Einstein's Riddle

[Bruce Elrick]

I swear there is no evidence that any of them own a fish.  The German
owns an emu.

Bruce

Boris Popov wrote:
> 
> "Steve Graham" <js.graham at home.com> wrote in message
> news:oNPq6.396644$ge4.138479566 at news2.rdc2.tx.home.com...
> > 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.
> >
> 
> I don't beleive he said that only 2% of the world could solve it. It's not
> hard, you just need to pay attention to the details. The German owns the
> fish. It was supposed to be a table that I used to layout all the details,
> but I prefer to post plain-text:
> 
> house         1 2 3 4 5
> color            yellow blue red green white
> nationality   norweigian dane brit german swede
> drink            water tea milk coffee beer
> smoke        dunhill blend pall mall prince bluemaster
> pet              cats horse birds fish dogs
> 
> -Boris
> P.S. Did I have to write software to solve it ? :)