[AccessD] OT- Ftiday Humor (Einstein Quiz)

Gustav Brock gustav at cactus.dk
Sun Feb 9 05:49:00 CST 2003


Hi Oleg

That was great fun, though I doubt that so few should be able to solve
it - it's only a matter of taking a piece of paper and go through the
rules over and over until you have narrowed it in - and guessing
doesn't do it here, as that - of course - would indicate the Norwegian
to be the fish owner!

/gustav


> Its not really a joke, but I think some (who haven't seen it before may
> find it fun) Got the same answer as a girl I know, so hope, its' correct..
> :)
> ----------------------------------------

> There are 5 houses in five different colors. In each house lives a person
> with a different nationality. These five owners drink a certain drink,
> 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 drink. The
> question is --- who owns the fish?

> Hints:

> - 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 owner drinks coffee
> - the person who smokes Pall Mal rears birds
> - the owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
> - the man living in the house right in the center 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 one 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 neighbor who drinks water


> *** Einstein wrote this quiz last century. He said that 98% of the World
> could not figure it out. ***




More information about the AccessD mailing list