Can you solve Einstein's Riddle

你能解開(kāi)愛(ài)因斯坦之謎嗎？

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Before he turned physics upside down, a young Albert Einstein supposedly showed off his genius by devising a complex riddle involving this list of clues.?

Can you resist tackling a brain teaser written by one of the smartest people in history??

Let’s give it a shot.

在他顛覆物理學(xué)之前，年輕的阿爾伯特·愛(ài)因斯坦設(shè)計(jì)了一個(gè)帶一系列線(xiàn)索的復(fù)雜的謎題來(lái)展示他的天分。

你能抗拒去解一個(gè)歷史上最聰明的人之一寫(xiě)的謎團(tuán)嗎？

讓我們?cè)囈辉嚒?/p>

The world’s rarest fish has been stolen from the city aquarium.?

The police have followed the scent to a street with five identical looking houses.?

But they can’t search all the houses at once and if they pick the wrong one, the thief will know they’re on his trail.

It’s up to you, the city’s best detective to solve the case.?

世界上最罕見(jiàn)的魚(yú)從城市水族館被盜了。

警察追蹤線(xiàn)索，查到有五座一模一樣的房子的街上。

但是他們不能同時(shí)搜查所有的房子，他們一旦選錯(cuò)房子，便會(huì)打草驚蛇。

就看你，城市里最棒的偵查員來(lái)破案。

When you arrive on the scene, the police tell you what they know.?

One: each house’s owner is of a different nationality, drinks a different beverage, and smokes a different type of cigar.

Two: each house’s interior walls are painted a different color.

Three: each house contains a different animal, one of which is the fish.

當(dāng)你來(lái)到現(xiàn)場(chǎng)時(shí)，警察告訴你他們了解的情況。

第一：每棟房子的主人都來(lái)自不同國(guó)籍，喝不同的飲料，抽不同的雪茄。

第二：每棟房子的室內(nèi)墻都刷有不同顏色的涂料、

第三：每棟房子里都有不同的動(dòng)物，其中有一只就是被偷的魚(yú)。

After a few hours of expert sleuthing, you gather some clues.?

It may look like a lot of information, but there’s a clear logical path to the solution.?

Solving the puzzle will be a lot like Sudoku, so you may find it helpful to organize your information in a grid, like this.

(Pause the video on the following screen to examine your clues and solve the riddle.)

經(jīng)過(guò)幾個(gè)小時(shí)的仔細(xì)偵查，你搜集到了一些線(xiàn)索。

看似有很多信息，但有一條清晰合理的破案途徑。

解開(kāi)謎團(tuán)就像做數(shù)獨(dú)一樣，所以，把線(xiàn)索做成一張表格會(huì)有助于破案

（請(qǐng)?jiān)谙旅嬉粡埉?huà)面暫停視頻，閱讀線(xiàn)索，解開(kāi)謎團(tuán)）

Answer in:3 2 1

To start, you fill in the information from clues eight and nine.?

Immediately, you also realize that since the Norwegian is at the end of the street, there’s only one house next to him, which must be the one with the blue walls in clue fourteen.?

Clue five says the green-walled house’s owner drinks coffee.?

It can’t be the center house since you already know its owner drinks milk, but it also can’t be the second house, which you know has blue walls.?

And since clue four says the green-walled house must be directly to the left of the white-walled one, it?can’t be the first or fifth house either.?

The only place left for the green-walled house with the coffee drinker is the fourth spot, meaning the white-walled house is the fifth.

答案揭曉:3 2 1

要開(kāi)始，首先從第八和第九條線(xiàn)索開(kāi)始。

你立即就能發(fā)現(xiàn)挪威人住在馬路的第一棟房子里，在他旁邊的只有一棟房子，通過(guò)第十四條線(xiàn)索推斷，第二棟肯定有藍(lán)色墻。

第五條線(xiàn)索說(shuō)綠墻房子的主人和咖啡。

這不可能是中間的那棟房子，因?yàn)槟阋呀?jīng)知道它的主人喝牛奶，但是也不可能是第二棟房子，因?yàn)槟阋呀?jīng)知道是藍(lán)色的墻。

而且第四條線(xiàn)索說(shuō)：綠墻房子在白墻房子的左邊，所以不可能是第一棟或第五棟房子。

那綠墻房子里喝咖啡的主人唯一可能在的地方就是第四棟房子了，也就意味著第五棟房子是白墻。

Clue one gives you a nationality and a color.?

Since the only column missing both these values is the center one, this must be the Brit’s red-walled home.?

Now that the only unassigned wall color is yellow, this must be applied to the first house, where clue seven says the Dunhill smoker lives.?

