Riddle/puzzle game

[pyan]

It still works, though, amazingly enough. Daisies close up their petals at night, so first thing in the morning they look like little balls, and in the early evening their petals are fully open - "pointing in all directions" .

And no, I'm afraid city is wrong.

[Dave]

It's an Echo!

[Lucien21]

Echo


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[Paige Turner]

Originally Posted by HoopyFrood

Apparently Paige made the riddle up, so I wouldn't bend your brain trying to work it out!

I did. I'm sorry. I feel shame. Two minutes for interference and a game misconduct for me.

[Faceless Woman]

Wind? Does wind hear?

[Joel007]

Ok, this is one i heard once, a long time ago, so i hope i get it right

Twin brothers, identical in every way, save that one is left handed and one is right handed, challenge each other to a duel with pistols. The feud is over a woman that they both love equally, and finally their similarities are their greatest problem.
At dawn they walk 10 paces, turn, and fire at each other. Neither is hit. The walls behind them are unmarked, with no bullets at the bases of either. The pistols are examined and they are working; they were loaded and had fired correctly.

What happened?

[Faceless Woman]

The bullets hit each other in the middle.

[Joel007]

hah, a bit too easy for all you smart people

well, i'm out. any ideas?

[Faceless Woman]

Here's one that has divided my family for years. Try it.

A man is looking at a photograph of a small boy. His wife asks him who it is. He replies; brothers andsisters has he none, but this man's father is my father's son. Who is the boy?

[Joel007]

his son

[Faceless Woman]

I think his wife would know if it was his son, don't you?

[Joel007]

just because she asks him doesn't mean she doesn't know.

Photo's father =
Man's father's son (him).

the actual riddle is "Brothers and sisters I have none..."

[Joel007]

The "brothers and sisters I have none" avoids the nephew option, making only one answer possible. If you took that line out then it could be a nephew or his son. Changing it to "he has none" makes it irrelevent and a waste of space.

[Faceless Woman]

We're divided between his father and him. I tried drawing a diagram once. I'll accept Him.

[Joel007]

A man is looking at a photograph of a small boy. His wife asks him who it is. He replies; brothers andsisters has he none, but this man's father is my father's son. Who is the boy?

ignoring the irrelevant parts, you've got this
[person in photograph] has father. this is who we need to find out about.
[his father] is the Man's father's son. Father's son is a jump up and then back down the generation ladder. leaving only the possibility of the man talking, or his brother(s).

therefore, the father of the person in the picture is the Man looking at the picture, or, if you use your version of "Brothers and sisters he has none": possibly his brother, making the boy in the picture his son or nephew.