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 Are you among the world’s smartest two percent?
The below riddle was supposedly written in the late 1800s by Albert Einstein, and it is claimed that 98 percent of the population cannot solve it.
While it’s hard to find documentation supporting either of these claims, it’s still a fun little puzzle.
Tip: Grab a paper and pencil. This will be difficult to work out in your head.
Here are the facts:
In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
In each house lives a person of a different nationality.
These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.
The riddle is: Who owns the fish?
The 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 next to, and on the left of the White house.
5.The owner of the green house 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 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 man who smokes Dunhill.
12.The man 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 Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.
Scroll down to see the answer.
Answer: The German owns the fish.
Solution:
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Popular Brain Tips 
I got it! I love logic puzzles and am a visual person. I drew 5 houses and numbered them one to five. Next I used a pen to write in the information that I knew was associated with which house and blank lines for information that I didn't have confirmed. Then I made a list of all the catagoried items that are mentioned in the riddle and hints (ie, Pets, House Color, Cigars, etc.). After that I used a pencil to fill in the blank spaces in my chart and used process of ellimination to fill in the blanks. You have to take a risk in deciding where some of the secondary information goes but stick with it! It is do-able!
