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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 17
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 17

by Mark Frauenfelder
February 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
8h 28m
English
Make: Community
Content preview from Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 17

AHA! Puzzle This

By Michael H. Pryor

MAKE’s favorite puzzles. (When you’re ready to check your answers, visit makezine.com/17/aha.)

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Illustration by Roy Doty

“Einstein’s Riddle”

It’s rumored that Albert Einstein made up this logic puzzle and that he claimed that 98% of the population could not solve it. Are you among the 2%?

There are 5 houses, each of a different color. Each of their owners has a unique heritage, drinks a certain type of beverage, smokes a certain brand of cigarette, and keeps a certain variety of pet. None of the owners have the same variety of pet, smoke the same brand of cigarette, or drink the same beverage.

• The Brit lives ...

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