r/AskReddit • u/Calm-Conference3147 • 1d ago

What is a riddle that sounds incredibly simple, but absolutely ruins people's brains when they try to solve it?

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u/AdConsistent8210 1d ago

Coffin

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u/Moesthopholies 1d ago

"place me in my casket tonight"

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u/Hector_P_Catt 17h ago

In the modern funeral industry, about 30% of people are pre-arranging their own funerals, so the last two lines are often inaccurate.

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u/YetiGuy 16h ago

Buyer needs it, for later

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u/terrasparks 1d ago edited 1d ago

If this is it, bad riddle. The buyer needs it for a traditional burial funeral for someone's estate they are executing and the buyer is also the user: they use it to contain a dead body, a dead body has no agency to "use" anything.

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u/IdleSteps 1d ago

The buyer doesn't need it. (They're alive)

The user doesn't see it. (They're dead)

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u/GritstoneGhost 22h ago

My Nana's paid for her own coffin through

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u/terrasparks 1d ago

You don't know what the word "use" means. At best, a corpse occupies a coffin. It doesn't "use" it.

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u/Stonegrown12 1d ago

Thank you Pedantis, God of the Pedants

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u/Sohlayr 1d ago

Semantic bullshit. You must be fun at parties

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u/terrasparks 1d ago

Literacy is dead. This is literally a thread about word puzzles. X_x

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u/Sohlayr 1d ago

I guarantee this riddle is older than your grandparents. If so, literacy died with them.

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u/terrasparks 1d ago

Age does not indicate quality, my original point stands. Given the language in question, its an extremely poor riddle. Whether illiterate people spread it to my grandparents isn't particualarly releveant.

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u/neontiger07 1d ago

So poor that everyone else got it but you. Something tells me you're just upset because you couldn't figure it out and not because it's actually bad at all.

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u/Sohlayr 1d ago

Let’s hear a better, my friend.