Attempt to Solve the Problem that Leaves 98% of People Worldwide Stumped

The Riddle “Who Keeps the Fish?” Seems Simple Yet Stumps Many Before Einstein.

At the end of the 19th century, scientist Albert Einstein posed a riddle and asserted that only a maximum of 2% of the world’s population could solve it.

Do you want to be among the rare 2% of the world’s population who can solve this tricky puzzle as Einstein claimed? If you can solve it on your own, your IQ must be quite impressive.

Scientist Albert Einstein.

Now, let’s take a look at the details of the riddle and patiently attempt to solve it before checking the answer at the end of the article!

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The Riddle:

1. There are 5 houses, each painted a different color.
2. The owners of each house are of different nationalities.
3. Each house owner prefers a different drink, smokes a different brand of cigarettes, and has a different pet.
4. No two owners have the same drink preference, cigarette brand, or pet.

Hints:

1. The Englishman lives in the red house.
2. The Swede owns a dog.
3. The Dane enjoys drinking tea.
4. The green house is to the left of the white house.
5. The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
6. The Pall Mall smoker keeps birds.
7. The yellow house owner smokes Dunhill.
8. The person living in the middle house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The Blends smoker lives next to the cat owner.
11. The horse owner lives next to the Dunhill smoker.
12. The Blue Master smoker enjoys beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The Blends smoker has a neighbor who drinks water.

The Question is: Who keeps the fish?

Now, gather your paper and pencil, and try to answer this tricky riddle from Einstein!

And now, let’s check the solution to this riddle.

By creating a table with 5 columns corresponding to the 5 houses and 5 rows to record the hint information (house color, nationality, drink, cigarette brand, pet) and using the process of elimination, you should find it not too difficult to solve Einstein’s riddle.

Did you arrive at an answer like this?

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