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[quote]Rico Suave wrote:
Riddle:
There are 4 prisoners and 1 guard. The prisoners are lined up in a straight line as shown (x’s and o’s are prisoners, Y is the guard, and | is a brick wall)

1 2 3 4
x o x | o
Y
---------->

The guard tells the 4 prisoners “I placed a hat on each one of your heads. There are 2 black hats, and 2 red hats. If one of you tell me which colour hat you are wearing, I will let you go free”

All prisoners are facing ONE way. They are not allowed to talk, communicate, touch their hats, stray from the line, turn around, signal to each other, look at their own hat, etc. They are only allowed to face the one way (in which the arrow shows). There is a brick wall in between 123 and 4. Noone can see through, over, around, or under the wall.

Here is how the guard placed the hats on the heads of the prisoners (R = red, B = black)

1 2 3 4
R B R | B
Y
----------->

Which, if any, prisoner will raise their hand and tell the guard what colour hat they are wearing? They only have one guess, and if they are wrong, they will be shot.[/quote]

Prisoner 2 knows that his hat must be black because the guy behind him didn’t say anything. I guess he’d just have to pray that prisoner 1 isn’t a mute or mentally handicapped.

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[quote]Rico Suave wrote:
In addition: If I say No to an answer, I’m not saying No to the fact that it is not that prisoner, but the reasoning behind it is wrong. Again, I’m not saying that number 4 is the right answer. Should have said this in my first post.[/quote]

This may be a bit far-fetched and most likely me just over-thinking this, but does reflection have anything to do with it?

Also are there other inmates around?

Also prisoner 4 is facing AWAY from the wall, correct?

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[quote]hockechamp14 wrote:

[quote]Rico Suave wrote:
Riddle:
There are 4 prisoners and 1 guard. The prisoners are lined up in a straight line as shown (x’s and o’s are prisoners, Y is the guard, and | is a brick wall)

1 2 3 4
x o x | o
Y
---------->

The guard tells the 4 prisoners “I placed a hat on each one of your heads. There are 2 black hats, and 2 red hats. If one of you tell me which colour hat you are wearing, I will let you go free”

All prisoners are facing ONE way. They are not allowed to talk, communicate, touch their hats, stray from the line, turn around, signal to each other, look at their own hat, etc. They are only allowed to face the one way (in which the arrow shows). There is a brick wall in between 123 and 4. Noone can see through, over, around, or under the wall.

Here is how the guard placed the hats on the heads of the prisoners (R = red, B = black)

1 2 3 4
R B R | B
Y
----------->

Which, if any, prisoner will raise their hand and tell the guard what colour hat they are wearing? They only have one guess, and if they are wrong, they will be shot.[/quote]

Prisoner 2 knows that his hat must be black because the guy behind him didn’t say anything. I guess he’d just have to pray that prisoner 1 isn’t a mute or mentally handicapped.[/quote]

That doesnt make sense.

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None of them will raise their hands?? I dunno…give me the answer!

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Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.

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[quote]Rico Suave wrote:
Riddle:
There are 4 prisoners and 1 guard. The prisoners are lined up in a straight line as shown (x’s and o’s are prisoners, Y is the guard, and | is a brick wall)

1 2 3 4
x o x | o
Y
---------->

The guard tells the 4 prisoners “I placed a hat on each one of your heads. There are 2 black hats, and 2 red hats. If one of you tell me which colour hat you are wearing, I will let you go free”

All prisoners are facing ONE way. They are not allowed to talk, communicate, touch their hats, stray from the line, turn around, signal to each other, look at their own hat, etc. They are only allowed to face the one way (in which the arrow shows). There is a brick wall in between 123 and 4. Noone can see through, over, around, or under the wall.

Here is how the guard placed the hats on the heads of the prisoners (R = red, B = black)

1 2 3 4
R B R | B
Y
----------->

Which, if any, prisoner will raise their hand and tell the guard what colour hat they are wearing? They only have one guess, and if they are wrong, they will be shot.[/quote]

Prisoner 2 would call out, because he would know that if his hat were the same color as 3’s hat, then 1 would have known that his own hat was the opposite color of 3 and 2’s hat and would have called out. Since 1 did not speak then 2 knows that his hat is the opposite color of 3’s

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[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? .[/quote]

Language is the answer. “The. English. Language.”

