Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeeds.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!24.30.200.2.MISMATCH!news-east.rr.com!news.rr.com!cyclone.kc.rr.com!news.kc.rr.com!cyclone.austin.rr.com!cyclone2.austin.rr.com!typhoon.austin.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: James McCartney Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.dylan,comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Einstein's Riddle References: <98hihm$fs4$1@uranium.btinternet.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.0 (PPC) Message-ID: Lines: 54 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 02:41:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.160.28.206 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.austin.rr.com 984537661 24.160.28.206 (Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:41:01 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:41:01 CST Organization: Road Runner - Texas Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.ai.neural-nets:67561 comp.lang.apl:29386 comp.lang.awk:17153 comp.lang.beta:12755 comp.lang.cobol:102625 comp.lang.dylan:24176 comp.lang.forth:78564 In article <98hihm$fs4$1@uranium.btinternet.com>, "Virulent" wrote: > It took me under 20 minutes, notepad (that's the extent of computer > usage!) > and a pen & paper to solve this. It was actually kinda fun =) > > )=( )=( )=( )=( )=( > Norwgn. Dane Brit German Sweed > Yellow Blue Red Green White > Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer > Dunhill Blends Pall Mall Prince Blue Masters > Cats Horse Birds FISH Dogs > > The german keeps the Fish > yes I solved this by hand as well. I applied the hints in this order. All hints except for the one combination noted had only one possible result. The Norwegian lives in the first house. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. The man living in the center house drinks milk. The green house is on the left of the white house. The green house's owner drinks coffee. The Brit lives in the red house. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill. The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. [ (this is the only set requiring a simultaneous resolution, but there were only two possibilities to test.) The Dane drinks tea. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water. ] The German smokes Prince. The Swede keeps dogs as pets. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats. (this leaves the only empty spot for fish in the German's column)