstein said that 98% of people in the world could not figure it out.
What percentage are you in?
There are five houses in a row in different colours. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is Walleye Pike.
The question?
Who owns the fish?
1. The Brit lives in the 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 Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the centre drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.
There are no tricks, pure logic will get you to the correct answer and there is enough information to arrive at the one and only correct answer.
if you get the correct answer congratulations, you are one of the exclusive group of 121,348,731 people in the world who can.
What percentage are you in?
There are five houses in a row in different colours. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is Walleye Pike.
The question?
Who owns the fish?
1. The Brit lives in the 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 Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the centre drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.
There are no tricks, pure logic will get you to the correct answer and there is enough information to arrive at the one and only correct answer.
if you get the correct answer congratulations, you are one of the exclusive group of 121,348,731 people in the world who can.
That's what I did 1st time I saw it.shadytree said:
1 Norweigen, yellow, water, dunhill, cats,
2 Dane, Blue, Tea, Blends, Horses
3 Brit, Red, Milk, Pall Mall, Birds
4 German, green, Coffee, prince FISH
5 Swede, White, Beer, Blue, Master, Dogs
Yup I got that too...
Although I'm suprised a bunch of kids did.
Or looking forward to the future of the world run by hyper intelli.....
No...they must have nicked the answers.
actually, its cos people who are used to being told their stoopid have no fear of being continually called stoopid. therefore, they arent afraid to draw little diagrams that help them work it out. whereas brainy types want to show off and work it out in there massive, knowledge filled heads.
speed8 said:
1 Norweigen, yellow, water, dunhill, cats,
2 Dane, Blue, Tea, Blends, Horses
3 Brit, Red, Milk, Pall Mall, Birds
4 German, green, Coffee, prince FISH
5 Swede, White, Beer, Bluemaster, Dogs
Snap
I got the right answer but the colour houses for the Swede and German the other way round?
blue 4.5 said:4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
shadytree said:
1 Norweigen, yellow, water, dunhill, cats,
2 Dane, Blue, Tea, Blends, Horses
3 Brit, Red, Milk, Pall Mall, Birds
4 German, green, Coffee, prince FISH
5 Swede, White, Beer, Bluemaster, Dogs
Snap
I got the right answer but the colour houses for the Swede and German the other way round?
nervous said:
interestingly, i ran this test with a group of 'excluded' kids last year, and 8 out of the 14 got it right. just goes to show that genius isnt obvious, huh?
just goes to show that mainstream education is failing our brightest children.
The kids are our future scientist and explorers.Kids who question things and for that they are punished with exclusion from a decent education..
Really gets my back up....:angry:
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