Jim DeMarco
Jdemarco at hshhp.org
Wed Feb 12 07:37:00 CST 2003
If you base your answers on the hints then it might be safe to say this was an exercise in futility. There was not a hint that one person owned a fish, just the question "Who owns the fish?". Taking the hints as *facts* we can determine that the German's pet is unknown but we do not fully know that it's a fish (could be sheep for all the information we're given). Maybe I watch too much detective television :-) Thanks, Jim DeMarco -----Original Message----- From: Drew Wutka [mailto:DWUTKA at marlow.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 1:22 AM To: 'accessd at databaseadvisors.com' Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT- Ftiday Humor (Einstein Quiz) Okay, I am late going through all the posts, and I really did not cheat. My answer is the German. It logically works out with this: House: Yellow Bluw Red Green White Race: Norw. Dane Brit German Swede Drink: Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer Smoke: Dunhill Blend PM's Prince BlueMaster Pet: Cats Horse Bird ----- Dogs Which leaves the German with the fish. (Logically this is wrong since the German should be drinking beer). The logic I had for this was based on the house placement. Green is next to white. The Norwegian is in the first house, and next to blue. This negates the first house as being Green, nor the Norwegian living in either the Green, White or Blue house. Since the Brit lives in the Red house, the Norwegian must live in the Yellow. The Green house owner drinks coffee, , and it says that the man in the center drinks milk, so that means that the green house can't be in the center. Thus, the possible house placements are: Y B R G W G W R B Y R G W B Y (Can't tell if first means left or right). But, the last one doesn't work out, and the first one did. (Didn't bother with the middle since the first one worked!) I know it's not Friday anymore, but this was fun. (It took 30 or 40 minutes...and I almost was going to write a few classes to try to program it...but I just used Excel.) Hopefully someone posts the 'official' answer. (Only 208 more posts to go!) Drew -----Original Message----- From: Oleg_123 at xuppa.com [mailto:Oleg_123 at xuppa.com] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 5:15 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [AccessD] OT- Ftiday Humor (Einstein Quiz) 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. *** ----------------------------------------- Send a Xuppa Valentine to Your Sweetheart today! http://www.xuppa.com/greet/ _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com *********************************************************************************** "This electronic message is intended to be for the use only of the named recipient, and may contain information from HealthSource/Hudson Health Plan (HS/HHP) that is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error or are not the named recipient, please notify us immediately, either by contacting the sender at the electronic mail address noted above or calling HS/HHP at (914) 631-1611. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not forward this email to anyone, and delete and destroy all copies of this message. Thank You". ***********************************************************************************