Riddle
Aug 9, 2020 02:01:05 #
Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly three eggs, each person had an egg. How do you explain this?
Aug 9, 2020 02:09:25 #
Aug 9, 2020 06:09:18 #
And there had to have been three fathers and two sons. After all, the grandfather was also the son of someone.
Aug 9, 2020 22:46:22 #
Cheese wrote:
Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly three eggs, each person had an egg. How do you explain this?
Easy,, one of the eggs was a double yolker. Us country folk try to keep things simple. Yeah there is such a thing as twin chickens.
Aug 10, 2020 06:27:50 #
There were only 3 people-two sons and 1 father. The boys had the same father but a different mother.
Aug 10, 2020 08:50:55 #
Aug 10, 2020 10:07:05 #
Aug 10, 2020 10:07:54 #
rplain1 wrote:
And there had to have been three fathers and two sons. After all, the grandfather was also the son of someone.
Yes, but at the breakfast table he was not playing the role of son. (If you saw a wedding picture, you would say "This is the bride and groom." You would not say "This is someone's son and daughter."
Aug 10, 2020 10:09:30 #
usnret wrote:
Easy,, one of the eggs was a double yolker. Us country folk try to keep things simple. Yeah there is such a thing as twin chickens.
But the double yolker was still ONE egg, wasn't it? And each person had an egg.
Aug 10, 2020 10:11:09 #
Poohpz wrote:
There were only 3 people-two sons and 1 father. The boys had the same father but a different mother.
OP said there were two fathers.
Aug 10, 2020 12:58:44 #
Aug 10, 2020 13:31:06 #
RowdyRay
Loc: MN
windshoppe wrote:
Both fathers are, of course, also sons. One had 2 eggs, the other only one.
"They ate exactly three eggs, each person had an egg." Three eggs, three people.
I should have been clearer. Three generations. For example: My father, myself and my son. Three people. Two fathers and two sons. Technically three sons and my son is a father. But, for this purpose.....
Aug 10, 2020 15:13:29 #
rplain1 wrote:
And there had to have been three fathers and two sons. After all, the grandfather was also the son of someone.
um... no. two fathers and three sons. There's no guarantee that the youngest son is also a father (but the oldest father is also a son)
Aug 10, 2020 23:43:04 #
Aug 11, 2020 22:10:36 #
Jesu S wrote:
But the double yolker was still ONE egg, wasn't it? And each person had an egg.
Two eggs in one shell.
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