It has been a big month for editing the next book in CRONUS: Team Zeus. Editing is a slow process, and with so many threads running through the series, I absolutely must get everything lined up perfectly. Writing a military thriller series with characters who feel real, who read like they’re living complete lives off the page, comes with its challenges.

So, we are still in the editing phase, but I can’t wait to share this next book with you when everything is done.

Until then, you being the lover of unravelling clues that you are, I thought I’d share one of my favorite puzzles with you: Einstein’s Riddle. Can you solve it? Send me your answer!

Einstein’s Riddle: Who owns the fish?

Einstein wrote this riddle in the 1900’s, and said only 2% of the world could solve it. Does that include you?

This is fully solvable: the clues are not misleading or trickery. Here’s the facts of the puzzle:

1. There are 5 houses horizontally in 5 different colors. In each house lives one person, each with a different nationality.
2. The 5 owners each drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet.
3. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage.

The riddle is: Who owns the fish?

Here are your clues:

• The Brit lives in the red house
• The Swede keeps dogs as pets
• The Dane drinks tea
• The green house is on the left of the white house
• The green house’s owner drinks coffee
• The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds
• The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill
• The man living in the center house drinks milk
• The Norwegian lives in the first house
• The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats
• The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill
• The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer
• The German smokes Prince
• The Norwegian lives next to the blue house
• The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water

Can you solve it? Send me your answer!