These page are for all those laterally minded people that have the ability to solve these brainteasers (one of which I am not). There will generally be a new quiz posted every month with answers to last months quiz located in the archive zone.

March 2002 - Teaser

(This quiz was (apparently) written by Albert Einstein. He said that only 2% of people could solve the quiz.)

Facts:

1. There are 5 houses in a row each painted a different colour.
2. In each house lives a person with a different nationality.
3. These 5 house owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
4. No owner has the same pet, smokes the same brand of cigar or drinks the same drink.

Clues:

1. The Brit lives in the 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 green house owner drinks coffee
6. The person that smokes Pall Mall rears birds
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
8. The man living in the house right in the centre drinks milk
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next to the none who keeps cats
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill
12. The owner who smokes Blue Masters drinks beer
13. The German smokes Prince
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water

Question

Who keeps the fish?

A full solution will be posted during April for those that fall into the 98th percentile!

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Last modified: March 18, 2002