samedi, novembre 26, 2005

The Einstein Problem

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish ?
The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.
Einstein had predicted only 2% of the world can solve this problem. Haha..and guess what? I'm one of the 2%. Try to do it..it's really fun..I complete it in about 45 mins. Don't cheat! the answer can be found easily in Yahoo or Google.
I think Einstein predict wrongly..I'm sure more than 2% of the world can solve this problem..just need a lot of patience, common sense and systematic thinking..