

I solved it, but it did take me a couple attempts and a bit of scribbling on paper.ĪDVERTISEMENT How I Approached the Problem

There are 5 houses painted five different colors. You don't need any extra hints, and there aren't any assumptions I expect you to know. Just to be absolutely clear, all the clues are enough for you to solve it. I'm now going to give you a list of clues, and then you will need to answer a question at the end of the clues.
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What's important is that, with a basic understanding of truth tables (and a bit of patience), you can solve it, too.ĪDVERTISEMENT How to Solve Einstein's Riddle It's highly unlikely that it was written by Einstein, but that doesn't really matter. Others say it was used by Einstein to only select the smartest PhD students he would supervise.īut there are some claims online that it actually was invented by the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol. It's famously known as the Einstein Riddle because it was supposedly created by Einstein as a young man for fun. What is the Einstein Riddle?Įven the origin of it the riddle is a little unclear. The riddle itself is used as a benchmark in the evaluation of constraint satisfaction problems for computer algorithms. But they are all the exact same core problem. There are a few different incarnations of it – some have slightly different wording, different names, or change the items in the riddle slightly. I recently learned about a logic puzzle online that apparently only 2% of people can solve.
