DO NOT READ THE COMMENTS IF YOU WANT TO TRY THIS PUZZLE!

[dannymcnaney]

The Einstein Puzzle

Supposedly, Albert Einstein wrote this riddle, and said 98% of the world could not solve it.

There are 5 houses in 5 different colors.  In each house lives a man with a different nationality.  The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.  No owners have the same pet

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[bankeitho]

top 2 percent baby!

here. i spent the past fifteen minutes scribbling away figuring this out, but i've got it.

-the greenhoused german who drinks coffee and smokes prince owns the fish.

and because i don't want to feel like i wasted my time:
-the norwegian in a yellow home drinks water and smokes dunhills while playing with his cat.
-the tea-drinking dane puts his blends out on his horse's face after he rides it back to his blue home.
-the brit chugs milk while staring at his bird in his red house...and he smokes pall malls.
-the swede and his dog drink beer, smoke bluemasters, and spoon together in his white motherfucking house!

Re: spoiler alert

[futbol]

Dammit.

That whole time that I spent trying to figure out how to add the damn spoiler tags and you got in before me.

Re: spoiler alert

[dannymcnaney]

congratulations sir.

[futbol]

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecesor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out the central inferences and presents one's audience with a startling point and conclusion, one can produce a startling... effect.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventures of the Dancing Men

(highlight to reveal answer)
The German.

[dannymcnaney]

well done sir, and i applaud your courtesy.