Einstein's Riddle

[giumbai]

So the riddle "Einstein wrote this riddle last century and said that 98% of the world's population would NOT be able to solve it.
Are you a part of that 98%?

There are 5 houses that are each a different colour.
There is a person of a different nationality in each house.

The 5 owners drink a certain drink. They each smoke a certain brand of cigarettes and also have a certain pet. No owner has the same pet, smokes the same brand of cigarettes nor drinks the same drink.
The question is. "Who has the fish?"

CLUES

1. The British man lives in the red house.
2. The Swedish man has a dog for a pet.
3. The Danish man drinks tea.
4. The green house is to the left of the white house.
5. The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
6. The person that smokes Pall Mall has a bird.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The person that lives in the middle house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The person that smokes Blend, lives next to the one that has a cat.
11. The person that has a horse lives next to the one that smokes Dunhill.
12. The one that smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to a blue house.
15. The person that smokes Blend, has a neighbour that drinks water.
"
Seems a little bit easy for just 2 percent of the population to find the answer. Do yo really believe that there are just 2 percent of the world population that can find the answer. I believe that everyone who is not mentally challenge can do it ...

 

[Cognisant]

You draw a table and you either have enough information to deduce the answer or you don't.

Of course if intelligence is the optimisation of behaviour to achieve a desired outcome than a more intelligent person would just google it.

Then again what you're really asking is if I have the mental space to deduce the answer without resorting to drawing a table and honestly I don't, I suppose I could but I've got more important things to do with my neurons than proving to you that I'm capable of elementary logic.

 

[Hadoblado]

Firstly, don't generalise your own ability to others. It may seem proposterous to you that others don't know the ways to solve a problem you do, but it probably seems preposterous to a bodybuilder that you can't lift your own body weight effortlessly. The thing about problem solving techniques is that they're easy once you know them, but really hard when you don't.

Secondly, if something claims to come from Einstein, and it's not about physics, it's best to disbelieve it. He may have had his say in other areas, but his expertise doesn't generalise. He wasn't a psychologist. Even if you somehow manage to find something that is actually from Einstein that you haven't heard repeated thousands of times on the internet, there are probably people with better expertise that have said it better.

Einstein is the poster-child for appeals to authority, most of which are made falsely.

"I didn't say half the shit people say I did" ~ Albert Einstein

Also also

"Einstein wrote this riddle last century and said that 98% of the world's population would NOT be able to solve it.
Are you a part of that 98%?

Learn to identify participation scams. People will do anything for your upboat.

 

[crippli]

I couldn't do it mentally.At least, that would take time. I am quite sure I would lose track and mix things up. It would also induce stress on me. Frustration, anger, then a feeling of failure, and finally depression. With a paper and pencil as memory help, it was easy. But I think it's meant to be solved without aid.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

5 slots with 5 elements. Do you have 3125 bytes of RAM?
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It is a computational problem that requires little thinking and a lot of memorising and comparing.

The next simplest way without using a sheet of paper and without looking up the answer, would be most likely to visualise 5 columns with 4 elements and fill the slots using imagination, which is not impossible, but likely requires a few attempts and a few minutes of time.

I agree that 2% is a catchphrase, a good way to boost popularity by offering the prospect of "being in the top %" with Einsteins authority.

 

[Hawkeye]

Try and solve the cryptic clues on the '80s British game-show 3-2-1.

 

[giumbai]

Firstly, don't generalise your own ability to others. It may seem proposterous to you that others don't know the ways to solve a problem you do, but it probably seems preposterous to a bodybuilder that you can't lift your own body weight effortlessly. The thing about problem solving techniques is that they're easy once you know them, but really hard when you don't.

Secondly, if something claims to come from Einstein, and it's not about physics, it's best to disbelieve it. He may have had his say in other areas, but his expertise doesn't generalise. He wasn't a psychologist. Even if you somehow manage to find something that is actually from Einstein that you haven't heard repeated thousands of times on the internet, there are probably people with better expertise that have said it better.

Einstein is the poster-child for appeals to authority, most of which are made falsely.

"I didn't say half the shit people say I did" ~ Albert Einstein

Also also

Learn to identify participation scams. People will do anything for your upboat.

