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[sarah123]

try Einstein's Riddle that 98% of the world population cant solve.

- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.

- In each house lives a person of different nationality

- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

Einstein's riddle is: Who owns the fish?

You've missed a whole load out! I solved that one once, but only thing is, there are only four pets mentioned, so you can say who owns the pet that isnt named, but there is nothing to say it must be a fish (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I'll try and find the rest of it...

EDIT: ok, so here's the rest:

HINTS

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 next to, and 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.

[Jungfrauenregalbass]

try Einstein's Riddle that 98% of the world population cant solve.

- In a street there are five houses, painted five different colors.

- In each house lives a person of different nationality

- These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

Einstein's riddle is: Who owns the fish?

You've missed a whole load out! I solved that one once, but only thing is, there are only four pets mentioned, so you can say who owns the pet that isnt named, but there is nothing to say it must be a fish (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I'll try and find the rest of it...

EDIT: ok, so here's the rest:

HINTS

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 next to, and 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.

I know nothing of this!
that must be why I cant get it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
was I right aboot the candle?

Boast of brown snufflers, tree in the wood,
High hardy life, plantand pleasure,
Earth-shoot, love letter, lady's delight
Gold-skinned treasure of the high courts
Ring-bound, the warrior's weapon and joy.

[lucky045]

No you weren't right about the candle! And I have no idea about yours!

[Jungfrauenregalbass]

No you weren't right about the candle! And I have no idea about yours!

which one of mine?
I have no idea what yours is then.

[Jungfrauenregalbass]

THE loftiest cedars I can eat,
Yet neither paunch nor mouth have I;
I storm whene’er you give me meat;
Whene’er you give me drink, I die.

Oh, I know this one! Is it fire?

Ok, you walk into a room with only one match. In the room there is a candle an oil lamp and a fireplace - which do you light first?

you light the match first.
that was ten very hard thinking minutes, Im happy now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
goodnight.

[Wobby]

Got the answer to the Einstein's Riddle one at last! I actually had the right answer to start with, but for some odd reason I marked it as wrong, so I started building the logic all over again, and happened to try the same combination again much later, and found it to be right... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)


Regarding lucky's one, I would say the fireplace: but that is only because I don't need to light it with a match! Hence, I would remove the guard from the fireplace, and proceed to light everything else if necessary. Then again, it surely would depend on what the consumer intends to optimise in the first place. Otherwise, it's probably Jungfrauenregalbass's answer of the match. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Not sure of your one Jungfrauenregalbass - I'll give it a bit of a think...



Here are 2 from an Italian film I happened to see recently:
1) Più è grande e meno si vede.
2) Se fai il mio nome non ci sono più, chi sono?


And here are the rough English equivalents:
1) The more you have of it, the less you see.
2) If you say my name, I'll no longer exist.


~Wobby~

[sarah123]

And here are the rough English equivalents:
1) The more you have of it, the less you see.
2) If you say my name, I'll no longer exist.

nothing?

[Scurra]

1) The more you have of it, the less you see.
2) If you say my name, I'll no longer exist.
[/font][/size]~Wobby~

The second one is silence - although I always had the riddle as "what do you break when you name it?"
As to the first - no idea! Darkness?

[superpyroman]

"I have a mouth but never speak
I have several holes yet do not leak
My several keys unlock no door
To give me to someone would make them poor

What am I?"

[Wobby]

1) The more you have of it, the less you see.
2) If you say my name, I'll no longer exist.

~Wobby~

The second one is silence - although I always had the riddle as "what do you break when you name it?"
As to the first - no idea! Darkness?

Yes, I think their both the correct answers... The answer to the Italian one in the film was l'oscurità, which can be translated as obscurity or darkness, and using the actual words and with a different interpretation of translation, obscurity would probably fit too (The bigger it is, the less one sees), but I decided to just find a similar riddle whose origin was actually English, whose answer was in fact Darkness. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Alternative answers such as Nothing, or eye defects, etc. would equally work too... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

"I have a mouth but never speak
I have several holes yet do not leak
My several keys unlock no door
To give me to someone would make them poor

What am I?"

A piano full of debt collectors (or bills)? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

~Wobby~

[maggiemay]

A man has hanged himself in a barn. The beam from which he is hanging is too far off the ground for him to have reached it unaided, yet he received no help, and the barn is otherwise completely empty except for a puddle of water.

How did the man manage to hang himself?
(sorry - macabre, I know)

Is the answer something to do with soaking the rope in the puddle of water, then the rope will shrink ad therefore shorten as it dries ?

[Allannah]

A man has hanged himself in a barn. The beam from which he is hanging is too far off the ground for him to have reached it unaided, yet he received no help, and the barn is otherwise completely empty except for a puddle of water.

How did the man manage to hang himself?
(sorry - macabre, I know)

Was the puddle of water originally a block of ice which the man stood on?

[superpyroman]

A man has hanged himself in a barn. The beam from which he is hanging is too far off the ground for him to have reached it unaided, yet he received no help, and the barn is otherwise completely empty except for a puddle of water.

How did the man manage to hang himself?
(sorry - macabre, I know)

He stood on a cow, which stopped to go to the toilet before leaving.

[nicki_flute]

A man has hanged himself in a barn. The beam from which he is hanging is too far off the ground for him to have reached it unaided, yet he received no help, and the barn is otherwise completely empty except for a puddle of water.

How did the man manage to hang himself?
(sorry - macabre, I know)

Was the puddle of water originally a block of ice which the man stood on?

That's the answer I know

[musical girl]

Another macabre one.



Mr. A. Body has been found slumped across his desk. He is dead. Beside his is a sealed envelope and a tape recorder.
Mr. Body's butler, upon entering the room and finding the body, presses the play button on the tape recorder, which then plays a suicide message.

The butler immediately calls the Police Murder Investigation Squad. Why?
And how did Mr A. Body die?

Hmmm, the butler callls the murder investigation squad because the tape has been rewound to the beginning which Mr A Body wouldn't be able to do if he was dead. Was the encelope seal poisonous, so he died after licking it?