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[quote]Brother Chris wrote:

[quote]Rico Suave wrote:
Riddle:
There are 4 prisoners and 1 guard. The prisoners are lined up in a straight line as shown (x’s and o’s are prisoners, Y is the guard, and | is a brick wall)

1 2 3 4
x o x | o
Y
---------->

The guard tells the 4 prisoners “I placed a hat on each one of your heads. There are 2 black hats, and 2 red hats. If one of you tell me which colour hat you are wearing, I will let you go free”

All prisoners are facing ONE way. They are not allowed to talk, communicate, touch their hats, stray from the line, turn around, signal to each other, look at their own hat, etc. They are only allowed to face the one way (in which the arrow shows). There is a brick wall in between 123 and 4. Noone can see through, over, around, or under the wall.

Here is how the guard placed the hats on the heads of the prisoners (R = red, B = black)

1 2 3 4
R B R | B
Y
----------->

Which, if any, prisoner will raise their hand and tell the guard what colour hat they are wearing? They only have one guess, and if they are wrong, they will be shot.[/quote]

Prisoner 2 would call out, because he would know that if his hat were the same color as 3’s hat, then 1 would have known that his own hat was the opposite color of 3 and 2’s hat and would have called out. Since 1 did not speak then 2 knows that his hat is the opposite color of 3’s[/quote]

lol Hockechamp said that and I said he didnt make sense lol. I’m a retard. Sry Hockechamp!

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ALBERT EINSTEIN’S RIDDLE

There are no tricks, just pure logic. Time yourself. I did it in 38 minutes, but I answered a quick phone call during that time and got distracted and had to start over. My business partner did it in 24 minutes, a fact of which he likes to remind me, fucking bastard. LOL

  1. On a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
  2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
  3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

  1. The Brit lives in a red house.
  2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
  3. The Dane drinks tea.
  4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
  5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
  6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
  7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
  8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
  9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
  10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
  11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
  12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
  13. The German smokes Prince.
  14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
  15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.

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So long, and thanks for the fish.

-S

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[quote]angry chicken wrote:
ALBERT EINSTEIN’S RIDDLE

There are no tricks, just pure logic. Time yourself. I did it in 38 minutes, but I answered a quick phone call during that time and got distracted and had to start over. My business partner did it in 24 minutes, a fact of which he likes to remind me, fucking bastard. LOL

  1. On a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
  2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
  3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

  1. The Brit lives in a red house.
  2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
  3. The Dane drinks tea.
  4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
  5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
  6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
  7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
  8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
  9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
  10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
  11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
  12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
  13. The German smokes Prince.
  14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
  15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.[/quote]

There is not enough information to solve this.

While it is true that the German pet is unknown after deducing everything else you are never told that the fifth pet is indeed a fish, you assume it is because you are told that is what your looking for. Only 2% understood that looking for the fish doesn’t make the unknown pet a fish.

Einstein was a dick and attempting to prove his superiority.

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[quote]JackDanials wrote:

[quote]angry chicken wrote:
ALBERT EINSTEIN’S RIDDLE

There are no tricks, just pure logic. Time yourself. I did it in 38 minutes, but I answered a quick phone call during that time and got distracted and had to start over. My business partner did it in 24 minutes, a fact of which he likes to remind me, fucking bastard. LOL

  1. On a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
  2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
  3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

  1. The Brit lives in a red house.
  2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
  3. The Dane drinks tea.
  4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
  5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
  6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
  7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
  8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
  9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
  10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
  11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
  12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
  13. The German smokes Prince.
  14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
  15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.[/quote]

There is not enough information to solve this.

While it is true that the German pet is unknown after deducing everything else you are never told that the fifth pet is indeed a fish, you assume it is because you are told that is what your looking for. Only 2% understood that looking for the fish doesn’t make the unknown pet a fish.

Einstein was a dick and attempting to prove his superiority.[/quote]

That’s not what he said… But congratulations on deducing the owner of the fish! I guess the people that came up with your version of the answer are smarter than Einstein! Congratulations.

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Is that picture shooped? Because I’m assuming you copied this riddle from a website, which claims Einstein wrote it in the “early 19th century” which would mean the early 1800s, then this picture has a chalkboard filled with differential equations and “German = Fish” just randomly placed on the bottom (differential equations are not required to solve this riddle, I think you knew that though).

For these reasons I think your original posting of the riddle was not the riddle, but rather discovering that Einstein did not in fact write this riddle was the real riddle. You can pm me if you need mailing information for my prize :slight_smile:

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[quote]angry chicken wrote:

[quote]JackDanials wrote:

[quote]angry chicken wrote:
ALBERT EINSTEIN’S RIDDLE

There are no tricks, just pure logic. Time yourself. I did it in 38 minutes, but I answered a quick phone call during that time and got distracted and had to start over. My business partner did it in 24 minutes, a fact of which he likes to remind me, fucking bastard. LOL

  1. On a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
  2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
  3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

  1. The Brit lives in a red house.
  2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
  3. The Dane drinks tea.
  4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
  5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
  6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
  7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
  8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
  9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
  10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
  11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
  12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
  13. The German smokes Prince.
  14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
  15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.[/quote]

There is not enough information to solve this.

