- #181
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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Discussion Overview
The discussion revolves around an online IQ test purportedly associated with Einstein, focusing on its legitimacy and the experiences of participants attempting to solve it. The scope includes problem-solving strategies, personal experiences with the puzzle, and reflections on intelligence testing.
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Main Points Raised
- Some participants express curiosity about the legitimacy of the IQ test linked to Einstein.
- Several users share their experiences and time taken to solve the puzzle, with varying degrees of success and frustration.
- There are claims that the puzzle requires abstract thinking, while others suggest trial and error as a viable method.
- Participants discuss the potential cultural bias of the test, particularly regarding unfamiliar references to cigars and beverages.
- Some argue that the assertion that only 2% of people can solve the puzzle is likely exaggerated, suggesting that many can solve it with enough time.
- There are differing opinions on whether abstract shortcuts exist for solving such puzzles, with some asserting that they do not.
- Participants reflect on the value of intelligence tests and IQ, with some questioning their significance and relevance.
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The discussion features multiple competing views regarding the nature of the puzzle, the validity of the 2% claim, and the methods of solving it. No consensus is reached on these points.
Contextual Notes
Participants mention various methods and experiences without resolving the effectiveness of those methods. There are also references to personal circumstances affecting performance, such as fatigue and cultural background.
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Individuals interested in logic puzzles, intelligence testing, and problem-solving strategies may find this discussion relevant.
- #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.
Thoughts?
- #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?
- #185
misskas
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here you go :) enjoy!
- #186
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
- #187
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?
- #189
ashishsinghal
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Is it actually by Einstein?
- #190
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