Einstein's Riddle

[Boris Popov]

"Bruce Elrick" <belrick at home.com> wrote in message
news:3AABE712.499CCF4C at home.com...
> I swear there is no evidence that any of them own a fish.  The German
> owns an emu.
>
> Bruce

I am missing something then. I thought my table satisfies all given
statements and it has fish right under the german...

-Boris
P.S. What's emu ?

>
> 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 ? :)