Who keeps the fish?

[kindredspirit]

THE EINSTEIN QUIZ
Below is a quiz written by Einstein last century.
He said that 98% of the people in the world cannot
solve the quiz.
Are you among the other 2% ?

Facts:
1: There are 5 houses in 5 diffrent colours
2: In each house lives a person with a different
nationality.
3: These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a
certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.
4: No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand
of cigar or drink the same drink.

Hints:
1: The Brit lives in a 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 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 one who
keeps cats.
11: The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who
smokes Dunhill.
12: The owner who smokes Blue Master 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.

The question is: WHO KEEPS THE FISH ?

I suppose tcm will be first to answer !


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[tcm]

If there are any fish kept as a pet, then the German keeps them.

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[kindredspirit]

Absolutely spot on. It's the German.


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[tcm]

Re: How to solve it

The fish were being kept by the German when this question came up last year when BrendanS solved it. Finding that post takes about 20 seconds with a search for say "german" and "chesterfield".

Now, I deduced that the German will be very boring, and have a rubbishy Euro-economy, so he is unlikley to have sold the house to make a few quid and move away from this area that sounds a bit like an ex-council estate with mad-coloured houses and loads of blimmin foreigners.

And, the German will probly be a whole load better than Haydn at making sure the fish haven't been eaten by herons. And of course the fish can't walk off. So, the Germans will still be keeping the fish. Simple, really.

 

[BarryH]

Re: How to solve it

"sounds a bit like an ex-council estate with mad-coloured houses and loads of blimmin foreigners"

But that don't hold true anymore. Was over in Wentworth, visiting a friend of mine who made loads of money selling his council house, the place was full of krauts, yanks and chinks. Try living around Bromley common and Biggin Hill!

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[kindredspirit]

Re: How to solve it

Aah! I wasn't looking at the forum a year ago, so I didn't see the original post.

It was in my e-mail folder dated May 1998, so it's been around a while.

<hr width=100% size=1>Kev.