This is a pretty good riddle. Supposedly Einstein wrote this riddle early in the 19th century and claimed that 98% of the world’s population would not be able to solve it. I, of course, did solve it and therefore I am a genius. Unfortunately, there is no official documentation confirming that he wrote this riddle or made any such claim. But I’m still a genius.

Give it a try. Remember, there are no tricks to this riddle, just pure logic. Good luck.

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke
different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

CLUES:

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

Did you get it? Don’t give up, but when you think you’ve figured it out you can check your answer here.

Ironically, it seems I’ve misspelled the word “genius”. Thank god for spell check.