Albert Einstein's riddle: only 2% of the population will be able to solve it, will you be one of them?

When it comes to solving riddles, visual puzzles, or mental challenges, most people feel drawn to the feat of trying to complete them successfully. Since childhood, we have faced the difficult task of finding Wally in the crowd through different eras of humanity and situations.

Today we bring to our blog a new mathematical problem that uses human logic to reach its conclusion; but of course, this does not necessarily mean that everyone will be able to solve it without some external help. It is known as the “Einstein riddle.” It is said that only 2% of the population can solve it. Do you want to check if you belong to that 2% or the other 98%?

Here we go with the statement! “On a street, there are five houses, each a different color. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. Each owner drinks only one type of beverage, smokes only one brand of cigarettes, and has a pet different from their neighbors. Based on the 15 clues presented below, the question to answer is: Who owns the fish?"And these are the 15 clues offered to help find the solution, take your time, it will take a while.

1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede has a dog as a pet.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
5. The German smokes Prince.
6. The green house is immediately to the left of the white one.
7. The owner of the green house drinks coffee.
8. The owner who smokes Pall Mall raises birds.
9. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
10. The man who lives in the middle house drinks milk.
11. The neighbor who smokes Blends lives next to the one who has a cat.
12. The man who has a horse lives next to the one who smokes Dunhill.
13. The owner who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
14. The neighbor who smokes Blends lives next to the one who drinks water.
15. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

The solution

The Spanish mathematician Francisco Lorenzo published on his channel a deductive formula to solve this puzzle that requires pencil and paper.

If you have followed the steps one by one, you too will have come to the conclusion that the answer is that the owner of the fish is the German neighbor.