OK lateral thinkers. Try this one:

Someone's mother has 4 sons: North, West, and South. What is the name of the fourth son.

It could be ... Ooops.....Big Mistake....

But I think the answer is obvious. Think outside the dots.

What do you think.

Jay&Dee

Sam, parents were hoping for a girl!

ballast2 wrote:

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G'day JayDee. Tricky. As there is no question mark after the fourth son his name would be What.
Cheers.

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 Yep. Agree.

Like the old Abbot & Costello baseball commentary - what, who etc.

LLD wrote:

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ballast2 wrote:

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G'day JayDee. Tricky. As there is no question mark after the fourth son his name would be What.
Cheers.

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 Yep. Agree.

Like the old Abbot & Costello baseball commentary - what, who etc.

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 Hi Forumites,

My view is that the answer is in the question.

Let's analysis  the Question

Q. ( ""Someone's mother has 4 sons: North, West, and South. What is the name of the fourth son."")

Someone's mother 4th son is called SOMEONE. Someone's has 3 brothers North, West, & South.

Yes it is a tricky Question.

Cheers

Jay&Dee

Of course I could be wrong in my guess.

G'day. What is the name of the fourth son is a statement. What is the name of the fourth son ? is a question so his name must be What.

Cheers.

Yes - if you had put a question mark after the What is... sentence, then the answer would be Someone. Someone's mother.....

A few picky people here...but then, it can be read both ways.

Have a good day everyone.  

JayDee wrote:

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LLD wrote:

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ballast2 wrote:

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G'day JayDee. Tricky. As there is no question mark after the fourth son his name would be What.
Cheers.

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 Yep. Agree.

Like the old Abbot & Costello baseball commentary - what, who etc.

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 Hi Forumites,

My view is that the answer is in the question.

Let's analysis  the Question

Q. ( ""Someone's mother has 4 sons: North, West, and South. What is the name of the fourth son."")

Someone's mother 4th son is called SOMEONE. Someone's has 3 brothers North, West, & South.

Yes it is a tricky Question.

 

Cheers

Jay&Dee

Of course I could be wrong in my guess.

 

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My reckoning is that What is the fourth son.

Someone is a daughter, having 4 brothers North, West, South and What.

Relax-n wrote:

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JayDee wrote:

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LLD wrote:

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ballast2 wrote:

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G'day JayDee. Tricky. As there is no question mark after the fourth son his name would be What.
Cheers.

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 Yep. Agree.

Like the old Abbot & Costello baseball commentary - what, who etc.

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 Hi Forumites,

My view is that the answer is in the question.

Let's analysis  the Question

Q. ( ""Someone's mother has 4 sons: North, West, and South. What is the name of the fourth son."")

Someone's mother 4th son is called SOMEONE. Someone's has 3 brothers North, West, & South.

Yes it is a tricky Question.

 

Cheers

Jay&Dee

Of course I could be wrong in my guess.

 

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My reckoning is that What is the fourth son.

Someone is a daughter, having 4 brothers North, West, South and What.

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 I agree ....