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lisa
#1 Posted : Friday, April 29, 2011 3:01:12 PM
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Here's a riddle that Einstein allegedly wrote as a child. Can you solve it?

In a street there are 5 houses, painted 5 different colors. In each house lives a person of different nationality None of these 5 homeowners plays the same sport, drinks the same kind of beverage or keeps the same different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

Clues:

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 plays football rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house plays baseball.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who plays volleyball lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who plays baseball.
12. The man who plays tennis drinks beer.
13. The German plays ice hockey.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who plays volleyball has a neighbour who drinks water.

keechway
#2 Posted : Friday, April 29, 2011 3:59:57 PM
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The onwer of te fish is the German

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