Albert Einstein wrote this riddle. He was quoted saying he believed that 98% of the world could not solve it. Are you in the top 2% of intelligent people in the world?

There are no tricks - just pure logic.

1. There are 5 houses in 5 different colors, all in a row.
2. In each house lives a different person with a different nationality.
3. These 5 people drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.
4. No person has the same pet, smokes the same brand of cigar, or drinks the same beverage.

The question is, who owns the fish?

• The Brit lives in the red house.
• The Swede has a dog.
• The Dane drinks tea.
• The green house is on the left of the white house.
• The green house’s owner drinks coffee.
• The person who smokes Pall Ball has a bird.
• The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
• The man living in the center house drinks milk.
• The Norwegian lives in the first house.
• The man who smokes Blends lives next to the cat owner.
• The man who owns a horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
• The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
• The German smokes Prince.
• The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
• The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

(Answer on next page.)

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