Can you solve Einstein's famous riddle?

What did Albert Einstein do in his spare time? 

If this quiz is any indication, he spent his time looking for ways to confuse people just for the fun of it!

Einstein's Riddle, also known as the 'Zebra Puzzle', has been around for many years. There are so many possible solutions to the riddle that people never agree on which one is right. 

It's all about the occupants of the houses on a street. With only a few clues, Einstein prompted people to answer one question: which of the neighbours owns a fish?

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Have a crack at it and see if you can find out who the fish lives with.

The Situation

•  There are houses in five different colours.

• In each house lives a person with a different nationality.

• These five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.

•  No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar, or drink the same beverage.
  

The question is: Who owns the fish?

Here are some clues:

• The Brit lives in the red house
• The Swede keeps dogs as pets
• 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 Mall rears birds
• The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
• The man living in the centre house drinks milk
• The Norwegian lives in the first house
• The man who smokes blend lives next to the one who keeps cats
• The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
• The owner who smokes BlueMaster drinks beer
• The German smokes Prince
• The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
• The man who smokes blend has a neighbour who drinks water
  

So, how can you find the answer? That's simple: take all the clues and fit them into a grid, like so:

Rule out all the possible nationalities, drinks, cigar choices and pets, and you should come to the solution very easily, right? Wrong. 

This riddle is all about reading carefully and paying close attention to detail. 

Try your luck with Einstein's game, and share your results in the comments section below. 

But you should know: only 2% of people who play this game get the correct answer!

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