Henry Simpson
hsimpson88 at hotmail.com
Fri Feb 14 11:33:00 CST 2003
The clue posted did not say green and white were adjacent, merely that one
was to the left of the other. Whether the first house is on the left or
right is a matter of cultural heritage, assumption and even relativity.
Arranged as a cul-de-sac, houses further to the right could be to the left.
Although your logic leads to a solution, it is not a proof unless it
definitively excludes all other possibilities. You'd really have to
establish that following the rules preclude the other four nationalities.
If it were a murder trial, you wouldn't want to hang someone just because he
might have done it according to a single interpretation of the evidence.
Without a graphic as to the house layout and directions as to what is left
and right, there are additional permutations that must be assessed. If you
lay out three houses thus:
Red - Green - Blue
then if one assigns the number 1 house as red and you are looking down on a
map, the house to the right of the number one house is Green. If you are
looking at three houses from across the street, then the house to the right
of the Red house is the Green house. However, if you then sit in the Red
house and ask the owner where his neighbor is, he will tell you Green is on
his left as he looks out his front door. In that case, the first most house
is the one on the right and not the typical assumption, the left most house.
In other words, the map view would require additional information as to
which is the front of the house.
One thing Einstein never took for granted was relativity: the viewpoint of
the observer on the situation. I wouldn't ascribe this drivel to him
without proof as it simply isn't worthy of his view of the world.
Hen
>From: Drew Wutka <DWUTKA at marlow.com>
>Reply-To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>To: "'accessd at databaseadvisors.com'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT- Ftiday Humor (Einstein Quiz)
>Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:21:51 -0600
>
>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. ***
>
>
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