Answer: Man. The times of the day are a metaphor for the times of the human age: a newborn child crawls on all four, a young man walks on two legs, and an old man is supporting himself with a cane.
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When You Speak My Name, I'm Gone
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There's various variations, but they all come down to this: "When you speak my name, I disappear." The answer: silence
Answer: only one. It didn't matter where the man with seven wives went, as the man telling the riddle was the only one going to st. Ives in the first place.
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12 Men, 12 Pears, and Each
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Again, several variations, and sound something like this: "12 men spot a tree with 2 pears. Each picked one pear. When the men were gone, there was 11 pears left in the tree. How is that possible?" The answer: "Each" is the name of the man that picked the pear.
* revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 as a tip for himself. Each guest got $1 back: so now each guest only paid $9; bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. And $27 $2 = $29 so, if the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
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Thirty White Horses
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Gets Everywhere, But Stays In A Corner
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"What travels around the world, but spends most of its time in a corner"? Answer: a post stamp
Answer: You ask "show me which path your brother would show that leads to the honest town". The brother telling the truth will point to the town of liars, as his brother would lie. The lying brother would point at the town of the honest, but as he must lie, he instead points to his own town. Regardless of who answers, the honest town is in the othe
It goes like this: There's an island inhabited by 100 dragons, all with green eyes, but if a dragon finds out what color his eyes are, he turns into a swallow at midnight. After being welcomed by them on an island, a man tell the dragons how one of them has beautiful green eyes. What will happen next?