Welcoming 2010 - 01.01
Einstein's Problem
The author of this problem is Albert Einstein who said that 98% of the people in the world couldn't solve it.
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| There are 5 houses (along the street) in 5 different colors:
blue, green, red, white and yellow. | |
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| In each house lives a person of a different nationality:
Brit, Dane, German, Norwegian and Swede. | |
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| These 5 owners
drink a certain beverage: beer, coffee, milk, tea and water, smoke a certain brand of cigar: Blue Master, Dunhill, Pall Mall, Prince and blend, and keep a certain pet: cat, bird, dog, fish and horse. | |
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| No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage. | |
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| The Brit lives in a red house. | |
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| The Swede keeps dogs as pets. | |
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| The Dane drinks tea. | |
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| The green house is on the left of the white house (next to it). | |
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| The green house owner drinks coffee. | |
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| The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. | |
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| The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill. | |
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| The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk. | |
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| The Norwegian lives in the first house. | |
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| The man who smokes blend lives next to the one who keeps cats. | |
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| The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. | |
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| The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer. | |
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| The German smokes Prince. | |
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| The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. | |
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| The man who smokes blend has a neighbor who drinks water. | |
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| The question is: Who keeps fish? |
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If you didn't solve the problem, try to continue on your own as early in the solution as you can.
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Welcoming 2010
People all around the world gathered in groups large and small last night to usher out the previous year, and welcome the arrival of 2010. Under a rare New Year's Eve Blue Moon, crowds watched fireworks, cheered, made resolutions, and counted down to midnight. 2010 is the year of the Tiger in the Chinese zodiac, signifying a year of bravery and courage. Collected here are some photographs of people across the earth as they welcomed the new year in many different ways. (38 photos total)
St. Sylvester mummers (Silvesterklausen) perform in the village of Urnaesch in the region of Appenzell, December 31 2009. Three very different groups of mummers distinguished as the beautiful (Schoene), the ugly (Wueschte) and the less ugly (Schoe-Wueschte) dressed up in costumes made of twigs, cones, mosses and dried leaves proceed from house to house in small groups singing and ringing their bells wishing families a prosperous year. (REUTERS/Miro Kuzmanovic) #
New Year's Eve fireworks based on the theme "Awaken the Spirit" explode over the Sydney Harbour from six barges three hours before midnight on December 31, 2009. Over 1.5 million Sydneysiders and tourists were expected to line the harbour foreshores to watch 120,000 pyrotechnics usher in New Year's Day. (KRYSTLE WRIGHT/AFP/Getty Images) #
Russians celebrate the New Year on Red Square in Moscow, with the Kremlin in the background, right, and St. Basil's cathedral in background, left, Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. Tens of thousands of people gathered on the Square to celebrate the new year, and view the fireworks as the clock on the Kremlin's Spassky Tower, right, struck midnight. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel) #
"Sushi," portrayed by female impersonator Gary Marion, dangles high above New Year's Eve revelers in a giant reproduction of a woman's high heel at the Bourbon Street Pub late Thursday, December 31, 2009 in Key West, Florida. The Red Shoe Drop has become a Key West tradition to herald the arrival of the new year, answering New York's Times Square ball drop. (ANDY NEWMAN/AFP/Getty Images) #
Fireworks light the sky in front of Mayon Volcano during New Year's celebrations in Legazpi city, Albay province, south of Manila January 1, 2010. Mayon Volcano, known for its near-perfect cone shape in the coconut-growing central Bicol region, has been spewing ash and burning mud and rocks for more than two weeks. (REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco) #
People admire the moment the sun rises above Mount Fuji, which is known locally as the "Diamond Fuji", from atop Ryugatake mountain in Fujikawaguchiko town, southwest of Tokyo on New Year's Day January 1, 2010. Mount Fuji, at 3,776 metres (12,388 ft), is believed to be sacred and is seen as a symbol of good luck, more so during the New Year period. (REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao) #
A rescue diver watches as a man leaps from a bridge into the River Dove during a traditional New Year's Day annual charity event in Mappleton, central England, January 1, 2010. Teams paddle down a half-mile stretch of the river and then jump off a bridge into the River Dove, one of the coldest rivers in the United Kingdom. Contestants then have to run 500 yards to a pub. (REUTERS/Darren Staples) #
More links and information
World rings in the new year - UKPA, 01/01/10
Crowds in Times Square Celebrate 2010 - NYTimes.com, 01/01/10