It took me 6 or 7 days of thinking, about an hour a day before i went to bed, and i finally figured it out with pure logic. My daughter did it in 3 days with math and gosh knows how many hours she spent on it, bc she was thinking about it non-stop.
So it should take 6-7 hours of non-stop thinking if you're a genius, like us! That's why it is a great brain exercise.