Albert Einstein's logic problem

[JohnK]

This problem was devised by Einstein in the 19th century and he had claimed that 98% of people in the world can't solve it. You need to reason every decision you make. I challenge you all to have a serious go at this, and post your attempt.
If you have any other good logic problems like this drop them in too, I'm keen for a go.

Facts:

1: There are 5 houses in 5 different 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: from the following facts, can you determine WHO KEEPS FISH?

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.

Edit: unsure if I should include solution in post. if any demand, will edit in

 

[Stone Age Rebel]

This problem was devised by Einstein in the 19th century and he had claimed that only 98% of people in the world can solve it. You need to reason every decision you make. I challenge you all to have a serious go at this, and post your attempt.
If you have any other good logic problems like this drop them in too, I'm keen for a go.

Edit: unsure if I should include solution in post. if any demand, will edit in

Unless I'm severely mentally ill, then why would I bother with the problem?

 

[Skaterdude456]

Unless I'm severely mentally ill, then why would I bother with the problem?

I read that also lol but I'm guessing he was meaning to say "98% of people can't solve this problem"

 

[Exampe]

Looked at it, and it hurt my brain.

 

[Bubba Fuzz]

I don't get it. What should I be getting? Lol.

 

[JohnK]

Unless I'm severely mentally ill, then why would I bother with the problem?

I read that also lol but I'm guessing he was meaning to say "98% of people can't solve this problem"

Sorry! Yes, I corrected it. lol.

I don't get it. What should I be getting? Lol.

You need to find out who keeps the Fish.

 

[Rawrasaurus]

This would probably take hours to solve.. I started off solving it but I really cannot be bothered to (Attempt) to finish it.

EDIT: The answer is all over the internet, but I won't spoil it by posting it here.

 

[Russia]

How dumb do you really have to be to not be able to solve this? I got it on my first try. It's process of elimination people! Come on! you don't even need paper. It's so easy. Just look for the person that it doesn't say what he has as a pet.

 

[Clashfan]

How dumb do you really have to be to not be able to solve this? I got it on my first try. It's process of elimination people! Come on! you don't even need paper. It's so easy. Just look for the person that it doesn't say what he has as a pet.

How long did it take it you?

 

[Russia]

How long did it take it you?

Right when I read all of it, I knew the answer. It's pretty simple if you ask me. I am not even that smart.

 

[Russia]

OK so the brit lived in a red house, swede keeps a dog, that's number one. dane drinks tea, green house is on the left of white house, green house owener drinks coffee, person who smokes pall mall rears birds, that's pet number 2, owner of the yellow house smokes dunhill, man living in right in centre drinks milk, what animal gives milk? That's number 3, ect, man smokes blend lives next to the one who keeps cats, that's pet number 4. Then what does the German have to have since it doesn't tell anything about him?

That's the way I think of it, I don't know about you guys.

 

[Clashfan]

OK so the brit lived in a red house, swede keeps a dog, that's number one. dane drinks tea, green house is on the left of white house, green house owener drinks coffee, person who smokes pall mall rears birds, that's pet number 2, owner of the yellow house smokes dunhill, man living in right in centre drinks milk, what animal gives milk? That's number 3, ect, man smokes blend lives next to the one who keeps cats, that's pet number 4. Then what does the German have to have since it doesn't tell anything about him?

That's the way I think of it, I don't know about you guys.

I don't really follow what you're saying, what do you mean it doesn't tell anything about the German? Also the person living in the center doesn't own cats.

 

[Russia]

I don't really follow what you're saying, what do you mean it doesn't tell anything about the German? Also the person living in the center doesn't own cats.

It's really hard to explain. Basically what I saw was that it was stated every pet for every person except the German.

 

[Proc]

OK so the brit lived in a red house, swede keeps a dog, that's number one. dane drinks tea, green house is on the left of white house, green house owener drinks coffee, person who smokes pall mall rears birds, that's pet number 2, owner of the yellow house smokes dunhill, man living in right in centre drinks milk, what animal gives milk? That's number 3, ect, man smokes blend lives next to the one who keeps cats, that's pet number 4. Then what does the German have to have since it doesn't tell anything about him?

That's the way I think of it, I don't know about you guys.

You made assumptions, you aren't supposed to do that, you are only supposed to go on the facts given. Also, what you say really isn't conclusive...you don't explain well enough to seem to get it. On topic: I probably could have figured this out without looking if I took longer...I spent about 20 minutes and found out about half of what I needed to figure it out, and got frustrated.

 

[MRHF]

this seems pretty easy actually, again, the process of elimination

 

[Trinity19]

It took me like 45 Minutes but i ended up with this as my final setup:

I got stuck for awhile when you stopped getting pieces of info and had to just combine a bunch of sections to make a much larger clue, so that took up the majority of my time but essentially i got the final conclusion that the German has the fish.
I know some people said it was him already but i decided to give a detailed reasoning towards why he was the owner.
I will be glad to provide any explanations towards any of the placements on this chart.

EDIT: I've seen people saying this is simple process of elimination when in actuality this is an assumption probability problem in which you have to decide what would be the best of two options and then if something is wrong how to fix that one. So anyone that said they simply looked at it and knew it was the German either looked this riddle's answer up or they have a mind that can not only compute an early high probability percentage and place all of the information in the correct area while also figuring out if they messed up in any way when making those guesses and fixing themselves accordingly. Highly unlikely.

 

[Determinate]

I got all the concrete clues done and solved, but lost heard when it came to the multiple possibilities that had to be reasoned and solved.

Maybe on a slow weekend I could have reasoned the whole thing, but my attention span was too short today.

 

[kandonasnx]

this is too confusing lol.