Posted by Junelli 4:39 PM
Several Puzzles. Let's start with an easy one...

1. There are 6 eggs in a basket. Six people each take one egg. How can it be that one egg is left in the basket?

2. Acting on an anonymous phone call, the police raid a house to arrest a suspected murderer. They don't know what he looks like, but they know his name is John. Inside they find a carpenter, a taxi driver, a car mechanic, and a fireman playing cards. Without even asking his name, they immediately arrest the fireman. How do they know they've got their man?

And now for the really hard one...
(supposedly authored by Albert Einstein)

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

3 Comment(s):

Posted by  Junelli, at 9:59 AM, June 21, 2006  

1. The last egg is carried off inside the basket.

2. Correct. The other people are women.

3. The German owns the fish

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Posted by  Anonymous, at 4:44 PM, June 21, 2006  

The German owns the fish, liver in a green house which is the 4th house, drinks coffee and smokes prince.

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Posted by  Anonymous, at 10:00 AM, June 22, 2006  

Six people each take on egg...Five sets of six people take one egg each? You didn't say how many sets of six people there were.

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