Who Owns the Fish??

[Mtx]

Albert Einstein made a brain teaser called "Who Owns the Fish". It's supposed to be really hard but I found it extremely easy. One of my teachers claim that only 2% of the population (I guess of America) can figure this out within 10 minutes. I figured it out in my first 5 minutes.

Now I would like to see how many of you can figure it out. I know it is supposed to be hard and only 3 other people in my class discovered it (two worked in a group together) but .. I'd like to think you guys are a little smart. ;) Afterall you're gamers and gamers own, damnit!

Except you Tek.. you and your apelike brain will never figure this out. :p

The following is the test most of you will fail... and if you do it's okay. At least try.



There are five houses in a row and in five different colors. In each house lives a person from a different country. Each person drinks a certain drink, smokes a certain cigarette, and keeps a certain pet. No two people drink the same drink, smoke the same cigarette, or keep the same pet.

The Brit lives in a red house.

The Swede keeps dogs.

The Dane drinks tea.

The green house is on the left of the white house.

The green house owner drinks coffee.

The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.

The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.

The Norwegian lives in the first house.

The man who smokes Blend lives next to the man who keeps cats.

The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.

The man who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.

The German smokes Prince.

The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

The man who smokes Blend as a neighbor who drinks water.

WHO OWNS THE FISH?

You can always send me a PM ifyou are afraid of blerting out the wrong answer. :D

[Sputty]

I do because I hate "brain teasers" of any type and killed all of those bastards
THE FISH IS MINE

[Squeeky]

The German.

[1024]

hamma owns the fish.

[Corrosion]

The German.

[Lexington_Steele]

The Swede!!!!! (j/k)

Zie German has zie guppy. :)

[DoomWarrior]

hey iv'e done this before and it only took me 45 minutes, but iv'e forgot the answer and am ot going to bother answer it...











... It's Dane

[Lexington_Steele]

... It's Dane
He does the pony.

Do The Pony, Do The Pony!!! :dance:

[Onizuka]

hehe, i did this a while ago. Took me about 10 min with pencil and paper.

[AztecWarrior]

I'm too tired to figure out. I'll have a go at it in the mornings. I'm not on the West Coast.

[Neon Apocalypse]

My math teacher couldnt figure it out. I figured it our withing 6 min.

[DoomWarrior]

its like 9 pm here in canada, so im just about rdy to go to be awake all night

[AztecWarrior]

its like 9 pm here in canada, so im just about rdy to go to be awake all night

I'm not a vampire. I go to this 'school' place, and on Saturdays I go to rowing practice. I have to get up at 6 AM, I'm dead tired at this hour.

[Kikinchikin]

i doubt he knows you do rowing.

[OneManArmy]

well i figured it out before i even finished reading the problem

so stfuipwnkthxbye

[TekDragon]

Except you Tek.. you and your apelike brain will never figure this out. :p

I got a game, MTX. Let's play "Who's screwing your mom?"

Is it the mailman? The pizza delivery boy? The neighbor? The grocery clerk? Me? Or is it all of us together?

You've got 10 minutes to figure it out, then i'm done and going home.

[AztecWarrior]

I've got a game, too. It's called "not funny attempt at flame."

[Blood_Knight]

I got a game, MTX. Let's play "Who's screwing your mom?"

Is it the mailman? The pizza delivery boy? The neighbor? The grocery clerk? Me? Or is it all of us together?

You've got 10 minutes to figure it out, then i'm done and going home.
:rofl:

[Squeeky]

I've got a game, too. It's called "not funny attempt at flame."

[Mtx]

I got a game, MTX. Let's play "Who's screwing your mom?"

Is it the mailman? The pizza delivery boy? The neighbor? The grocery clerk? Me? Or is it all of us together?

You've got 10 minutes to figure it out, then i'm done and going home.

He takes my bait everytime. He's like that silly little fish I once caught with bologna. Don't you get it, Tek? Everytime you lose it like this... you're just proving to everyone else that I pwn joo!

Yes, it was the German. Congratulations to those who got it right. The rest of you are just average. ;)

[ZeusCali]

I say the German had a fish but then the British guy came over and like colonized it and brought some back to england so then the dane bought one and then the guy from norway bought one and sold it for 100x its price but then the german came and kicked everybodies ass and then killed there fish and he went back to his house and smoked a prince or two

[Squeeky]

MTX is right Tek. I used to take his bait all the time, i figured out his game. Don't take the bait, or else you will be his bitch.

[Ultimatedogg]

damn took me 12 minutes 34 seconds.....
guess im average :cool:

[Mtx]

It takes most people a very long time to get it. Only 3 other peers in my class grasped it before he explained how to solve the question to everyone. So it seems to me that any of you who can get it under half an hour are pretty good but I expect this from you. You're the online community and everyone knows we're smarter than those fools in the outside world.

Have you seen them lately? I went to the mall to pickup a computer Bible and damn.. talk about planet of the apes. The females were hotties though but I couldn't tell their age. The young ones are looking older now. Oh their trickery!

[ZeusCali]

/\pedophile
btw im smart
but what was the method you used to solve it i want to compare notes

right now its been 20 minutes and my father still hasn't solved it it's fun watching

[Ultimatedogg]

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/ultimatedogg/untitled2.JPG
I personally made a chart

O's are what each person is
X's arent

as i read the clue i X'ed out what couldnt be and Oed what could

[Corrosion]

Here's it right side up courtesy of me.

http://romshack.us/up/images/untitled21111111111111.jpg

[Ultimatedogg]

thx
i was wondering why it was hard to read......................

[Lexington_Steele]

I had one 5x4 matrix and one 2x5 matrix.

[Ait'al]

I used ot be able to do these in my head while i read them. Even this one.

Still could if my head wasnt so messed up right now.