Good riddle for the weekend

I do not know if you all have tried this one, but it is pretty good. Don't even think of looking up the answer until you have tried!!! Have fun


ARE YOU IN THE TOP 2% OF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD?
SOLVE THE RIDDLE AND FIND OUT.

There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.

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 pet.

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 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.

ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE
SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.

 

Nobody owns a fish. It died from second-hand smoke.

 

ha ha that is good, i never figured it that way, let me add that in as a factor

 

Count me in that 2%!!

That was fun, though my solution was decidedly non-logical and took 45 minutes of mad scribbling

PP

 

It wasn't easy, I had to rewrite it 6 or 7 times myself.

 

I'll give it a shot.
But Einstein was born in 1879. How could he write it before he was born?

 

Good catch! Maybe he discovered time travel! Just like him not to tell us about it,

 

The 19 century is actually the 1800s but i dont count myself in that 2% im to lazy to read it.

 

I have an answer. How do I know if it's correct?

 

And he was born in 1879, so he couldn't have written it in the early 19th century.

 

pm or aim and i will reveal your wrong answer bwahaha, no I am sure you have it right!

 

MrPewty congrats! lets see what he has won----a round of cyberapplause
1st to get it right with the added bonus of additional einstein knowledge,

 

Well then it wasnt written by enstien or is true birth date is bogus or he never wrote it in the early 19 century or he can timetravel. Who noes

 

Sure he could. I mean he was what, 11, 12?

 

Early 19 century would be 1800 - 1830 after that it aint early no more

 

No, that would have been the 20th.

Wouldn't it? Now I'm all confused...

But I got the riddle...

 

sits n chuckles... the 19th century is 1800-1899! Surely u remember the year 2000 being the celebration of the entrance into the 21st century?

The riddle is well known and googleable lol..... but the style and way to solve is like logic problem books you can buy. Follow process of elimination n tis done, and if you use excel for a grid tis even easier lol

Mind... other cultures use different calenders.....

 

The man himself

 

Ok, tried to solve this with the grid solution method (each compared variable on intertwining X vs Y grids) and I think I worked it out -- I also think I have too much time on my hands when my wife is on call... Though I don't know if I have the right answer until Animatress replies.