Got this from Jem, and answered it too. But I’m posting my solution here because when I googled to check if I got it right, I saw much simpler/faster ways to answer it hahaha which made me kinda sad that I took a “logical-long-cut.” But nonetheless, it was nice to know that I solved it either way.
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 goodluck and don’t give up.
- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
- In each house lives a person of different nationality.
- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?
Hints:
- The Brit lives in a red house.
- The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
- The Dane drinks tea.
- The Green house is on the left of the White house.
- The owner of the Green house 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 man who keeps cats.
- The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
- The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
- The German smokes Prince.
- The Norwegian lives next to the Blue house.
- The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
Albert Einstein wrote this riddle during the 19th century. He said that 98% of the population would not be able to solve it.