Each 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 – 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 week’s riddle:
A farmer and his hired help were carrying grain to the barn. The farmer carried one sack of grain and the hired help carried two sacks. Who carried the heavier load?

The farmer. His sack was filled with grain. The hired hand is only carrying two (empty) sacks.
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Unless the help had grain in their sacks, the farmer did.
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The farmer’s sack of grain weighed more than than the hired help’s two empty sacks.
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The farmer. Unless those sacks were made of lead.
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assuming that the hired hand was simply carrying two (empty) sacks, the farmer
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Depends on how many are ‘the hited help’ – if two, then all equal, if more then the farmer.
Or do you not carry grain to a barn?? Is it a trick, grain goes in siloes? (you can tell I’m not from a farming background!)
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the farmer. his sack had grain. the help just had sacks.
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the farmer did. The hired help was a slacker and carried empty sacks.
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The farmer; the hired help was carrying empty sacks.
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