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Einsteins Riddle
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Was Einstein really the first person to invent this riddle? In case you don't know it is the one where there are 5 houses in 5 different colours.In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage,smoke a certain brand of cigar,and keep a certain pet.No owners have the same pet,smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.You are then given a certain number of facts.Einstein said that 98% of the world could not solve it.
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No - Einstein is alleged to have written the riddle late in the 19th century or early 20th century - but the brand name of the cigar mentioned 'Blue Master' wasn't introduced until 1937. To be honest I don't think it is the type of problem that would have interested him anyway. He was more concerned with paradoxes intended to discredit quantum theory ( ER Paradox ).
In all honesty, it actually took me about an hour. But its not that hard to solve if you know how to work the puzzle. I did puzzle books when I was a kid and there was a particular puzzle that I used to love that was set out in a specific table with statements for you to work out. So I drew up my own table and added in the info with ticks and crosses. Hard to explain, but if I could show you this table, then you would know what I mean when I say you can work it out quick, so I promise I'm being honest and I'm not that clever either! :)