A riddle that Albert Einstein made up himself will help you get better at solving puzzles. According to the story, Einstein wrote this hard logic puzzle when he was young, and he thought that only 2% of people who tried to answer it would be able to do so.
Even though there isn't strong proof that Einstein came up with it and somehow knew exactly how many people would get it right, it's still a very strange puzzle. Also, these strange brain teasers can help you get smarter.
Here’s the setup: There are five houses, each painted a different color. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These five 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 cigar, or drink the same beverage.
The question is, who owns the fish?
Here are the clues:
- The Brit lives in the 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’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 horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
- The owner who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer
- The German smokes Prince
- The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
- The man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water
Take some time and think it over. Draw out each house. Make a chart for each category, if you want to get really detailed. (Trust us, you do.) Stumped? Try solving these riddles for kids. Not all of us can be Einstein.
Do you know who owns the fish? Watch the video below to see if you’re right.
Do you really think we're going to give away the answer? If you can cheat on one of the hardest logic puzzles in the world, why would we let you?