Solve This Einstein Riddle

[Jacks]

If you like these sorts of puzzles you might like this.
http://www.str8ts.com/

[rain_e]

15 minutes and came up with the answer mentioned.

[SebC]

My favorite puzzle is the self-referential aptitude test. And yes, I got the same answer.

Spoiler!

The German, in the 4th house.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

My guess...

Spoiler!

German, in the green house, drinking coffee, smoking Prince has the fish

Spoiler!

Interesting. I had placed the German with the fish, but in the white house instead. The Swede was put into the green house, but maybe it doesn't matter.

[opendoor]

Originally Posted by Wormius

Spoiler!

Interesting. I had placed the German with the fish, but in the white house instead. The Swede was put into the green house, but maybe it doesn't matter.

Spoiler!

Whoever is in the green house has to drink coffee (rule 5). Beer and Bluemasters are tied together (rule 12) and eventually through the process of elimination after going through the rules, the Swede is the only one who hasn't been assigned either a drink or a smoke which means they get the beer/bluemaster combo which eliminates them from contention for the green house.

[T@T]

Took me about 20 minutes and 2 pieces of paper. first I tried the straight down approach and gave up with too many crossing arrows then I went with left to right blocks with eliminations. checked with spoilers answers and got it right.

Hats off to anyone who can do this in their head, would be very very impressive.

[SebC]

Spoiler!

The German lives in a greenhouse, therefore his pet is a plant and nobody owns the fish.

[Daradon]

Yup, we used to do puzzles like this in Ed Plus in elementary all the time, they were my favorite. The grids were premade in the books/worksheets we used but that's really the key. Just make a grid. You start with a certainty, like clue 3, 'The Dane drinks tea' and use that and logic an elimination to fill in more and more information around that.

The puzzles obviously get more difficult the more variables you put in and the number and types of clues you put in. When we first started them in grade 1, it would often be a group of four with two variables, where this one is five and five.

EDIT: Oops, this was supposed to quote annasuave, hence the 'yup' starting the post.

[CaptainCrunch]

pfft I bet all you 99%er sat up half the night solving this. I merely went to my accounting department and said solve this or I'll have you fired and have your children killed.

Its obvious that the answer is Mr Mustard in the conservatory with a candlestick.

Peasants

[combustiblefuel]

Originally Posted by darklord700

That's the correct spelling from my motherland.

Doesn't mattet tho. His name is still not spelt that way.

[combustiblefuel]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

pfft I bet all you 99%er sat up half the night solving this. I merely went to my accounting department and said solve this or I'll have you fired and have your children killed.

Its obvious that the answer is Mr Mustard in the conservatory with a candlestick.

Peasants

Uhh.. Excuse me it is Clearly Processor Plum in the Celler with a lead pipe.

[jwslam]

Originally Posted by combustiblefuel

Doesn't mattet tho. His name is still not spelt that way.

Matter does not end with a "T", and tho is spelt with a "ugh" at the end. Good try THOUGH.

[troutman]

Fish do not belong to us. We belong to the water.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

Didn't bother solving this. But I doubt it's that hard. I used to have a full book of puzzles like this as a kid, and would solve them using a grid. I could probably dig up that puzzle book still and show the solutions of the genius that was 10-year-old me

[combustiblefuel]

Originally Posted by jwslam

Matter does not end with a "T", and tho is spelt with a "ugh" at the end. Good try THOUGH.

Was drunk at the time of posting. Using the spelling though as Tho is actually an acceptable variant when writing informally.