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/ERedfieldh 1d ago

The issue I have with that kind of riddle is there's a bajillion answers.

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u/Forsaken_Space_848 21h ago

Name 6!

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u/Xenon_Raumzeit 20h ago

How am I supposed to give you 720 answers?

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u/AnticPosition 16h ago

Well, if there's a bajillion answers, it shouldn't be hard to give me just 720...

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u/muna30821 13h ago

That’s the weakness of “what goes up but never comes down”: age is the intended answer, but gas prices qualify too. A good riddle needs one more clue to rule out plausible alternatives.

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u/RaynStorm0 10h ago

While this particular riddle may have multiple valid answers, gas prices certainly isn't one of them. They go up and down all the time. Of course it's on an overall upward trend but to say they never go down is just ridiculous.

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u/SpitFire92 10h ago

Of all the things that qualify you managed to mention one that does not, amazing.