Hard
Chicken Riddle
There are 30 cows in a field, and 28 chickens. How many didn't?
Choose an answer
A.28
B.18
C.2
D.10. Listen closely: 30 cows, and twenty-eight chickens. Say EIGHT and ATE. They sound the same. Therefore, it means 20 ATE chickens. 30-20=10, so 10 cows didn't eat any chickens.
Answer: 10. Listen closely: 30 cows, and twenty-eight chickens. Say EIGHT and ATE. They sound the same. Therefore, it means 20 ATE chickens. 30-20=10, so 10 cows didn't eat any chickens.
A homophone riddle — "twenty-eight" sounds like "twenty ate," meaning 20 cows ate chickens, leaving 10 that didn't.