While it is true that the German pet is unknown after deducing everything else you are never told that the fifth pet is indeed a fish, you assume it is because you are told that is what your looking for. Only 2% understood that looking for the fish doesn’t make the unknown pet a fish.

Einstein was a dick and attempting to prove his superiority.[/quote]

That’s not what he said… But congratulations on deducing the owner of the fish! I guess the people that came up with your version of the answer are smarter than Einstein! Congratulations.[/quote]

I’m not sure anyone will ever be smarter than Einstein. I just remember reading that he at times was a pretty big jerk.

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[quote]JackDanials wrote:

[quote]angry chicken wrote:

[quote]JackDanials wrote:

[quote]angry chicken wrote:
ALBERT EINSTEIN’S RIDDLE

There are no tricks, just pure logic. Time yourself. I did it in 38 minutes, but I answered a quick phone call during that time and got distracted and had to start over. My business partner did it in 24 minutes, a fact of which he likes to remind me, fucking bastard. LOL

  1. On a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.
  2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
  3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

  1. The Brit lives in a red house.
  2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
  3. The Dane drinks tea.
  4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
  5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
  6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
  7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
  8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
  9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
  10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
  11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
  12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
  13. The German smokes Prince.
  14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
  15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.[/quote]

There is not enough information to solve this.

While it is true that the German pet is unknown after deducing everything else you are never told that the fifth pet is indeed a fish, you assume it is because you are told that is what your looking for. Only 2% understood that looking for the fish doesn’t make the unknown pet a fish.

Einstein was a dick and attempting to prove his superiority.[/quote]

That’s not what he said… But congratulations on deducing the owner of the fish! I guess the people that came up with your version of the answer are smarter than Einstein! Congratulations.[/quote]

I’m not sure anyone will ever be smarter than Einstein. I just remember reading that he at times was a pretty big jerk. [/quote]

Einstein was smart, but he wasn’t the end all be all of intelligence. He’s as much legend as fact in people’s minds. He was wrong about a lot of things too.

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[quote]Brother Chris wrote:

[quote]Rico Suave wrote:
Riddle:
There are 4 prisoners and 1 guard. The prisoners are lined up in a straight line as shown (x’s and o’s are prisoners, Y is the guard, and | is a brick wall)

1 2 3 4
x o x | o
Y
---------->

The guard tells the 4 prisoners “I placed a hat on each one of your heads. There are 2 black hats, and 2 red hats. If one of you tell me which colour hat you are wearing, I will let you go free”

All prisoners are facing ONE way. They are not allowed to talk, communicate, touch their hats, stray from the line, turn around, signal to each other, look at their own hat, etc. They are only allowed to face the one way (in which the arrow shows). There is a brick wall in between 123 and 4. Noone can see through, over, around, or under the wall.

Here is how the guard placed the hats on the heads of the prisoners (R = red, B = black)

1 2 3 4
R B R | B
Y
----------->

Which, if any, prisoner will raise their hand and tell the guard what colour hat they are wearing? They only have one guess, and if they are wrong, they will be shot.[/quote]

Prisoner 2 would call out, because he would know that if his hat were the same color as 3’s hat, then 1 would have known that his own hat was the opposite color of 3 and 2’s hat and would have called out. Since 1 did not speak then 2 knows that his hat is the opposite color of 3’s[/quote]

Actually, if 2 gets to call out his hat is black, 3 will also be able to deduce that his is red.

Oh, and the whole thing requires the prisoners to know the exact set up.

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hey, the congrats are mine! (you know, the snappy joke about me obviously being german, while citing doug adams, whine whine?)

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[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
hey, the congrats are mine! (you know, the snappy joke about me obviously being german, while citing doug adams, whine whine?)[/quote]

I am afraid you are way to clever to gain a wide audience.

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[quote]JackDanials wrote:

I’m not sure anyone will ever be smarter than Einstein. I just remember reading that he at times was a pretty big jerk. [/quote]

Who isn’t?

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The german owns the fish (he also lives in a green house, fourth on the street, likes to drink coffee and smoke prince - yes I stalk him!). Approx 19 minutes. (I didn’t look at the time until after I wrote down all the nationalities, house colors, beverages, cigars, and pets… so more like 21-ish minutes?)

For the record I had 4 different pieces of paper to solve it. Haha