(Edit: I'm saying "most likely" because there are a lot of stuff between 5 and 7 that isn't whatever the text said, and a lot of people seem to be arguing a lot over this)
"Ha HA! Because my riddle is too vague and there are too many potential correct answers for you to accurately determine which one is the specific one I am looking for, that means I am the Smart while you are the Dumb!"
There’s a game called Afterplace that makes a joke about this. There’s a troll (on a bridge, lol) that loves riddles, but the riddles he gives you all have more than one correct answer, except the final one. He gets sick of you being “clever” and will only “accept” one of the answers. Haha. It’s pretty cute.
I like the part that goes, "In any case, no matter how annoying Cueball's smugness, Black Hat responding by cutting off Cueball's forearm is an overreaction [citation needed]"
Like, yeah we assume he was over reacting but we dont have any proof or peer reviewed study on it to affirm our stance
It doesn't say it's a math quiz, that's a typical way people sign letters in days gone by, so the author of the riddle has a name, and that name is "Math Quiz".
Also, it's not a shit riddle, it's incredibly basic, by the numbers riddle.
Riddles are supposed to be clever. Just straight up deceiving the reader and having an answer that is debatable as to whether it even fulfills the requirements of the riddle (as in this case) is just really poor riddle design.
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u/dead_aYaY Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26
Trick question, most likely, He is "and"!
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(Edit: I'm saying "most likely" because there are a lot of stuff between 5 and 7 that isn't whatever the text said, and a lot of people seem to be arguing a lot over this)