Can you solve “Einstein’s Riddle”? - Dan Van der Vieren

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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 a stolen exotic fish and a long list of suspects. Can you resist tackling a brain teaser written by one of the smartest people in history? Dan Van der Vieren shows how.
 

Problem solving using a process of elimination.

19 December 2015 Edit: 19 December 2015

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