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    Default Einstein's Riddle: Who owns the fish?

    http://www.southernct.edu/~fields/al...nsteinsRiddle/

    The following riddle was supposedly posed by Albert Einstein (I haven't been able to verify that), he reportedly claimed that less than 2 percent of the people in the world could solve it.

    There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The 5 owners each drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain type of pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

    The following statements are all true:

    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 immediately to the left of the white house.
    5. The green house's owner drinks coffee.
    6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
    7. The owner of yellow house smokes Dunhills.
    8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
    9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
    10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
    11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
    12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
    13. The German smokes Prince.
    14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
    15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

    The question is: "Who owns the fish?"

    Believe it or not, there is sufficient information in the list of statements to settle this question.

    It took me 5hours today to figure this out but I got it. Sat at work thinking im never going to get it but I did. Good times.

    Don't spoil the answer right away.
    AKAMA > (The Zerg) > 4x Shamans > FirstRock, SecondRock, ThridRock, FourthRock

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    http://www.xkcd.com/356/

    And that's why all my characters are dead now. .... and I'm still working on it.

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    OMG...

    I did a really complicated spreadsheet with all possible combinations...

    Then my brain melted...

    Then my PC went bang...

    Then I got it.

    And no I won't say who.
    Currently running 3x City of Heroes under Octopus

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    Solved in 20 minutes <3
    Wilbur

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    23 minutes...thinking in the morning is a bad thing.
    I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

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    30 minutes, I'm a bit slow.
    What they are saying: "Why are those guys following you? Why do they wear the same stuff? Did you pay for all of those accounts? Boxing is so unfair. Ebay? Lozer. Get a life. WTF? Retard. Gay." What they are thinking: "Damn, wish I could do that. That's so cool. This guy rocks! Lucky bastard. Maybe I can get mom to buy me more accounts."

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    Meh, took 50 minutes. Spent too long thinking about whether 'first house' was first on the left or first on the right...

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