People Are Struggling To Solve This Four Men Riddle

From the challenges of the Sphinx to the intentional nonsense in Alice in Wonderland, riddles have a long history of tricking and puzzling people. But eventually, one clever thinker comes along and solves it in one winking masterstroke. Unless of course, it's the "why is a raven like a writing desk" riddle, which has no answer. 

I always said the answer was both ravens and writing desks are both composed of matter, but since Lewis Carroll is dead, he can't tell me how clever I am. Pity.

Anyway, the riddle we're going to be looking at today isn't quite as old as either of those, but it feels somehow familiar. Some of us may have heard it before, but it feels just far enough in the past that we've forgotten the answer.

Well, let's remind ourselves of this classic riddle about four men taking a little voyage in a boat.

Don't forget to COMMENT if you got the answer right away so we can know how sharp you are.

So yes, we begin with four men in a boat.

It doesn't really matter what they're doing. The important part is they won't be doing it for long.

That's because their boat suddenly tips over.

But things are about to get worse for these four gentlemen.

Before they can get out, their boat sinks to the bottom of the ocean.

But the amazing thing isn't that they survived since they probably didn't.

No, the big takeaway is that not a single man got wet.

A few of you might have some ideas about how this could be possible. So let's go over a few conditions to this riddle.

Before you start, the men are not wearing scuba gear.

For the purposes of this riddle, assume they're dressed like these guys.

Also, the boat is an average, apparently poorly-built boat.

So we can rule out the Beatles traveling in a wondrous yellow submarine. It's too bad since there were four of them, so it would have been a clever answer.

So we're left with four average men who sank in an equally average boat.

So how is it that not a single man got wet? If you're as stuck as Patrick, here's the answer.

All four of the men were married.

Get it? Not a single man got wet.

Remember to COMMENT if you like your answer better than the real one.

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