So i was in training class this past week and they gave us a mind puzzle that almost gave me an anxiety attack. This is not my homework assignment either, lol...i already know the answer. The objective is to figure out who drinks the 'water' and who owns the 'zebra'. Thought that i'd share it with those that care for this kind of thing. Good luck!! 1.) There are five houses each of a different color and inhabited by men of different nationalities,with different pets, drinks, and cigarettes. 2.) The Englishmen lives in the red house. 3.) The Spaniard owns the dog. 4.) Coffee is drunk in the green house. 5.) The Ukranian drinks tea. 6.) The green house is immediately to the right (your right) of the ivory house. 7.) The Old Gold smoker owns snails. 8.) Kools are smoked in the yellow house. 9.) Milk is drunk in the middle house. 10.) The Norwegian lives in the first house on the left. 11.) The man who smokes Chesterfields lives in the house next to the man with the fox. 12.) Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where the horse is kept. 13.) The Lucky Strike smoker drinks orange juice. 14.) The Japanese man smokes Parliaments. 15.) The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. **So...with the info listed above, who drinks water, and who owns the zebra??** ***PM the answer to me so that others can rack their brain on it also. Thanks.
Oh I love these. Just set up a table next time you need to solve one of these josh. I have the zebra and one of you blonde hair blue eyed round eyes drinks the water.
to live on that street youd wanna drink more than water so no-one, and as far as owning a zebra... they are wild animals... no-one owns them
Answer is too vague...you lose.lol. And yes, you have to use a "table" to finger it out. Also, pm me the answer if you figure it out so that others can try to solve it.
I know a request for proposal that's lacking sufficient detail to make good assumptions about all the moving parts involved when I see one. I can smell them now days. It's a critical self-defense mechanism I have honed through years of direct contact with executives, sales/marketing departments and the occasional business analyst with a novel idea of what the "analyst" portion of their title entails... usually having nothing to do with actual analysis. No table necessary to solve that one. Jerk. You merely need critical thinking skills and enough juevos to call out the person asking the question. I would only ask a candidate this question as a test of how likely they are to make assumptions and BS their way through projects. Either that or see if they will provide me a solution that clearly calls out assumptions, and the ramifications if those assumptions prove false. Come to think of it, I should use this... Easy segue in to multidimensional arrays if they have the sack to ask for the missing info. Hmmmm...
Well it was in fact a "Job Foreman Preparedness Class"....so bs'ing our way through projects was part of the criteria. Lol. It was to determine whether or not we have the gumption to problem solve. I had never attempted to solve one quite like this. But for Sheen, this was like dropping a duece after a bottle of laxatives, or a Chipotle burrito challenge.
