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• elementary school fun
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  this was a great big version of those little charts we used to make in elementary school, and I loved it! I'll have to find more of these and do them more often!
  Took me half an hour. I feel smart! Though I agree, I'm sure WAY more than 2% of people could figure this out nowadays!

  Posted by bethilyssa on September 27, 2009 at 20:59:49 Pacific Time

• Got it too
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  Took two attempts (new sheet of paper) and about a half hour.
  
  The order (color) of the houses falls out right away and the rest is just grunt work. Still, a good puzzle (any puzzle I can solve is a good one).
  

  Posted by EeeernieM on July 02, 2009 at 11:30:45 Pacific Time

• AHA Puzzle!
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  Hope to see more of these, lots of fun. It also occurs to me I may need some more practise as this took more than an hour to complete with the help of my girlfriend. I am impressed at those who completed it so quickly.

  Posted by elektrix on May 11, 2009 at 13:02:18 Pacific Time

• order of the houses from left to right...
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  One thing the solution did not provide was the order of the houses from left to right.
  
  This is what I got (in order from left to right):
  Norwegian, Dane, Brit, German, Swede
  
  Is that what other people found?

  Posted by nireves on May 08, 2009 at 08:17:09 Pacific Time

• oops!
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  Ah, OK....
  
  I see that the solution lists the houses in order (top to bottom), with the first house listed being the left-most house and the last house listed being the right-most house.
  
  Sorry 'bout that....
  
  _

  Posted by nireves on May 08, 2009 at 08:23:03 Pacific Time

• Aha
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  Took me about thirty minutes...I haven't done any of these logic puzzles since elementary school. Quite fun.

  Posted by CaptainDDL on April 04, 2009 at 17:27:54 Pacific Time

• so fun!
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  My husband and I worked together on this. Maybe one in each issue from now on?

  Posted by mighty_amy on April 04, 2009 at 15:53:09 Pacific Time

• Einstein's Riddle
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  My 11 year old daughter and I, working together, took two evenings to solve this puzzle. I guess that puts us on the very low end of the top 2% or possibly the 2% doubles to 4% because of our collaboration pushing us out of the winners circle...
  Perhaps we'll try again separately next issue!

  Posted by MrJetson on April 01, 2009 at 20:19:32 Pacific Time

• Einstein's Riddle
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  Let's just hope she couldn't have solved it in one night working by herself :)

  Posted by MichaelPryor on April 02, 2009 at 08:30:06 Pacific Time

• Einstein's Riddle
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  Oh, she liked that!

  Posted by MrJetson on April 02, 2009 at 15:56:31 Pacific Time

• Einstein's Riddle
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  If the houses are arranged in a circle, with one house in the center, then there will appear to be a "leftmost house" (if you're standing far enough). Since there is more than one solution to this arrangement, I figured the houses must be in a straight line. I don't know why I have to make things more complicated than they should be.

  Posted by Optimistic2007 on March 29, 2009 at 22:18:59 Pacific Time

• Einstein's Riddle
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  I feel smarter than 98% of the world!!!!!

  Posted by DrFrankensteen on March 23, 2009 at 17:26:39 Pacific Time

• Einstein
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  I worked off and on while getting dinner ready, etc. After reading to my boys it took me about 15 mins. This is my 2nd 'Make' mag, I'm having fun!

  Posted by PG13 on March 07, 2009 at 20:28:04 Pacific Time

• Einstein's riddle has one weakness...
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  it should state that the houses aren't arranged in a circle. C'mon, you can figure out that space and time are curved but for for some reason a street can't be?

  Posted by jclagg on March 06, 2009 at 17:05:49 Pacific Time

• Einstein's riddle has one weakness...
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  Since one clue refers to "the leftmost house", it's clear they aren't in a circle. And since another clue says "looking from the front", it's implied that the houses all face in the same direction.

  Posted by CLandau on March 21, 2009 at 14:32:29 Pacific Time

• Einstein's Riddle
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  Did it in about an hour and used a chart with all the options and eliminated those that were false. Worked pretty well, but it was fun.

  Posted by Putter3 on March 04, 2009 at 08:21:37 Pacific Time

• w00t!
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  my first thought was to use a sudoku-type format...and it worked!

  Posted by praguemade on March 03, 2009 at 20:16:59 Pacific Time

• Einstein's Riddle
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  I remember doing these types of logic puzzles 30+ years ago. As much fun now as they were back then ~ Great Stuff! NJM

  Posted by nicholasmeeker on March 02, 2009 at 16:01:02 Pacific Time

• Einstein's Riddle
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  Glad you liked it! I should add more of these... this was the most feedback we've ever gotten on a puzzle.

  Posted by MichaelPryor on April 02, 2009 at 08:31:24 Pacific Time

• Fun stuff
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  It's like n-dimentional sudoku.

  Posted by loneconspirator on February 22, 2009 at 10:59:43 Pacific Time

• Fun stuff
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  only 2% of the population may have been able to solve this 75 years ago but I imagine the percentage is much higher in 2009.

  Posted by controlroom on February 28, 2009 at 07:32:51 Pacific Time