Recently, my wife got impressed with the Einstein's quote of "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" and asked me to solve his famous "Fish Puzzle". I managed to solve that puzzle in 25 minutes.
The puzzle goes like this;
1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pets
THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?
HINTS
1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.
Answer is: German
Anyone can solve this puzzle. Imagine this is the zig zag puzzle which we used to solve. Replicate the hint scenarios similar to that. Then it will be easy to solve this puzzle. How I did, I used Excel 2003/2007 to solve this puzzle. (Some brainiac can do in their mind itself like my wife.. :) ). I jot down the hints in the excels and painted them in some colors to identify. So that, while re-shuffling we can ensure that we are not breaking the rules of the hints!!!
Voila!! Try out at your home and you can also become next Einstein!!! LOL :P
The puzzle goes like this;
1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pets
THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?
HINTS
1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.
Answer is: German
Anyone can solve this puzzle. Imagine this is the zig zag puzzle which we used to solve. Replicate the hint scenarios similar to that. Then it will be easy to solve this puzzle. How I did, I used Excel 2003/2007 to solve this puzzle. (Some brainiac can do in their mind itself like my wife.. :) ). I jot down the hints in the excels and painted them in some colors to identify. So that, while re-shuffling we can ensure that we are not breaking the rules of the hints!!!
Voila!! Try out at your home and you can also become next Einstein!!! LOL :P
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