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I was helping my son with his math homework.
One of the tasks was to solve a simplified version of Einsteins riddle.
Fixed it after a while, helping the kid to think the right way.
But I remember that I really struggled with it in my youth, took me several days IIRC (not continuous obviously), with several restarts, so I thought I'd try it out again.
Fixed it in a couple of minutes. 
I thought we're supposed to get slower with age.
For anyone that want to check how fast they are (Don't cheat):
Quote:
There are 5 houses in five different colors.
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 brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.
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'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
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I got one problem - I have never smoked anything (not even tobacco  ), and for at least thirty years none of my friends have been smoking. So "blend" is a completely uknown term to me. Is Prince, Pall Mall, Dunhill or BlueMaster a blend, the others not? Are several of them "blends"? I don't have a clue!
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It's a cigarette brand.
Quite a silly name for a cigarette brand, but so are cigarettes as such in my not so humble opinion.
I've never heard about Bluemaster either. But whoever wrote this specific version of this old classic riddle comes from Scandinavia I believe
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It is like naming a brand of chocolate "flavour".
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I remember this from a book of brain teasers taken from Reader's Digest. I think I did it when I was 12, but it also took me a while to figure it out.
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I got it, after some crazy pivot excel tableing.
The Swede, Brit and Dane all live in the red house. The German drinks beer together with his dogs and cats. The Norwegian has no house but he is probably dead since he smokes Blend, Pall Mall, Dunhill and BlueMaster. The cats drinks milk. The horse lives in the green house. The white house is empty (but the fish wants to run for election).
I think this Einstein thing is highly overrated, this was easy.
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So, the Norwegian is a bum?
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You guys from the North are all scandinavinian friends, aren't you ?
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I suspect we get along better than most, but there's no real trust.
And we love to poke fun at each others like the French do to Belgians.
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Alas, we French are too condescending towards the Belgians, which is a pity because it spoils the relationship we have with them, and Belgians are great... Most here see it link a kind of grown-up/child relationship.
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I think it's easier when you're more similar in size.
There's a comic called Scandinavia and the World[^] that's illuminating our relationship fairly well.
It's Danish and obviously written from a Danish point of view, but usually it's dead on.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Scandinavia and the World
Sitting here in India, I've been a fan of this for some years now
Cheers,
Vikram.
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did it a few years back, took me around 40-45 minutes.
Repeated it a while back and did it in less than 30 minutes.
Not sure how that scores with the rest of the world though 
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2 Trials:
- Just writing down what I found out... too long I gave up
- Filling all houses with all options striking out what could not be... 25 minutes.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Filling all houses with all options striking out what could not be... 25 minutes.
I think I went by process of elimination years ago when I last did it, and your time estimate sounds about right.
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They think, therefore they ARRRRR!
(It be talk like a pirate day, ye landlubbers!)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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They probably prefer a ship above a campervan for their holidays 
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- They sail in one of these ships: The Muppet Show - In the Navy
- Their captain is known as:
- Captain Hook
- The Dread Pirate Roberts
Dagmar HammarskjoldRagnar Danneskjold
FIXED: thanks to Greg Utas for pointing out my error.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
modified 19-Sep-21 15:30pm.
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 Dagmar Hammarskjold sounds cool ... First name sounds female to me, which makes it even better 
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It's actually from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
He's a sort of Robin Hood - he steals from corrupt governments (which in the book is all of them) and what we would call today "crony capitalists", uses some of his gains to pay his expenses, and keeps the rest in escrow until the Producers of the world finally throw off the moochers and other parasites. These Producers will then be reimbursed each according to what corruption, mooochers, and parasites cost them.
A rather idealistic view of piracy, but then the whole book is a polemic.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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This territory is quite unknown to me ... looks like a good read , thanks for the reference ...
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Be careful! You are treading on thin ice  Hard to see any mention of that author as non-political. Almost like that German guy M**x 
Mircea
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I'm well aware that Ayn Rand was a very controversial author. I did not discuss her views on politics, religion, or any other subject.
I fail to see how a short outline of one of the characters in her most well-known book constitutes a political / religious / other debate.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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In case the smilies in my message didn’t show it, let me spell it clearly that my reply was in jest. 😀
Let me head out before the thought police arrives 😜
Mircea
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Accurate description of the character, but it's Ragnar Danneskjold.
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