Albert Einstein's brain Teaser

Grand Illusions ^

[Doctor Stochastic]

The dollar (okay, probably three dollars by now) crossword books also have many of these puzzles in them. They have been around for a long time.

[byteback]

Used to do these ad a kid. It's all about making a grid and using process of elimination. Made one bad assumption but it was an easy recovery. A box with 5 negatives means OOps!

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Got it in 20 minutes, no Excel...tee hee.

[Arkie2]

I live in the white house, drink bourbon, smoke Cohibas and have a trained attack dog. None of the other houses matter. Any questions?

[Mulder]

Got it.

[Mr. Mojo]

Got it in 30 min, but was (pleasantly) distracted the Red Sox losing to the Phillies on a 13th inning homer, so I probably could've done it in 20 min.

[Hardcorps]

How do you solve this one? A man and his wife, together their ages are 98..he is twice the age that she was when he was the age she is today. How old is he and how old is his wife? This problem drove me crazy in a high school logic class many years ago. You are supposed to solve it using reason and logic only. Yep I do know the answer.

[Mr. Mojo]

He [Einstein] said that 98% of the people in the world cannot solve the quiz.

I wonder if a time limit was a consideration.

[supercat]

How do you solve this one?

Start by factoring 98. >:*3

[x1stcav]

I got the essential answer, the German, correct but not in the same house as you did. It is possible to work this as a mirror image and come up with the same correct answer.

[Mr. Mojo]

I live in the white house, drink bourbon, smoke Cohibas and have a trained attack dog.

Quiz: I used to live in The White House, drink Scotch, have commie cigars that I use for various purposes, and used to own a dog as a prop (at the insistence of Dick Morris).

Who am I?

[Senator Pardek]

Any real American knows that the distance from the rubber to home plate is 60.5 feet.

How far is the rubber from second base to the nearest inch (assume they are points on a plane)?

[Arkie2]

Sorry, I can't remember that Bubba's name. I neglected to mention my Cohibas aren't from Cuba. Are you listening Mr Customs Man?

[AntiGuv]

Not in my estimation. The German has to be in the fourth house which is Green. The easiest way to solve the problem is to put the color order in place first (that's simple) then place the two guys that fall into place immediately based on that (the Norwegian, which is given, and the Briton in center). Then, you know the Swede with the dogs has to be in one of the last two houses. So, since the Dane has to be in either the second or the fifth house, just put him in one and see how it all works out. If you've picked the wrong one, put the Dane in the other (the 2nd) and it all falls into place. Have fun!

[watchin]

Me too, and I got your answer. The 2% statistic is not a measure of intelligence, though. It's only a measure of nerdiness.

[watchin]

He's 56 ... she's 42

[VRWC For Truth]

It gave me a headache but I solved it. 10 minutes and a piece of paper. You can get 40% of it by the direct clues. Then it's down to 3 guesses as to where one of the nationalities goes. My first guess didn't pan out with the remaining clues. The second guess worked like a champ. :)

[grapeape]

Exactly, there had to have been more of a consideration of time because it just wasn't hard enough. I have a book on false logic that is really hard. I can't even get halfway through the darn thing.

[watchin]

You start with visualizing something like this:

Her ............Her/Him ........... Him

Since his age "now" is double that of hers "then", and the difference between "then" and "now" is the same as the diffence in their ages ...

He is twice as old as "double the difference in their ages", or four times as old as "the difference in their ages."

The difference in their ages must be an even number, in order for the sum of their ages to add up to the even number 98.

[Yeti]

This is what I got:

House	1	2	3	4	5
Color	Yellow	Blue	Red	Green	White
Nationality	Norwegian	Dane	Briton	German	Swede
Pet	Cats	Horses	Birds	Fish	Dogs
Drink	Water	Tea	Milk	Coffee	Beer
Smoke	Dunhill	Blend	Pall Mall	Prince	Blue Master