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zomgwtf
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I don't see how the location of the houses or your POV of these houses matters. It always comes down to the same homes owning the same things.
Einstein's Intelligence Quiz ?
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The discussion centers around an online IQ test attributed to Einstein, specifically a logic puzzle involving five houses, their owners, pets, and beverages. Participants express curiosity about the puzzle's legitimacy and share their experiences attempting to solve it. Many emphasize the need for abstract thinking and logical deduction, with some participants achieving solutions in varying times, often using trial and error or structured tables to organize information. There is debate over the claim that only 2% of the population can solve it, with several participants arguing that the puzzle is not particularly difficult and that more people could solve it with enough time. Some suggest that the puzzle's wording creates ambiguity regarding the existence of a fish, leading to differing interpretations of the solution. Ultimately, the conversation highlights the challenge of logic puzzles, the methods used to approach them, and the subjective nature of intelligence assessments.
- #182
Bioclay
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I hear you, although if one provides an answer to the riddle as far as who owns the fish one has to deal with constraints 4,8,9,10,11,14,15 using relative words such as left, middle, first, next, next, next, neighbor respectively. Usually, this leads to a default placement/location of the homes (left-to-right usually) to establish a POV, permitting one to provide an answer while satisfying the constraints (usually the German). Just as an example, I say the Norwegian owns the Fish, but given the location and POV I chose to implement he lives in the yellow house, drinks milk and smokes dunhill. It’s like working the problem backwards, where you select the answer and make assumptions to satisfy that outcome while conforming to and satisfying the rather loosely defined constraints we have to work with (1-15). That pretty much forces one to place the homes in locations and fixes a POV.
A wacky way of looking at this would be to consider each house as an astronomical object bound together by gravity and/or in a soup of gravitational fields (mass etc). Each house moving around in space relative to any particular object you select (consider that your POV) and each other (one of the houses could quite possibly be your POV). One could theoretically select a point in space whereby to view all 5 houses and “eventually” (an unspecified amount of time haha) they just might satisfy constraints 4,8,9,10,11,14 and 15.
Thoughts?
A wacky way of looking at this would be to consider each house as an astronomical object bound together by gravity and/or in a soup of gravitational fields (mass etc). Each house moving around in space relative to any particular object you select (consider that your POV) and each other (one of the houses could quite possibly be your POV). One could theoretically select a point in space whereby to view all 5 houses and “eventually” (an unspecified amount of time haha) they just might satisfy constraints 4,8,9,10,11,14 and 15.
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- #183
Mazer Rackham
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Took me about 30 minutes
My first step was to start with the order of houses completely
Then listed the two beverages, Two nationalities, one smoke, and one pet I knew for a fact.
After that it was going back and forth between the questions and the order in which the beverages/nationalities/drinks/pets came.
My first step was to start with the order of houses completely
Then listed the two beverages, Two nationalities, one smoke, and one pet I knew for a fact.
After that it was going back and forth between the questions and the order in which the beverages/nationalities/drinks/pets came.
The German owns the Fish
- #184
aldridge
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The answer has to be #12 because it says...The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer. the owner of what? A fish?
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misskas
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here you go :) enjoy!
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Willowz
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SOme of you have got to move on to... SUDOKU! Yeah, the concept of this game and Sudoku are the... SAME! :D
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jcbri8z
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[PLAIN]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs270.snc4/39819_1551450587289_1265865722_31578063_6247620_n.jpg
I got it in like an hour. Am I still part of the 2% that can solve this problem?
I got it in like an hour. Am I still part of the 2% that can solve this problem?
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- #188
tattushenoi
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Reading so many replies, I feel the 2% part which is not part of the 'facts' or even does not form the question is affecting the question. If the assumption that one of them owns a fish cannot be true, then how does 'assuming Einstein cannot do wrong and 2% part has to be correct' hold good?
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ashishsinghal
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Is it actually by Einstein?
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davee123
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ashishsinghal said:
Extremely doubtful. The earliest sources of the puzzle are from Life International magazine in the 1960's, where no attribution was given to Einstein. The problem likely originated there, or from a few people passing it around, and was attributed to Einstein incorrectly later on.
DaveE