the hard riddle

grandfather, father and son....


sheesh.

there's four people going fishing, each catches a fish, but they only have 3 fish? how does that work?

Read again mans....it doesn't say there are 4 people going fishing.

It reads....there are 2 fathers and 2 sons.....

1 grandfather
2 father
3 son

Tell me, what is the relationship of #2 to #3?

Now, what is the relationship of #2 to #1?

#2 is both a father and a son.

Cute avatar by the way.

oh cool, thanks. i get it now.

cool bananas Chai I like the way you get em to think, without straight out giving them the answer

father and sons
Maybe I'm not thinking this through right. But shouldn't the riddle be:

Two fathers and three sons...

Why? Well, the grandfather, he had a father too right? So he's a son. Maybe the grandfather's father isn't living anymore, but the grandfather is still a son for all that.

No, no, larad. The fact that the grandfather is (obviously) also a son, not just a father, is irrlevant. The fact remains that the fishing party consists of two (2) fathers (dad and gramps) and (2)sons (dad and junior). There's nothing wrong with the riddle just the way it's given. If you want to mess around with it, you could just as easily postulate that the youngest member of the party, the son, is also a father. So what if he is? It doesn't change the basic riddle.

father and sons
"two fathers and two sons go fishing. They each catch a fish and come home with 3 fish. no fish are eaten. how is this possible?"

If every male is a son, two males went fishing. Every male is a son, but not every male is a father. These two, however, are fathers. They needn't be related, however.

If each male caught a fish, two fish were caught. If they came home with three fish, they set out with some fish (as bait) and used up all but one.

The fish they came back with were: 2 caught on the trip, and one left over from the stock they set out with as bait.