The Enid Blyton Society

Well done to all! Maybe the obvious answer is not the correct one?

I hadn't heard of most of these (not even Sixret's, although it is obvious when you look at it)... maybe we were starved of trick question riddles when I was at school? I know a few, but can't remember them actually being shared in the playground.

My own favourite (which my mum taught me when I was really little) is probably one of the oldest of all...

Took me a minute to get the chalk board one but I did get it!

I remember my whole class once being sent home with a slip of paper with "Constantinople is a very long word, can you spell it?" written on it as some sort of joke to play on our parents.

Fiona1986 wrote:Took me a minute to get the chalk board one but I did get it!

Right, I'll admit I was in a hurry this morning when I saw it and couldn't stop and think about it but didn't want it bothering me all day, so I thought "ah, what the heck" and Googled it. Which is blatant cheating of the worst possible kind. Usually I'm better than that at trick questions and I regret I spoiled this one for myself, but sometimes impatience trumps cleverness with me.

I did just remember another one from my childhood — "How many letters are there in the alphabet?"

"Pete and Re-pete went down to the river. Pete fell in. Who was left?"

The victim can't understand why you keep saying the original question again . . .

Sounds a bit like the old gag we used to do with the piece of paper labelled "How to Keep an Idiot Amused for Hours! Please turn over..." — with exactly the same thing written on the other side.

It's fun hearing of/being reminded of all these.

Courtenay wrote:I did just remember another one from my childhood — "How many letters are there in the alphabet?"

That puts me in mind of "How many months have twenty-eight days?"

Well I can answer the alphabet one (and not with 26) but I can't see the joke/riddle in yours Anita.

It could be 25 (because the Angel said 'No L'.)

On that note, how many weeks belong to a year? 46, because the other 6 are Lent.

"How many months have 28 days?"

- all of them.

sixret wrote:Well done to all! Maybe the obvious answer is not the correct one?

http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/01/can-you-s ... d-6481295/
I plan to kill you all with this.

Nice one!

Ooh, I've done similar puzzles before, but this one looks a lot harder. I will give it a go, but maybe when I've got a bit more time to sit down to it — will let you know if I get it or if it defeats me. No spoilers on here, please!