There is a row of five different color houses. Each house is occupied by a man of different nationality. Each man has a different pet, prefers a different drink, and smokes different brand of cigarettes.

1. The Brit lives in the Red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to the White house, on the left.
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.

Which of the five house owners keeps fish as a pet?
This one's for the prodigy Greg

Originally Posted by huzaifa47

There is a row of five different color houses. Each house is occupied by a man of different nationality. Each man has a different pet, prefers a different drink, and smokes different brand of cigarettes.

1. The Brit lives in the Red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to the White house, on the left.
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.

This one's for the prodigy Greg

Already solved it a couple pages back

The Sage's Hat

The three wisest sages in the land were brought before the king to see which of them were worthy to become the king's advisor. After passing many tests of cunning and invention, they were pitted against each other in a final battle of the wits.

Led blind-folded into a small room, the sages were seated around a small wooden table as the king described the test for them.

"Upon each of your heads I have placed a hat. Now you are either wearing a blue hat or a white hat. All I will tell you is this- at least one of you is wearing a blue hat. There may be only one blue hat and two white hats, there may be two blue hats and one white hat, or there may be three blue hats. But you may be certain that there are not three white hats."

"I will shortly remove your blind folds, and the test will begin. The first to correctly announce the colour of his hat shall be my advisor. Be warned however, he who guesses wrongly shall be beheaded. If not one of you answers within the hour, you will be sent home and I will seek elsewhere for wisdom."

With that, the king uncovered the sages' eyes and sat in the corner and waited. One sage looked around and saw that his competitors each were wearing blue hats. From the look in their eyes he could see their thoughts were the same as his, "What is the colour of my hat?"

For what seemed like hours no one spoke. Finally he stood up and said, "The colour of the hat I am wearing is . . ."

What is the colour of his hat?

White? Right right? >.>

Joseph, where the heck do you get these riddles from? They're impossible to solve!

It's blue.

Originally Posted by feonateresa

White? Right right? >.>

No.

Joe, please say it ain't so!

Edit: Damnit haha.

Oh, "from the look in their eyes, he could see their thoughts were the same as his"

... clever.

Originally Posted by PTGregD

It's blue.

Correct! Nice job Greg!

Originally Posted by PTGregD

It's blue.

Why do you say that?

And when I hit "reply" this smiley just appeared out of nowhere.

Originally Posted by Joseph

Correct! Nice job Greg!

Greg got it again? LOL

Care to explain how you got Blue?

Originally Posted by Jake

Greg got it again? LOL

Care to explain how you got Blue?

He's a Dark Wizard. Notice the hat in his picture?
It's ridiculous how he cropped up the exact time his name was mentioned in this thread.

Edit; Back to the 8 couples now...

Originally Posted by Jake

Greg got it again? LOL

Care to explain how you got Blue?

Sure; This is similar to the other hat riddle I posted a few pages earlier.

Basically, in general, there are only a few different situations that can occur in terms of # of white and # of blue hats. But since we already know that the other two sages have blue hats, I'll skip the pointless ones.

So here we go:

If you were wearing a white hat, the other two sages would both see 1 blue and 1 white hat. This doesn't mean that they would be stumped though. Remember that you can't have three white hats. That means that if you were wearing a white hat, the other wizards would both realize that since they are keeping silent, that there must be 1 blue and 1 white hate for each of them to see. BECAUSE; if there were two white hats in vision of one of them, he would know he is wearing a blue hat and win. So even with one white and one blue hat; their silence is a dead give away that they are both wearing blue. That means that we (The lonely sage who see two blue hats) wouldn't be able to win this game.

However, since no one is saying anything at all, the only conclusion to draw is that all three of the sages are wearing a blue hat. Because if every sage sees two blue hats, there is no give away to what you're wearing. Except of course if the silence lasts a very long time, which it obviously did, meaning we're wearing a blue hat.


That was way longer that I planned. Sorry, I blame 2:00 AM syndrome.

Originally Posted by goodnews.inc

He's a Dark Wizard. Notice the hat in his picture?
It's ridiculous how he cropped up the exact time his name was mentioned in this thread.

Edit; Back to the 8 couples now...

I can post the answer if you'd like. The 'Couples' riddle was probably the hardest one I posted.

soo umm, it wasn't a riddle rather a trick comprehension question? :S

Right?

In other words if there were two whites the person obviously knew that he is blue, if there was one white one blue then the person still doesn't know whether he is blue or not, however if he was white then someone else would have called blue.