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This riddle could make you crazy. Working it.
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Who owns the fish?
- 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.
Necessary clues:
1. The British man lives in a red house.
2. The Swedish man keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Danish man 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 center 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 Blends smoker lives next to the one who drinks water.
Some have claimed this to be the worlds hardest riddle. It isn't. It is a decent riddle, though, and a fun one for those who like riddles with systematic solutions. My own solution is below.
A chart seems like the most useful tool to help solve this riddle: Five columns for the five houses, and five rows for nationality, house color, type of drink, type of cigar, and finally, pets. Clue #8 states the man in the middle house drinks milk, so we can start by filling in that one of the 25 boxes created.
Then we deduce as much as possible from each clue as it becomes usable. The Norwegian living in the first house (# 9) could mean the first on the left or the right, since it isn't specified. I assume the left (first on chart) for now. Often, with riddles or puzzles, it is faster to make an assumption and if it doesn't work out go back and try the other way, rather than trying to hold open both possibilities while analyzing the other clues.
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4thekids wrote: Farmer wrote: Most words/sentences contain all or most of the vowels. There isn't a single "e" in the entire paragraph.
Yes Farmer and Thank You
"e"....... don't that mean my beers empty and it's time for another one?
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Farmer wrote: Most words/sentences contain all or most of the vowels. There isn't a single "e" in the entire paragraph.
Yes Farmer and Thank You
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Most words/sentences contain all or most of the vowels. There isn't a single "e" in the entire paragraph.
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This is a most unusual paragraph - and so is its companion paragraph that follows. This writing may annoy you until you find out why it is so unusual, for you won't find a solution instantly. But don't go into a tailspin about it, for it isn't that difficult. But you will admit that it is most unusual. This writing looks so ordinary that you might think that nothing is worng with it. And, in fact, nothing is wrong with it. But it is unusual, and you must ask why. If you study and think about it, you may find out why, but you must do it without any coaching of any kind. No doubt if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you...who knows? So start to study it now, and try your skill at finding out what is so unusual about this writing. If you can do it in half an hour, you may claim an approach to wisdom, but if you can't do it in half an hour...find our solution
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This is a most unusual paragraph - and so is its companion paragraph that follows. This writing may annoy you until you find out why it is so unusual, for you won't find a solution instantly. But don't go into a tailspin about it, for it isn't that difficult. But you will admit that it is most unusual. This writing looks so ordinary that you might think that nothing is worng with it. And, in fact, nothing is wrong with it. But it is unusual, and you must ask why. If you study and think about it, you may find out why, but you must do it without any coaching of any kind. No doubt if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you...who knows? So start to study it now, and try your skill at finding out what is so unusual about this writing. If you can do it in half an hour, you may claim an approach to wisdom, but if you can't do it in half an hour...find our solution
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Swimming in oil is his affinity
Each night another bed with his corporate host
Should you believe in the trinity
He might be the Holy Ghost
He comes after the father and the son
But isn’t very much around
Though his presence is felt even when he’s gone
He’s nowhere to be found
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It projects itself as having integrity
And following the rule of law
But Waco, Ruby Ridge, and the Muslim witch-hunts
Are what we all witnessed and saw
On 9/11 it was caught with its pants down
Because it was busy chasing
The innocents out of town
What is it?
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It projects itself as having integrity
And following the rule of law
But Waco, Ruby Ridge, and the Muslim witch-hunts
Are what we all witnessed and saw
On 9/11 it was caught with its pants down
Because it was busy chasing
The innocents out of town
What is it?
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4thekids wrote: He shamed himself not his religion
When we all saw it on television
His twisted logic is surely at fault
And so his madness must be brought to a halt
All true Muslims must reject his call
It is not to true progress but to a deep fall
Who is he?
obama?
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He shamed himself not his religion
When we all saw it on television
His twisted logic is surely at fault
And so his madness must be brought to a halt
All true Muslims must reject his call
It is not to true progress but to a deep fall
Who is he?
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He shamed himself not his religion
When we all saw it on television
His twisted logic is surely at fault
And so his madness must be brought to a halt
All true Muslims must reject his call
It is not to true progress but to a deep fall
Who is he?
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4thekids wrote: Resist my son non-violently resist
Speak truth to power and always insist
Occupation, tyranny, oppression won’t exist
When we all rise up and heroically persist
To face the dagger with the fist
Who is he?
The answer I was looking for is: Mahatma Gandhi
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Resist my son non-violently resist
Speak truth to power and always insist
Occupation, tyranny, oppression won’t exist
When we all rise up and heroically persist
To face the dagger with the fist
Who is he?
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Resist my son non-violently resist
Speak truth to power and always insist
Occupation, tyranny, oppression won’t exist
When we all rise up and heroically persist
To face the dagger with the fist
Who is he?
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His name evokes anger of all degrees
Though all too often it’s given a cold shoulder
Known all over the world as the four B’s:
Bloodsucker, bulldozer, bully, and butcher
Beckoned by a burning bush as a “a man of peace and goodwill”
But Jenin, Qibya, Sabra and Shatila, remain his mortal kill
Who is he?
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resisto wrote: 4thekids wrote: His name evokes anger of all degrees
Though all too often it’s given a cold shoulder
Known all over the world as the four B’s:
Bloodsucker, bulldozer, bully, and butcher
Beckoned by a burning bush as a “a man of peace and goodwill”
But Jenin, Qibya, Sabra and Shatila, remain his mortal kill
Who is he?
Netanyahu?
No sorry resisto try again
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4thekids wrote: His name evokes anger of all degrees
Though all too often it’s given a cold shoulder
Known all over the world as the four B’s:
Bloodsucker, bulldozer, bully, and butcher
Beckoned by a burning bush as a “a man of peace and goodwill”
But Jenin, Qibya, Sabra and Shatila, remain his mortal kill
Who is he?
Netanyahu?
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His name evokes anger of all degrees
Though all too often it’s given a cold shoulder
Known all over the world as the four B’s:
Bloodsucker, bulldozer, bully, and butcher
Beckoned by a burning bush as a “a man of peace and goodwill”
But Jenin, Qibya, Sabra and Shatila, remain his mortal kill
Who is he?
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His name evokes anger of all degrees
Though all too often it’s given a cold shoulder
Known all over the world as the four B’s:
Bloodsucker, bulldozer, bully, and butcher
Beckoned by a burning bush as a “a man of peace and goodwill”
But Jenin, Qibya, Sabra and Shatila, remain his mortal kill
Who is he?
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Arrogance is his middle name
Mocking everyone with no shame
When he’s not in bed with neo-cons
He’s on TV displaying his guns
Emerges from the war of fog
To reassure of steady slog
He loves new Europe and hates the old
Tragedy is, the true patriots are being sold
Who is he?
Answer: Donald Rumsfeld
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Yassar Arafat? but isn't he dead?
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Mhmoud Ahmadinejad?
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Arrogance is his middle name
Mocking everyone with no shame
When he’s not in bed with neo-cons
He’s on TV displaying his guns
Emerges from the war of fog
To reassure of steady slog
He loves new Europe and hates the old
Tragedy is, the true patriots are being sold
Who is he?
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Admired around the world
For fighting oppression without a sword
Courageously spoke the truth
A role model to all the youth
His people were liberated
When apartheid was obliterated
Who is he?
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He could have been among the greats
But was easily led toward the bait
He loved them in all sizes and shapes
But shamed his country with his lust for babes
Perhaps the smartest prez to have ever taken a quiz
But the only one who did not know
What is, is
Who is he?
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