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This brainteaser, reportedly written by Einstein is difficult and Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world could not figure it out. Which percentage are you in?

Quote:

There are five houses in a row in different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.

The question is-- who owns the fish?

Hints:
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 who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
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 Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

Edit:

Got rid of the link as at the bottom of that page is a link to the answer. Wouldn't want anyone cheating now, would we?

Show your answer, when you get it, in the spoiler tag thing.

For anyone that wants it, I drew up a truth matrix for this problem, which you can get here. For some browsers, you may need to save it before you can propperly view it.

The german, Prince smoker, coffee drinker in the green house second from the right owns the fish

You know, they taught us how to solve these things in elementary school...

Funny, first time I saw these things was Junior year.

I'd solve this but it's just a waste of my time. I don't see how only 98% of the world's population could solve this, it really isn't that hard...

Don't know what to say, except it was part of the "gifted" curiculum

i found it easy. ive been doing stuff like this since year 8 @ school. its only hard when you havent learn how to solve these sort of things.

Its easy. All the information is there, you just have to work it out. They taught us this freshman year at our school too.

I remember doing these things in my AG class in like 2nd grade.

How many people have tried doing this brainteaser?

I did..took me like 10 minutes to work everythning out, but I got it

Way too easy if you have a piece of paper and a pencil.

Why Einstein said only 2% of the world's population could do it we'll never know. Surely a lot more can.

Perhaps in his time, people were not as well educated?

Or maybe.. that 2% of the population has migrated to the internet forums, mainly this one.