First of all I didn't generalized anything, and i'm not a bodybuilder but i can lift my body effortless, so it seems to me that you generalize thinks like if you do something you can't do exactly the opposite (i'm not saying that bodybuilding is in opposite with logic that is what you said and i just repeat it ) that means that you have a problem with self esteem, try and put yourself in some new situation in your daily life to build it up more. Nothing is hard you just need to learn and exercise to obtain the desired result.
Something that you don't know is that Einstein did a lot of mistakes before he become great, even in physics.. You assumed that everything he said about physics is true, but you really need to learn more. And who said that i believed that this is what Einstein written if you don't know what "" means you should learn .. Another thing you should understand about information is that every person when he/she reads a text understands something else especially on scientific theories, it is based on your personal experience with the subject. I can deduced that this is not the first time you encounter this on the internet and that after you resolved it you where impressed by it and possible you wrote a comment somewhere about you achieve or tolled your friends and they luffed in your face.
Secondly thanks for you advice "Learn to identify participation scams. People will do anything for your upboat." I just don't need it. And an advice from me, you are not an INTP you take everything to personally and you have some problems in your life wright now, maybe is with you parents because you seem somewhat young and still living with them and/or problems with a girlfriend (but neah, i don't see you in a relationship maybe is that you like a girl and you are in her friedszone ), try to see life from multiple perspectives, be more mature. Another thing try to chose your words, the most powerful weapon in the world are your words.

 

[Hadoblado]

Yes I made the mistake of thinking bodybuilding was in opposite of logic.

Yes my esteem is low.

You're right, nothing is hard.

Einstein did make a lot of mistakes. You're right! What an idiot!

I did blindly assume everything he said is true! Spot on!

I didn't know what "" meant, I'll go google that now.

Science is completely subjective. Wowee! I'd never thought of that.

Your power of deductive inference is pretty tight! I was impressed, and I did boast to all my friends! They did laugh those cruel, nasty people.

Since you've been right about so many other things, it's pretty obvious now that you didn't need the advice.

Yeah I see what you mean. I'm not right about things so I can't be an INTP. After all, people that think they are good at thinking are thinkers, and I don't think that at all... If I did, I'd be wrong, because I'm not an INTP!

I do take things too personally. I've become so used to it, I didn't even realise I was making it personal by making up stories about other people's type, self-esteem, love-life, attractiveness, age, quality of life, and perspective. I was telling people what they were for them as if I somehow knew more about their situation than they did! You've truly opened my eyes to this.

As for language, I do try to chose my words, but I just can't keep my eyes on the page while mashing my face vigorously up and down my keyboard. I prefer to weaponise my words vicariously by observing other people's language, then telling them they're bad at it. That way I never ever need to think about the quality of my own. You should try it My apologies, you obviously don't need any of my advice.

 

[QuickTwist]

Relax man. Its jus the internet.

 

[Hawkeye]

Giumbai, I hate to be an arse, but even though you used inverted commas, you lacked a vital colon. Furthermore, as you were quoting a rather large piece of text, what you should have done was placed the entire Einstein puzzle into a Quote Box.

Like this.

This clears up the post significantly and allows people to differentiate your point from the mass of text.

 

[Cavallier]

Relax man. Its jus the internet.

Agreed.

 

[Hawkeye]

Habo was being sarcastic for those that missed it.


The Einstein puzzle is meant to be done in the head and therefore I would agree that only a small amount of people can do this successfully.

 

[giumbai]

Something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh7tgX_Uaqs
PS. I apologize if I've been ofensive to some people that wasn't my intention.

 

[The Introvert]

This:

Yes I made the mistake of thinking bodybuilding was in opposite of logic.

Yes my esteem is low.

You're right, nothing is hard.

Einstein did make a lot of mistakes. You're right! What an idiot!

I did blindly assume everything he said is true! Spot on!

I didn't know what "" meant, I'll go google that now.

Science is completely subjective. Wowee! I'd never thought of that.

Your power of deductive inference is pretty tight! I was impressed, and I did boast to all my friends! They did laugh those cruel, nasty people.

Since you've been right about so many other things, it's pretty obvious now that you didn't need the advice.

Yeah I see what you mean. I'm not right about things so I can't be an INTP. After all, people that think they are good at thinking are thinkers, and I don't think that at all... If I did, I'd be wrong, because I'm not an INTP!

I do take things too personally. I've become so used to it, I didn't even realise I was making it personal by making up stories about other people's type, self-esteem, love-life, attractiveness, age, quality of life, and perspective. I was telling people what they were for them as if I somehow knew more about their situation than they did! You've truly opened my eyes to this.

