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Juxta · Unfettered Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Posts: 675

Tum-te-tum....Linkification

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**Posted:** Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:48 am

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chimera245 · Decorated Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 209

This is a Prime Number card is it not - can anyone spot either the letter corners or the Playing Card details?

**Posted:** Mon Jun 12, 2006 4:48 am

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pickleps · Kilroy Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 2

on gadgetell

**Posted:** Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:26 pm

fretty

Well, just to confirm, the top part is part of a letter O and the bottom is part of the letter E

**Posted:** Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:50 am

Soulsproximity1 · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 135

Someone should update the wiki.

**Posted:** Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:43 pm

Juxta · Unfettered Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Posts: 675

Yeah. I think Someone is away on holiday at the moment. Apparently had to take time off with stress - he gets overworked you see, by the lazy sods who always expect "Someone" to do everything for them.

Rolling Eyes

J

**Posted:** Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:03 pm

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Carma1313

Did anyone else notice the lack of 'as I was GOING to St.Ives I PASSED a man..'

This card says nothing about whether he was or was not going to St. Ives.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:21 am

jojojojo

It's a very well known riddle. I think I first heard it as a child. When one says passed they generally mean they went by them. If he went "passed" as in overtook him, it would of been more explicit.

It took me a while to notice that I have seen the cat before. It features Melvin, Olli Leivers beloved kitty cat. A photo of him can be found here.

You may also notice that the style of the card is the same as the Telegraph Puzzle spread.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:00 pm

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Carma1313

i think the only thing that concerns me is the lack of usage of the word 'passed'

**Posted:** Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:08 pm

chrisjwilkinson · Boot Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 15

Well personally, I've only ever known the riddle to say 'I met a man...' rather than 'passed'. Passed to me suggests they were headed in the same direction - which confuses things somewhat.

**Posted:** Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:23 pm

Carma1313

bah!

your all wrong and I'm right LMFAO (joking!)

**Posted:** Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:09 am

Corvus

I've always hated this riddle for its ambiguity. Whether the man you met was coming from or going to St. Ives, it quite clearly asks "Kits cats sacks and wives, how many were going to St. Ives?" Got that? "Kits cats sacks and wives", not me, not the guy I met, "Kits cats sacks and wives".

To answer the question we have to know whether the speaker was a kit, a cat, a sack, or a wife, which it does not say, plus the number of each that were also going to St. Ives. Regardless of whether the man you met was coming from or going to St. Ives, any number of kits, cats, sacks, or wives could also have been coming from or going to St. Ives at the same time. Perhaps one of the wives was carrying 2 sacks, while 3 cats and 128 kits were going to St. Ives. There is absolutely no way to tell.

Now in the traditional rhyme the man one met was surgically joined to the entire menagerie and was going in the opposite direction, so none were going to St. Ives. Obviously then, the answer is zero, because I am the only one going to St. Ives and I am not a kit, a cat, a sack, or a wife.

But even that one is wrong.

What a lame puzzle.

**Posted:** Thu Nov 09, 2006 1:50 am

Mexican

It's not a lame puzzle, you just can't think about it that hard.

**Posted:** Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:05 am

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