An Old Riddle
As I was going to St Ives,
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits;
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St Ives?
I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks,
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits;
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were there going to St Ives?
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posted by Rajesh Lal at
8:31 PM
21 Comments:
One! Just you.
Just because you met these guys
Doesn't mean they're going to St. Ives.
400...
its been posted or something similar to this....
-Rx
forgot about the sack... mines wrong...
-Rx
555-0001
...or was that the answer on Die Hard 3? I can't remember.
3088 incl the man?
is that right?
401 living creatures
7 wives (must be from Texas)
49 cats
343 kittens
1 husband
+ 1 traveller
----
401
2801 (including man)
1 Man
7 wives
49 Sacks
343 Cats
2401 Kits
2402
ONE! This is because he was the only one going to st.ives, he met all the others on the way back! Old riddle but still a cracker!
One
2 the man you met on the road told you about his strange dillema. How do you fit 14 animals in a sack?
ONE AND ONLY ONE
ejrm_1978
the ambiguity of these riddles annoy me...
to answer the sack question... it was probably a big sack
only one is going to St. Ives and that is the traveler because on his way he met a man with seven wives and so on and so forth...
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an oldie but still has some people going the wrong way. I agree with any and all that has given the unified answer of one. incidently folks they put the man he met in jail later on when they arrestrd him of having seven wives, even in st ives you can't have 7 wives. who could stand that anyway? lol
one man the rest of those people and other animals/things he met on the way to st ives
just that one man,
cause' the question asked "whos' going to st.ives"...
&nd everyone else already lived there.
so hes' the only one that is going to st.ives.
the easiest one yet... its just one... if he met them than they were walking towards him... the opposite direction... he was by himself... they must of been coming from that place
The answer is either one or zero depending on how you interpret the riddle.
"Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,How many were there going to St Ives?"
~How many Kits, cats, sacks and wives are going to St Ives? = Zero
or
~How many are present in this scenario going to St Ives? =
One(the traveler)
(haven't read any other posts)
It only says the man was going to St. Ives, and he met the man and his wives, who aren't traveling with him.
so, out of kits, cats, sacks, and wives, no one is going to St. Ives.
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