Laughed out loud at this:

As for language, I do try to choose my words, but I just can't keep my eyes on the page while mashing my face vigorously up and down my keyboard. I prefer to weaponise my words vicariously by observing other people's language, then telling them they're bad at it. That way I never ever need to think about the quality of my own. You should try it My apologies, you obviously don't need any of my advice.

For the record, I logged in just to repost this.

Also, OP's second post: Can't tell if ironically hilarious/stupid or a really good troll.

I also agree with Hado's first post.
Good work, Hado.

 

[Hadoblado]

Relax man. Its just the internet.

I have an ego to protect.

Edit: for the record, I couldn't do it in my head. I'm thinking it would take exceptional spatial/visual memory skills plus moderate rational ability.

 

[TBerg]

Einstein did have an unusual capacity for visual-spatial thought as determined by his thought experiments and his larger parietal lobe.

 

[Hadoblado]

I just somehow deleted my post twice. Grrrr...

The brief of it is:

This has nothing to do with Einstein.

Wiki:

It is often called Einstein's Puzzle or Einstein's Riddle because it is said to have been invented by Albert Einstein as a boy.[1] Some claim that only 2% of the population can solve it.[2][3] The puzzle is also sometimes attributed to Lewis Carroll.[4][5] However, there is no known evidence for Einstein's or Carroll's authorship and the Life International puzzle cited below mentions brands of cigarette, such as Kools, that did not exist during Carroll's lifetime or Einstein's boyhood.

Einstein may have been able to do it in his head, but that doesn't make it anything to do with Einstein. There are plenty of high profile intellectuals that could say the same. It could have been Hawking's or Tesla's puzzle just as easily if it weren't for Einstein's branding giving him appeal to the average internet denizen.

The stat is also made up. Stats aren't just thrown out by high profile intellectuals. They're the result of an empirical process that in this case didn't happen. It's also not ballpark. One in fifty is the equivalent of approximately 130 IQ on the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler. That is too high an estimate for being able to do this on paper, and too low for being able to do it in your head.

I'm really rather sick of people riding Einstein's hype train for shit he didn't do (hence the harsh response). He was a great man yes, but that doesn't mean he was relevant in every field.

 

[giumbai]

Men you should learn more about intelligent what it is, and the modern tests of intelligences, you will see that if you are good at one test doesn't mean that you are good at everything, and don't get so stressed out about things that are on the internet, the horoscope is also on the internet and if you ask me is totally bulshit, but people still like to read it and believe in it, they chose what they want to read and believe in it, you can not chose for them, or are you an Mini Hitler ? Just be open minded and understand that there are a lot of things hat you don't know.. It's not an offense, you have a very small view of the world, you believe that what you see is the only thing that exist.. nu is not, the same thing you see for someone else is totally different. You live in a small world..

 

[Hadoblado]

I don't want horoscopes on this forum.

Are you assuming I know less than you because you disagree? Seems smart.

How about you be open-minded and allow for the possibility that some things are just wrong, and the only way to expose these untruths is (counter-intuitively) not to spread every rumor you hear, but to question them?

I'm happy to entertain a claim, I do so by comparing it to the evidence and testing it for logical consistency. It's you with the narrow world view that these claims can't possibly be wrong, and that they shouldn't be questioned.

Yes I'm e-Hitler because I call BS instead of standing idle while misinformation is propagated once more. Yes, you are e-Einstein for pointing this out.

 

[giumbai]

Sorry men but you are not on the same page with what I've said. It's not even worth to explain myself..

 

[Prion]

I agree with cognisant. This riddle serves me absolutely no purpose, other than the right to brag about solving it (if I did). I'm much too lazy to attempt to solve it.

...but I will give the simplest answer I can, off the top of my head: maybe the fish belongs to the one with the cat.

 

[Jennywocky]

It is often called Einstein's Puzzle or Einstein's Riddle because it is said to have been invented by Albert Einstein as a boy.[1] Some claim that only 2% of the population can solve it.[2][3] The puzzle is also sometimes attributed to Lewis Carroll.[4][5] However, there is no known evidence for Einstein's or Carroll's authorship and the Life International puzzle cited below mentions brands of cigarette, such as Kools, that did not exist during Carroll's lifetime or Einstein's boyhood.

I actually started to research that myself, then had to go do something and promptly forgot about the thread. But I suspected the puzzle did not originate with Einstein, it's just a form of intellectual pseudonymity to claim unfounded validity for the puzzle.

EDIT: uh oh. Someone mentioned Hitler (or Mini-Hitler). Is the thread effectively Godwin'ed?