You Don't Have To Be Einstein

Newcastle Herald

Tuesday December 18, 2007

Editor: Chris Watson Designer: David Coleman Advertising: 49 795322 Puzzles: Reuben's Puzzles

Keep your brain working during the holiday

season with this book of brain teasers.

It's summertime and the living is easy, but Holidaze 2007

has now arrived to keep your mind ticking over during the

Christmas vacation.

Designed for young and old, Holidaze has more than 60

puzzles including crosswords, scatterwords, sudograms,

word games, mazes and spot the differences, plus more

than 30 fantastic Sudoko puzzles, the biggest craze in

brain teasers since Rubik's Cube burst on the scene in the

1980s.

The seemingly simple numbers game was invented by a

blind Swiss mathematician more than 200 years ago and

was reborn in Japan around 2004, before its popularity

took off around the world. The basic game requires people

to fill in a nine-by-nine square grid, broken into mini-grids,

with the numbers one to nine so that each line, column

and mini-grid contains one of each number

But before setting off to conquer Sudoko, here's a little

brain teaser to warm you up, its genesis generally attributed

to Einstein, although he may or may not have written it.

There are five houses in five different colours, and in each

house lives a person of a different nationality. The owners

each drink a different type of beverage, smoke a certain

brand of cigar and have a different pet. Using the clues

here, who owns the fish?

The Britain lives in a red house.

The Swede has dogs as pets.

The Dane drinks tea.

The green house is on the immediate left of the white

house.

The green house owner drinks coffee.

The person whose cigar is Pall Mall rears birds.

The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

The man living in the

house in the middle

drinks milk.

The Norwegian lives

in the first house.

The man who

smokes Blend lives

next door to the one

who keeps cats.

The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man

who smokes Dunhill.

The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer

The German smokes Prince.

The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks

water

And - this isn't one of the clues - the answer is at the

bottom of this story

Well, now you are warmed up and ready to go.

Keep Holidaze by your side during the holidays for when

the fish aren't biting, rainy days keep you at home, you?re

resting up between swims, away camping or just catching

some rays.

The solutions are at the back of the book, so all you have

to do is set down your drink, pick up your pen, wipe the

sand and suntan lotion from your fingers and set about

enjoying your Holidaze

Answer: The German owns the fish. The houses, left to

right, are: Norwegian, yellow, water, Dunhill, cats; Dane,

blue, tea, Blend, horses; British, red, milk, Pall Mall, birds;

German, green, coffee, Prince, fish; Swede, white, beer,

Blue Master, dogs.

Editor: Chris Watson Designer: David Coleman Advertising: 49 795322 Puzzles: Reuben's Puzzles

© 2007 Newcastle Herald

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