A few riddles for you to solve

HS

Let's just see how good you all are at riddles, post your answers (without cheating by looking up on the web!).

1} A fox, chicken and rabbit are on one island and they need to get to the other island. There is only one boat and it's too far to swim. The fox can't go with the chicken because he will get eaten. The rabbit can't go with the fox because he too will get eaten. How do they all get across?

2} A father and son get into an accident. 2 ambulances take them to separate hospitals. As the son is about to be operated on, the Dr. says, "I can't operate, he's my son." How can this be?

3} Me and my horse came upon a bridge. I rode across yet I walked across. How can this be?


Good Luck!

sonny

# 2 is the Dr. is the boys mother.

I'll let someone else answer the others.

ray a

1. Rabbit and chicken row over to the other island. Rabbit returns with the boat. Fox rows over by himself leaving Rabbit on island #1. Chicken returns to pick up the Rabbit and they both row to the other island. All are safe and happy.

2. I cheated and looked at Sonny's answer.

3. Should read "My horse and I..." Don't know the answer.

HS

You're right on number 1 Ray, and Sonny is right on number 2...leave it to a woman to figure that one out. Most men I know sit there and look dumb founded as to the answer (sexism or chauvanism at their best!)

As far as my horse and I...the original riddle reads a man and his horse, "I rode across, yet I walked across" how can that be. Didn't want to confuse people with first/third person.

I always had a problem with the first riddle, what's to stop the fox from eating the chicken or the rabbit on the island? I would think the fox could eventually catch them!

ray a

OK, I have to admit after I saw Sonny's answer, I thought #-o

With correcting your grammar, I had that usage beaten into me by my mother-in-law years ago. She was an English major in college and it was one of her pet peeves. Didn't mean to sound pedantic.

HS

Not at all, didn't even think about it when I posted it as I was changing it from "a man and his horse" to "me and my horse". It is a pet peeve of mine as well...

Don D

The fox was vegetarian so there was no need to get anal about the solution.
Ray's mother in law never really liked him and was overheard to say, "Personally, I would not have picked him." That's why she always corrected him with little stuff like grammer and underwear in the floor. Sonny did not figure out that answer. It's simple. She's heard the riddle already.

HS

You're just mad because you didn't figure it out yourself! I'd like to believe that sonny is one of us 'clever women'!

sonny

Thank you HS and you are right Don, I had seen that riddle before and figured it out that time! sorry to disappoint you!

ray a

Don, have you been talking to "mom's" other son-in-law? He says the same thing about me.

jmpmo

Ok, but I still don't know the answer to the third one. What am I missing? x:-/

mjindra

How about this:

The water was so high, I had to stand on the horse's back. . . so I was walking on his back while I rode across?

The answer must be easier than that, eh?

HS

The third riddle is easier spoken aloud than read...

Answer:

'Yet I' (or yeti) is the name of the horse!

jmpmo

#-o