Today’s challenge, however, comes in the form of a riddle, and is quite tricky, causing many headaches around the world.
So it’s essential to focus and concentrate before you answer. If you take your time, it shouldn’t be a problem.
What is the name of the 5th?
Here is today’s challenge. The image below shows a riddle that goes:
The riddle states:
“Riddle me this… Penny has 5 children. The 1st kid is named January. 2nd kid is named February. Her 3rd is called March. 4th is April. What is the name of the 5th. Read carefully.”
The answer is in the question itself, users have to look over it in order to get it correct. Some may say that it is May, and some may say that it is a completely different name. The riddle seems like it is a bit open-ended, but Penny’s fifth child does have a name.
If you can’t solve it, we’ll share the correct answer after the image below.
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ANSWER:
Are you stuck? No worries, we have a hint for you. As stated in the riddle, you should read carefully. Look at the sentences and how they are structured. With this, you can get to the conclusion of the riddle. Are you still stumped, or have you figured it out by now?
Still haven’t figured it out? We’ll give you one last shot. If you did not look at it yet, look carefully at the punctuation.
The answer is What.
The riddle isn’t actually asking a question, it is giving a statement. In the last line, it says “What is the name of the fifth child.” So in the end, the child’s name has already been given to users. It was up to the users to interpret the riddle themselves.
Did you get it right? If not, don’t fear. There are more riddles coming your way to engage your brain!
