Einstein

This game is inspired by Sherlock, which was in turn inspired by 'Einstein's puzzle'. Is it reported that Einstein said of the riddle, "Only 2 percent of the world's population can solve it". Which might be true only if they tried to do it the same way as Einstein normally solved logic riddles, completely in his mind without external notes. I certainly am not in the top 2% and I can solve the puzzles in this game in 42 seconds. It should also be noted that there is very little evidence that Einstein invented this riddle or made the 2% statement. It should also be noted that the puzzles in this game differ from the original riddle not just in symbols of number and quality of clues and the game automatically keeps notes for player .

This game sort of randomizes the clues and uses cards with letters, numbers, dice, roman numbers, shapes, mathematical operators, instead of the original objects. It is a 6x6x6 problem (6 columns, 6 types of cards, 6 of each type). They reside in columns instead of houses. There is a grid with all the possible answers filled in already. You can examine the clue and eliminate answers by left clicking them until there is only one left. Or just right click on the answer as a short cut (if you know it, or are feeling lucky). The right side of there screen has the "horizontal" clues and the bottom is the "vertical" clues.
A horizontal red double arrow between two pieces indicates that the are in directly adjacent columns (not in the same column).
3 horizontal red dots between two pieces indicates that the are not in the same column.
A horizontal blue double arrow across three pieces indicates they are all in directly adjacent columns but they may be in the order shown or the reverse of the order shown.
Vertically stacked pieces on the bottom indicate that they are both in the same column.

The cards are fully customizable which is great news of dyslexics. Personally I kept mixing up dice, numbers, and roman numbers when they had the same values so I colored them. I also mixed up the inverted triangle and inverted pentagon with their 'normal' equivalents so I changed them to a solid hexagram and solid circle. I changed the mathematical operations to logic symbols just because I dislike math.

One final note, it is possible that your will not be given enough clues to finish the puzzle logically. In which case you will just have to guess. Several times I've been down to a 50/50 decision for the last move.

(Zerothis) - # 2009-01-12 09:48:30

software: C++ programming language,

hardware: x86-64 CPU,

display: raster

clone of
Sherlock (MS-DOS)