> On Feb 23, 11:27 am, "Daniel T." earthlink.net> wrote:

>> "George Dance" wrote:

>>>> I knew I had an "unfair advantage" over most,
>>>> because I've been doing logic puzzles of all flavors since I was
>>>> twelve. It took me longer to draw two sets of grids on graph paper
>>>> than to solve the puzzle. And as you may remember, when you've filled
>>>> in the grid and check your results with the clues; if all the clues
>>>> arelogicallytrue, you did it. You only need an "answer sheet" if you
>>>> couldn't do it. There is the unique solution and as I mentioned
>>>> previously the last piece of data to fill in was the fish (which was
>>>> never mentioned in any of the clues).

>>

>>> I'm going to dispute that, and insist that the puzzle has no logical
>>> solution. Given that fish were never mentioned, in the opening
>>> statement of the problem or in the clues, there is no way to logically
>>> conclude that anyone owns any fish.

>>
>> You are absolutely correct. I know when I was trying to solve the
>> puzzle, I noticed that fish was never mentioned in any of the clues and
>> felt rather uncomfortable making the assumption that the unmentioned pet
>> must be a fish. I wonder if Einstein worded the question exactly as the
>> website did or if maybe he added verbiage like you suggest...

>
>
>
> If Einstein had written the riddle, I suspect that he'd have added
> that phrase. Though I
> suspect that the whole attribution to Einstein is an urban legend. I
> haven't been able to conclude that for sure (though I did find one
> claim, on Usenet, that not all the cigar brands listed were sold in
> the 19th century, which if true would put paid to the claim that the
> riddle was written then).
>
>
> One riddle which I did find while I was searching this, and which I'd
> like to share with the whole group, is this cute one:
>
>
> "Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them.
> There
> are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?
> The
> word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened
> carefully, I have already told you what it is."
>
>
> Hint: It's a trick question.
>