EINSTEIN’S PUZZLE. Below is a quiz written by Einstein. He said 98 percent of the people in the world cant’ solve the quiz. Are you among the other two percent?

Facts: 1) There are five houses in five different colors. 2) In each house lives a person of different nationality. 3) No two owners play the same game, smoke the same cigar, or drink the same beverage.

Further details: 1) The Brit lives in a red house. 2) The Swede plays Scrabble. 3) The Dane drinks tea. 4) The green house is immediately left of the White house. 5) The owner of the green house drinks coffee. 6) The person who smokes Pall Mall plays dominoes. 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 to the left. 10) The man who smokes Blend lives next to the man that plays Checkers. 11) The man who plays Bridge lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. 12) The owner 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 Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

NOW WHO PLAYS CHESS? Write and prove your answer

I play chess. Look at my profile for proof.

it's me i'm the chess player in the OP

Answer:

German

Too lazy to prove, but I did do it (can prove if really necessary)...

Guess I'm part of the 2% :)

None of them play chess. I'm in the 2%er group also. Let's get together and rave unknown user.

by the way the thing where it says bla bla if you can solve this crap you are a genius because einstein said so (read: "if you spend a couple of minutes on this puzzle it may help you validate your arrogance/poor social skills & maybe even neckbeard" (i'm kidding about the neckbeard. nothing can validate a neckbeard. (shave your god damn neckbeards)))) was probably just made up by some random guy to generate interest in the puzzle. seems to have been successful as i have been seeing variants of this problem pop up for years now! it's crazy.

anyway. there are 15 conditions, 16 if you count the problem question (someone plays chess). you find the combination that satisfies all conditions. quickest & easiest way is just to write a program that finds the combination for you.

attempting to solve it by hand is kind of tedious & boring.

The german plays chess in his green house while drinking coffee and smoking prince!

My notes go like this:

Yellow        Blue        Red          Green           White

Norweg.      Dane      Brit          German          Swede

Water         Tea        Milk           Coffee          Beer

Dunhill        Blend     Pall Mall     Prince            B. Master

Checkers    Bridge    Dominoes       ?                Scrabble

I pretty much just used elimination, it was kinda like playing sudoku but with a word problem.

...yet you're still wrong (according to the puzzle).   :)

really?!?!?!?!?! i was so proud of myself! what's wrong about it?

lol  can't spoil it.  i'll let the OP decide when to spill the beans.

you did well to get to the German...you're in the upper part of the 98%.  :)

shot in the dark, but they all play chess. each is a game of strategy, in a manner of speaking:

checkers- this equals the process of elimination. it plays into chess as to the what move to make at the right time with the least amount of consequence.

Bridge: playing the right card at the right time.

Dominoes: it's a blocking game. the best offense is a good defence.

Scrabble: it is based around playing off your opponent's moves. Adaptation, in chess, stratgey lacking stratgey. to always move the unexpected is to confuse the opponent into a trap.

of course, this is all based around pure theory. I could be completely off, but whatever. it makes sense to me.

Quote: EINSTEIN’S PUZZLE. Below is a quiz written by Einstein. He said 98 percent of the people in the world cant’ solve the quiz. Are you among the other two percent?

Facts: 1) There are five houses in five different colors. 2) In each house lives a person of different nationality. 3) No two owners play the same game, smoke the same cigar, or drink the same beverage.

Further details: 1) The Brit lives in a red house. 2) The Swede plays Scrabble. 3) The Dane drinks tea. 4) The green house is immediately left of the White house. 5) The owner of the green house drinks coffee. 6) The person who smokes Pall Mall plays dominoes. 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 to the left. 10) The man who smokes Blend lives next to the man that plays Checkers. 11) The man who plays Bridge lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. 12) The owner 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 Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

Where does it mention chess?

Therefore, not enough information :P

Well, for all we know, some guy in Timbuktu might be playing chess, while these guys aren't learned in chess at all.

I would just knock on the door and ask who wants to play chess!

Hah! This est obvious!

Pretty much everyone on chess.com plays chess! Proof: they're on CHESS.com... duuh!

edit: Wait! The answer should probably be "The russians!"! They feed their kids with chess-crackers! That has to be it! There's only one in my school that can beat me in chess, and she's russian! So, yeah... The russians definitely play chess, no doubt!

Whats wrong with marilizeit's answer? I got the same thing.

it's deffinitly the german. And it doesnt need to mention chess because it mentions all the other games so you simply deduce that the person without a mentioned game plays chess.

cryptic hint.

if you work through the facts, you will arrive at the German.

if you don't......

This seems like a trick of language (like the CRT).  I think I know the answer, but I'm not totally sure it works, so maybe I'm wrong... I shall wait, I guess.

My original solution was the same as that of the other solvers, with the german playing chess... However, if it's semantic nitpicking that's called for:

Who plays chess? I do! Lots of folks play chess I can't name them all. Chessplayers play chess. Are we supposed to assume that the question "who plays chess?" is somehow attached to the problem of the people in the houses? To be strictly logical we'd need a rule stating that, or a better worded question such as: from the clues given above, which of the five must play chess? Without such connective tissue the puzzle isn't answerable.

But even with the reworded question one could say  the correct answer is "none" must play chess...

-- the german might, or might not... there are other games he might play we can't be sure -- we can be sure that none of the other 4 play chess. The phrasing "now who plays chess" implies that this is the final clue -- giving us the last element of the puzzle,the fifth game, chess... but I suppose that implication is a kind of assumption that we shouldn't make (for this puzzle)...

If that sort of semantic nitpicking is the answer, this an unsatisfactory puzzle.