The Vulkanians

Re: The Vulkanians


The only question posed by the riddle is 'do you know the ages too?'...it does not ask for the ages. therefore the answer is 'no'...it's like that annoying polar bear riddle

Hi, BlackBONs

There is an answer, albeit slightly flawed.

The only combinations of ages which could give 36 as a product are:

36,1,1 total 38
18,2,1 total 21
9,2,2 total 13
9,4,1 total 14
6,6,1 total 13
6,3,2 total 11
4,3,3 total 10

We can discount the first because the children were born since they last met 20 years ago.
Spok did not have enough information from the first 2 clues to work out their ages. He obviously knows his door number so that must mean that there were 2 combinations that added up to his door number, and the only 2 combinations are:

9,2,2
6,6,1

So he lived at number 13.

The last clue mentions his youngest child, which means that the answer must be 6,6,1 since the other answer gives joint youngest children.

The riddle is flawed because he could have 2 children of 2 years old but born 10 or 11 months apart, so he would still have a "youngest". Even if he had twins of 2 years old, one would have been born first, so the other would still be the youngest, even if only a few minutes younger.