Beat the statistics - Solve this riddle

SSH · Tue 20/04/2004 13:15:28

It took me two minutes to solve it ... by googling "einstein riddle answer"

Nacho · Tue 20/04/2004 15:29:57

Shbazjinkens has been PMed!!!1

kaaZ · Tue 20/04/2004 17:04:07

cool riddle...pm'ed ya zbjienc#@#^&...whatever...

MrColossal · Tue 20/04/2004 19:18:16

Quote from: EvenWolf on Tue 20/04/2004 07:30:38
And technically, if 'figuring it out' simply means to name which house - I think more than 2% of the population can guess with the odds at 1/5.

Duh, of course Einstein didn't know what he was talking about... He made very little money and I think the majority of people on this forum make more money than him..

Way to go Einstein...

Privateer Puddin' · Tue 20/04/2004 19:26:17

Quote from: SSH on Tue 20/04/2004 13:15:28
It took me two minutes to solve it ... by googling "einstein riddle answer"

yet it still took you two minutes?!

Esseb · Tue 20/04/2004 19:50:58

Considering the riddle only states that the green house is to the left of the white house, not to the immediate left, there may be more than one solution. I'm too lazy to check or even google for it so I'll let the next bored person to read this thread figure out if there is.

shbaz · Tue 20/04/2004 20:18:09

Wow.. a lot more PM's. Now that that Google is mentioned, I guess I may as well post the answer. 11 People have worked it out now.

Losttravelor
MillsJROSS
Goldenmonkey
Esseb
Privateer Puddin
Kinoko
Mr_Frisby
Farlander
Blackbird
KaaZ
hX

Spoiler

It's the American

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Spoiler

I mean.. the German.

1   Yellow   Norweigan   Water   Dunhills   Cats
2   blue   Dane   tea   blends   Horses
3   Red   British   milk   Pall mall   Birds
4   green   German   coffee   Prince   Fish
5   white   Swede   beer   blue master   Dog

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Esseb · Tue 20/04/2004 23:25:23

QuoteFinally, you may want to notice that the young Albert Einstein (1879-1955) could not possibly have authored the puzzle in this form: The Pall Mall brand of cigarettes was introduced by Butler & Butler in 1899 (sold to American Tobacco in 1907 and Brown & Williamson in 1994) and Alfred Dunhill was established in 1893 (starting to manufacture pipes in 1907) when Einstein was still a young man. However, the Blue Master brand was introduced by J. L. Tiedemann in 1937, when Einstein was 58!

We've been told about a few recreational magazines (listed below) in which many such [rather boring] brain teasers could be found on a regular basis. This particular puzzle may well have originated in one of these, and would owe its enduring popularity to its apocryphal attribution to Einstein: Logica (French monthly), Dell Crosswords, Logic Problems (British), McCall's Magazine (1950's ?), PM (German), etc.

http://home.att.net/~numericana/answer/recreational.htm#einstein5

Robert Eric · Tue 20/04/2004 23:31:58

Since I'm an American, I most likely can't answer the question. Using that excuse, I won't even try.

Nacho · Tue 20/04/2004 23:45:17

Mmm... I think it's funnier to try to solve the riddle that googling for evidence about if it was or not invented by Einstein...

* Farlander hopes Esseb doesn't read this...

Esseb · Tue 20/04/2004 23:57:22

I already had my fun Farlander.

I don't know what you wrote as I haven't read it, I just felt like typing that.

evenwolf · Wed 21/04/2004 00:48:26

Quote from: MrColossal on Tue 20/04/2004 19:18:16
Duh, of course Einstein didn't know what he was talking about... He made very little money and I think the majority of people on this forum make more money than him..

Way to go Einstein...

And I'm smarter than you, brainiac!

Listen, I could sit around all day trying to figure out how smart I am with dinky puzzles- but I'd much rather go out and make money, becoming smarter every minute!

Robert Eric · Wed 21/04/2004 00:57:06

Yes, the more money you have, the smarter you are. A good rule to live by.

._.

Gilbert · Wed 21/04/2004 02:00:00

Quote from: Esseb on Tue 20/04/2004 19:50:58
Considering the riddle only states that the green house is to the left of the white house, not to the immediate left, there may be more than one solution. I'm too lazy to check or even google for it so I'll let the next bored person to read this thread figure out if there is.

Heh when I was solving it long ago, I was once confused on that part, not with immediate left or whatever, but that the riddle didn't state clearly whether the first house started from the left or from the right.

Kinoko · Wed 21/04/2004 04:32:53

There are a couple of points that aren't totally clear. I stared blankly at that condition about the green house being "to the left" of the white one for a while. I went with my instinct and assumed it meant the immediate left and luckily that was right. I don't think (thought I'm not sure) that you can solve it by taking it the other way. It seems too non-specific, but maybe it can be done. Would anyone care to try? ^_-

DragonRose · Wed 21/04/2004 06:03:32

I love this style of brain teaser, where you have to figure out a riddle based on a series of conditions. I managed to do this one when I was in grade six or seven, I can't remember.

Quote from: Kinoko on Wed 21/04/2004 04:32:53
I went with my instinct and assumed it meant the immediate left and luckily that was right.

This statement made me giggle. Left is right! Yay for paradoxes!

Synthetique · Wed 21/04/2004 16:02:23

Heheh.. old one. Solved it. :P

bspeers100 · Wed 21/04/2004 18:39:05

The houses are in space, rotating in a spherical pattern that changes with each succeeding line, so the question is unsolvable.

evenwolf · Wed 21/04/2004 18:47:22

haha that's easy jackass!

The american is the only one in space! Oooooh! Space pride!

--ok actually, who does have space programs?

Esseb · Wed 21/04/2004 18:53:14

USA, China, Russia and the EU all have the necessary equipment to send a man into space I believe.

Edit: Silly me, I forgot the one I built in my back yard.

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