12 men

DeadMan · Site Regular Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 56

This my 50th post so i want it wo be hard

Twelve pears hanging high, twelve men passing by.
Each took a pear and left eleven hanging there.
How can this be?

Riddleman · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 594

well the only guess i have is there was more then twelve pears on the tree you just metioned 12, or there was a basket of pears underneath the tree that they took the pears from, or there was 2 tress, or i just have no idea.

LuckilySweet · New Member Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 5

Each is on of the men, he took one pear and left eleven

Riddleman · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 594

huh?

Uplink_Agent · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:16 am Post subject:

LuckilySweet · New Member Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 5

Yeah, thats what I meant

deryk · Guy Who Comes A Lot Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 159

well who says the pears are in a tree? perhaps each man took a pear and each man actually hung up eleven more

Unclever title · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject:

Maybe there are 12 pear trees, each with 12 pears, so each of the 12 men approached a different tree and took a pear and left, leaving 12 trees each with 11 pears. I'm not entirely sure why but this was the second image in my head after I began reading this, first I though of 12 pairs on one tree but that didn't work, then this came up so, why not?

i know everything · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:51 am Post subject:

um. . .
a) man #1 took a pear, then all the rest stole it from each other, or
b) some of the pears were hanging low,
c) there were 11 on the ground' Very Happy

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suzanne16 · New Member Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 15

there was only one man and his name was "Each" duh

i know everything · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject:

yeah, but what kind of a mother would name her son "Each"?
think about it. . .

deryk · Guy Who Comes A Lot Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 159

thats what i was thinking and thats why i gave another answer

suzanne16 · New Member Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 15

it's not supposed to make sense it's part of the riddle you people are over thinking things

linlovesriddles · New Member Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

I want to say that this is a riddle that should be spoken aloud rather than written. 12 pairs as opposed to 12 pears, so if each man took one(out of each pair) that'd still leave the correct ammount.

deryk · Guy Who Comes A Lot Joined: 19 May 2006 Posts: 159

whoa that changes everything thanks lin

Aussie.Sex · New Member Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 24

Or this could be a 1960's riddle, referring to the KKK period in which Eleven could be the name of somebody, maybe...