Riddle From The Past

Missileer

Missileer

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This has been around a long time and some will remember it.

When asked this riddle, 80% of Kindergarten kids got the answer compared to 17% of Stanford University Seniors.

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
 
hahah i think i know.

the answer is "nothing"

thats the only answer i can see kindergarden kids getting and not college students. the college students assume that there is something that fills the description where the children still are "naive" enough to think that there is nothing that can fulfill the requirements.
 
behemoth79 said:
hahah i think i know.

the answer is "nothing"

thats the only answer i can see kindergarden kids getting and not college students. the college students assume that there is something that fills the description where the children still are "naive" enough to think that there is nothing that can fulfill the requirements.
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You got it. The big holdup for College students was "if you eat it you will die." I guess abstract thinking dies with childhood.
 
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