I had HopeTheFallen wrote:You can actually be saved any amount of embarrassment at this point in proceedings?
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When you say it like that, I don't feel so bad no more. It was the Chinese translation that was at faultFist and Faith wrote:So, Vain, let me make sure I understand this. You were translating a riddle from Chinese. And you were so sure of your translating skills that you repeatedly assured us that you had it all correct, with nothing missing. Kinda cocky, eh?
OTOH, chickens can stand on 1 leg practically forever if they want to.wayfriend wrote:I don't think horses can stand on two legs, Vain. At least, not for long enough to count them all!
I thought you had to solve it based on the information given in the original riddle. If your solution requires you to stand in front of all the animals and look at them, can't you just count how many are chickens and how many are horses? Why do you have to count their legs at all? Isn't that the easiest way to do it?Vain wrote:That's a pretty cool way to solve for that WF
OK so here goes.
Stand in front of all the animals, and tell them that every time you blow a whistle, they must lift one leg.
After two blows of the whistle, all the chickens are sitting on their bums and there's only 10 legs left on the ground - and they must belong to horses.
And they have to belong to 5 horses