BosGuy brain teaser

Posted on October 25, 2013 | 14 Comments

brain teaserEach Friday morning I post a riddle to get you to think outside the box and exercise your brain.  If you are stumped, feel free to get help or share it with a friend or colleague to see if you can figure it out together.

I’ll confirm answers later in the day so don’t worry if you don’t see your comment posted right away. I want to give everyone a chance.

This weeks riddle: 

As I was going to St Ives I met a man with seven wives.  Every wife had seven sacks. Every sack had seven cats. Every cat had seven kits; kits, cats, sacks, wives. How many were going to St Ives?

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14 responses to “BosGuy brain teaser”

  3. Blobby | October 25, 2013 at 10:05 am | Reply

    351? Clearly you’re not counting the sacks, as they aren’t a living animal. And you have to count the man.

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  4. Carl Strauser | October 25, 2013 at 10:04 am | Reply

    One. Uno. Ein. 00110001

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  5. Anonymous | October 25, 2013 at 9:36 am | Reply

    One. I was going to St. Ives. Those I met were going the other direction.

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  6. eric | October 25, 2013 at 9:19 am | Reply

    only 1–“I” was going.

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  7. John | October 25, 2013 at 9:17 am | Reply

    Only you were going to St. Ives because you met a man which means he was not going that way.

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  8. Anonymous | October 25, 2013 at 8:55 am | Reply

    2,801

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  10. Les (Lez) Harrison | October 25, 2013 at 8:51 am | Reply

    Only ONE person was going to St. Ives. All the rest, the forty wives, the cats and kittens, etc., were heading in the opposite direction.

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  13. Robert | October 25, 2013 at 8:28 am | Reply

    LOVE THIS RIDDLE!

    1 is the answer. You are the one going to St. Ives.

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