Einstein's Intelligence Quiz ?

Rockazella

I felt like showing up my mom one night, so I went searching for online IQ tests. While searching I came across this thing:

http://www.business.uiuc.edu/broker/iq.htm

I'm curious to know if this is legit or not. Has anyone heard of, or tried this before?

Anyway, if it is, or even if it isn't by Einstein, I urge you all to give it a shot. You'll feel like your 'The Man' (or woman) when/if you complete it. I know I'm the man![a)]

Also...keep track of how long it takes you so you can be put in your place[6)]

Monique

After 30 min of puzzling, and coming close to the answer, I made a stupid mistake and have to start overagain :( Pfuw! It is not an eazy puzzel :)

Zantra

right off the bat without doing any figuring I can say it's solvable with a little bit of abstract thinking. I'll let you know

FZ+

About 15 minutes and a small piece of paper...

Highlight below if you really want it...

< rouf esuoh ni namreg eht >

EDIT: Stupid mistake. I got the right answer, but typed it up wrong. No seriously [;)]. Maybe that's a mark of a genius? [:D]

Monique

How much CPU do you've got?

Gale

20 minutes, and a lot of paper. I couldn't pick which method was best, so redid it like 3 times... how do we know if our answer's right though?

edit- i realized fz posted his answer... mine only half matches though. is there an official answer somewhere?

Rockazella

There's something troubling about part of FZ's answer.

Well of course...my answer is the official answer[:)]

If you really want to know if your answer is correct, solve it for every house. If you don't feel like solving for every house, Leme know and I'll just send it to you (Ive got much empathy for the lazy)

Rockazella

I felt the same way when I first read it. After spending 20 minutes trying to think of abstract ways to go about solving it, I gave that up for good old dependable trial and error. If you can come up with an abstract route to the answer, definitely consider yourself in that top 2%.
Good luck!

Monique

Yup, I got to the same answer. How did you do it so fast FZ+? I solved the whole thing for every house and it took me 30 min.

recon

I found the answer in around 30 minutes too. This was mostly due to mistakes I made (I kept thinking that Blue Master, Blend and Prince were Beers!). I think the test is a little(!) bit culture-biased as I have never heard of those cigars before, and since I am from far-away Borneo (the country Brunei to be exact), I obviously had a little difficulty. Then again, you could blame me for not having made up a proper list of the beverages, cigars, pets and Nationalities and scratch them of as I filled them into the table.

But apart from that, I don't think it was too challenging. If I, an ordinary 14-year-old, can do it, so can any adult. Einstein's assumption that only the top 2% of people can do it must be wrong! Here's a table of my results:

Yellow Blue Red Green White
Nationality Norwegian Dane British German Swede
Beverage Water Tea Milk Coffee Beer
Cigar Dunhill Blend Pall Mall Prince Blue Master
Pet Cat Horse Bird Fish Dog

recon

Sorry about my table. Anyway, it is probably for the best as it would make it harder for you to read, thus encouraging you to tackle the problem yourself first!

Monique

We have the same nationality for the fish, but my table is very different..

You say: blue norwegian water dunhill cat
I say: blue horse tea blend 2 dane
For the norwegian I DO have the same as you, just in the yellow house. I guess you didn't read the last clue correctly, the Norwegian lives NEXT to the blue house :) that is the mistake I made the first time around too :)

What do the others have for the blue house?

bogdan

This is the answer...
http://www.astrohoroscopes.com/puzzl...uizanswer.html

Njorl

26 minutes

I replaced everything with numbers in an attempt to force more abstract reasoning, but it didn't work. I just filled in the table and looked for the next piece of "certain" information.

Njorl

Zantra

huh? I'm not an einstein if that's what you mean...hehe

Monique

That's what I meant [:D] proposing to solve the problem by a little abstract thinking, my system would overload :)

Gale

well, my answers mathed that link. I solved for everything, it really wasn't that difficult. I'm pretty decent with logic puzzles so i just set up a sort of table thingie. Anyways, that link isn't the same as fz's or monique...

But yeah, i'd have to say that a lot more people can solve that problem than 2% or whatever.