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[Krishna]

The answer is German

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[alvain]

solved at last spending one hour it's german yeh

Edited by alvain, 01 October 2009 - 04:46 PM.

[Dawid]

Spoiler for 10% know the answer because 2% figured it out

The coffee drinking, Prince smoking German in the green house at the 4th or 5th in the row (depending on which side of the street, you are walking down, is the row) is the only one without a defined animal after all the statements. The water drinking, Dunhill smoking, Norwegian keeps cats in his yellow house at the beginning of the row. The tea drinking, Blends smoking, Dane keeps horses at his blue house, 2nd in the row. The milk drinking, Pall Mall smoking, Brit keeps birds in his red house in the middle of the row. If you are looking down the street and the row is on your right hand side of the street, then the beer drinking, Blue Master smoking, Swede keeps dogs in his white house at the 4th in the row, else this is this coffee drinking, Prince smoking, German in the green house which very probably keeps fish. Yes, based on perspective, it is a toss up as to whether the Swede or the German is at the end of the row.
`````W...G`````
````G.....W````
```R.......R```
``B.........B``
`Y...........Y`

Edited by Dawid, 06 October 2009 - 10:01 AM.

[11795251]

Spoiler for SPOILER

There is an answer, it is the German. There is no need to assume that everyone lives on different streets or fish isn't one of the pets, just answer the damn question. Make a matrix and fill it in, if you do this right you will get a replica of what is under the solution section, not creative theories that say everybody lives on different streets and there are more than five houses or the fish isn't one of the five pets. Why does everybody have to have a problem with the question, I worked hard to find the answer and found it.

[zaidi]

It's not a riddle..but a Mathematical Puzzle. 6 unknowns x 5 = 30 answers. I've decoded those 15 hints and decode 15 Linear Equations + 6 non-equals:

B ≠ S ≠ D ≠ N ≠G ...(i)
c ≠ d ≠ h ≠ f ≠ b' ...(ii)
d' ≠ p ≠ α ≠ β ≠ p' ..(iii)
w° ≠ r ≠ b ≠ g ≠ y ..(iv)
t ≠ c' ≠ m ≠ w' ≠ ε ..(v)
1 ≠ 2 ≠ 3 ≠ 4 ≠ 5 ....(vi)

B = r ......(1)
S = d .....(2)
D = t .....(3)
g <> w°.....(4)
g = c' .......(5)
p = b' .......(6)
y = d' .......(7)
m = 3 .......(8)
N = 1 ........(9)
α <> c <> α..(10) { Einstein broke the Law of Math.
h <> d'<> h..(11) { broke it again.
β = ε ...............(12)
G = p' ..............(13)
b <> N <> b ......(14) {broke it again.
w' <> α <> w' ...(15) {Einstein broke it for the 4th. time!

Derivative Equations:

From (9) & (14): N = 1 <> b ......(16) by 'faking' (14).

From (4) & (5): g = c' <> w° ......(17)

From (8), (16) & (17): N = 1 <> b <> m =3 <> g = c' <> w° .....(18)

From (7), (11) & (18): y = d' <> h ..........(19) By 'faking' (11)

From (iv), (18) & (19): y = d' = N = 1 <> b = h <> m = 3 = r <> g = c' <> w° ........(20)

From (1), (vi), (15) & (20): w' = y = d' = N = 1 <> 2 = b = h = α <> m = 3 = r = B <> 4 = g =c' <> w° = 5 .........(21) by 'faking' (15)

From (iii), (v), (3), (12) & 21: w' = y = d' = N = 1 <> 2 = b = h = α = t = D <> m = 3 = r = B <> 4 = g =c' <> w° = 5 = β = ε ........(22)

From (iii), (13) & (22): w' = y = d' = N = 1 <> 2 = b = h = α = t = D <> m = 3 = r = B <> 4 = g = c' = G = p' <> w° = 5 = β = ε = S = d ......(23)

From (ii), (6) & (23): w' = y = d' = N = 1 <> 2 = b = h = α = t = D <> m = 3 = r = B = p = b' <> 4 = g = c' = G = p' <> w° = 5 = β = ε = S = d ......(24)

and finally by 'faking' (10):

From (10) dan (24): Notice that α <> c <> α being replaced by c <> α

c = w' = y = d' = N = 1 <> 2 = b = h = α = t = D <> m = 3 = r = B = p = b' <> f = 4 = g = c' = G = p' <> w° = 5 = β = ε = S = d ......(25) COMPLETE & FINAL ANSWERS.

Where, assuming:-

B = BRITISH
S = SWEDISH
D = DANISH
N = NORWEGIAN
G = GERMAN

w° = White House
r = Red House
b = Blue House
g = Green House
y = Yellow House

1 = 1st. House
2 = 2nd. House
3 = House in the Middle
4 = 4th. House
5 = The Last House

c = cats
d = dogs
h = horses
f = fish
b' = birds

d' = Dunhill
p = Pall Mall
α = Blends
β = Blue Master
p' = Prince

t = tea
c' = coffee
m = milk
w' = water
ε = beer

As per Equation (25) I got all the 30 answers right (include GERMAN=Fish) in 3 minutes and also proved that Einstein made a felony (4 non-mathematical equations & 4 fakes) by breaking the Law of Mathematics.