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Title: the name riddle
Post by: Akuma on May 11, 2020, 15:36
Someone’ s mum has 4 sons:
North, West, and South.

What is the name of the fourth son.

Reply to this post with the correct name of the fourth son.

First correct answer wins.
Title: Re: the name riddle
Post by: Akuma on May 11, 2020, 15:40
just posting so its first on top, and easily visible.
Title: Re: the name riddle
Post by: AGENT on May 11, 2020, 15:43
This is easy.
Answer is "Someone's"
Title: Re: the name riddle
Post by: Akuma on May 11, 2020, 15:44
This is easy.
Answer is "Someone's"

incorrect.
Title: Re: the name riddle
Post by: luke on May 11, 2020, 16:00
The riddle is ambiguous and has no definitive answer

We can interpret someone's mother as mother of a person named Someone, then the answer would be "Someone". We can follow the analogy and then the answer would be "East". We can also interpret someone's mother as a mother of someone (= anyone) then the answer is arbitrary.

We can also assume that the said mother has more than 4 children - 4 sons and x daughters where the mentioned "Someone" (in both interpretations) is a daughter, then again the answer is arbitrary.

Thus the riddle is invalid and the topic should be locked
Title: Re: the name riddle
Post by: Akuma on May 11, 2020, 16:02
The riddle is ambiguous and has no definitive answer

We can interpret someone's mother as mother of a person named Someone, then the answer would be "Someone". We can follow the analogy and then the answer would be "East". We can also interpret someone's mother as a mother of someone (= anyone) then the answer is arbitrary.

We can also assume that the said mother has more than 4 children - 4 sons and x daughters where the mentioned "Someone" (in both interpretations) is a daughter, then again the answer is arbitrary.

Thus the riddle is invalid and the topic should be locked

It has a definite answer, and all you said is incorrect.
Title: Re: the name riddle
Post by: Akuma on May 11, 2020, 16:03
Salih solved it correctly and PM-ed me the solution, he won't post here so others can try and solve it as well.
Title: Re: the name riddle
Post by: luke on May 11, 2020, 16:09
Ofcourse you can also just read the text and say that the answer is "What"

But like i said the riddle itself is incorrect, as in this interpretation there is no question which makes the "riddle" a simple statement.

Either way you need to find more smart riddles, looking forward to you posting them
Title: Re: the name riddle
Post by: Akuma on May 11, 2020, 16:14
Ofcourse you can also just read the text and say that the answer is "What"

But like i said the riddle itself is incorrect, as in this interpretation there is no question which makes the "riddle" a simple statement.

Either way you need to find more smart riddles, looking forward to you posting them

Thats the point of the riddle to pay attention to the details.

What is the correct answer.

The problem in posting riddles here is that probably any of them can be easily googled, but I might figure out something.
Title: Re: the name riddle
Post by: -Aleksandar- on May 11, 2020, 17:09
Someone’ s mum has 4 sons:
North, West, and South.

What is the name of the fourth son.

Reply to this post with the correct name of the fourth son.

First correct answer wins.
Title: Re: the name riddle
Post by: Jimmy on May 11, 2020, 19:02
its Svetlana, or as friends call her , Ceca.
Title: Re: the name riddle
Post by: Astaroth on May 11, 2020, 21:30
Someone’ s mum has 4 sons:
North, West, and South.

What is the name of the fourth son.

Reply to this post with the correct name of the fourth son.

First correct answer wins.
This nice lady knows it.
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Title: Re: the name riddle
Post by: Tihulu on May 13, 2020, 05:05
John Cena