Question - Solving the St. Ives Riddle
Solution:
The riddle in the image is a classic brain teaser. It reads:"On my way to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, and each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives. How many were going to St. Ives?"The trick to solving this riddle lies in the first sentence: "On my way to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives." If you met them on the way to St. Ives, it does not necessarily mean that the man, his wives, their sacks, cats, or kits were going to St. Ives.Therefore, the only person implied to be going to St. Ives is "I", which refers to the person speaking in the riddle. The answer is that only one person was going to St. Ives.
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