And clue eleven tells you that the owner of the horse is next door, which can only be the second house.?

第一條線(xiàn)索給了國(guó)籍和墻的顏色。

只有一欄既沒(méi)有已知顏色也沒(méi)有國(guó)籍，那這個(gè)肯定是英國(guó)人的紅墻房子了。

現(xiàn)在只有一個(gè)顏色還沒(méi)有看到：黃色，那就肯定是第一棟房子了，線(xiàn)索七說(shuō)抽登喜路雪茄的人就住在這里。

第十一條線(xiàn)索告訴你養(yǎng)馬的人就住在隔壁，那就只有可能是第二棟房子了。

The next step is to figure out what the Norwegian in the first house drinks.?

It can’t be tea, clue three tells you that’s the Dane.?

As per clue twelve, it can’t be root beer since that person smokes Bluemaster, and since you already assigned milk and coffee, it must be water.?

From clue fifteen, you know that the Norwegian’s neighbor, who can only be in the second house, smokes Blends.?

Now that the only spot in the grid without a cigar and a drink is in the fifth column that must be the home of the person in clue twelve.?

And since this leaves only the second house without a drink, the tea-drinking Dane must live there.?

接下來(lái)一步就是找到第一棟房子里的挪威人喝什么。

不可能是茶，因?yàn)榫€(xiàn)索三說(shuō)丹麥人喝茶。

根據(jù)線(xiàn)索十二，也不可能是樹(shù)根啤酒，因?yàn)槟莻€(gè)人抽Bluemaster，而且你已經(jīng)分配好牛奶和咖啡了，那就肯定是水。

根據(jù)線(xiàn)索十五，你知道挪威人的鄰居，只有可能是第二棟房子，抽Blends雪茄。

現(xiàn)在只剩下一棟房子的主人還不知道喝什么飲料，抽什么雪茄，也就是第五棟房子，這就肯定是線(xiàn)索十二里的人的家了。

只有第二棟房子的主人還不知道喝什么飲料，喝茶的丹麥人肯定住在這兒。

The?fourth house is now the only one missing a nationality and a cigar brand, so the Prince-smoking German from clue thirteen must live there.?

Through elimination, you can conclude that the Brit smokes Pall Mall and the Swede lives in the fifth house, while clue six and clue two tell you that these two have a bird and a dog, respectively.?

Clue ten tells you that the cat owner lives next to the Blend-smoking Dane, putting him in the first house.

第四棟房子是唯一一棟不知道國(guó)籍和雪茄牌子的房子了，所以，根據(jù)線(xiàn)索十三，抽Prince雪茄的德國(guó)人肯定住在這里。

通過(guò)排除法，你可以總結(jié)英國(guó)人抽Pall Mall并且瑞典人住在第五棟房子里，線(xiàn)索二和六告訴你這兩個(gè)人分別養(yǎng)鳥(niǎo)和狗。

線(xiàn)索十告訴你養(yǎng)貓的人是抽Blend的丹麥人的鄰居，也就是第一棟房子里。

Now with only one spot left on the grid, you know that the German in the green-walled house must be the culprit.

You and the police burst into the house, catching the thief fish-handed.?

While that explanation was straightforward, solving puzzled like this often involves false starts and dead ends.?

Part of the trick is to use the process of elimination and lots of trial and error to hone in on the right pieces, and the more logical puzzles you solve, the better your intuition will be for when and where there’s enough information to make your deductions.

現(xiàn)在表格里只有一個(gè)空白位置，你就能知道綠墻房子里的德國(guó)人是罪魁禍?zhǔn)住?/p>

你和警察沖進(jìn)屋內(nèi)，抓住盜魚(yú)的小偷。

雖然這個(gè)解釋簡(jiǎn)單明了，解開(kāi)這樣的謎題通常會(huì)開(kāi)頭不妙或者碰上死路。

常用的技巧就是排除法和多次嘗試去找到正確的方向，解開(kāi)的謎題越多，你的直覺(jué)就會(huì)更加敏銳，你就知道如何使用已知信息推斷。

And did young Einstein really write this puzzle??

Probably not.?

There’s no evidence he did, and some of the brands mentioned are too mentioned.?

But the logic here is not so different from what you’d use to solve equations with multiple variables, even those describing the nature of the universe.

年輕的愛(ài)因斯坦真的自己寫(xiě)下這個(gè)謎題嗎？

應(yīng)該不是。

沒(méi)有證據(jù)指明是他寫(xiě)的，而且有些雪茄牌子太新了。

和你解多元方程時(shí)的邏輯沒(méi)有什么不同，甚至和描述宇宙中的自然現(xiàn)象是一樣的。