Mogmatt16   
Nov 19, 2003
| this is good. It is a bit confusing at first but when you think about it it does make sence. |
bigsisjune 
Jul 09, 2004
| Actually, there's 63 letters in the answer!  |
canu
Jul 13, 2004
| In the answer which I give here to the question “How many letters are there in the answer to this question?” there are exactly one hundred twenty-eight letters. |
canu
Jul 13, 2004
| 0 |
Atropus 
Feb 03, 2005
| How many letters are there in "the answer to this question"?
the=3 answer=6 to=2 this=4 question=8
Well gee.. I count 23. Anyone else?  |
Sane 
Feb 11, 2005
| the=3 answer=6 to=2 this=4 question=8
None of those are an answer though.
I thought this teaser was incredibly clever and fun!  |
Sane
Feb 11, 2005
| Oh well seeing where you are coming from now (stupid me). It would have to be a trick question to qualify for that kind of silly answer Atty. |
darthforman
May 17, 2005
| Apparenty, I still don't get it because it makes absolutely no since to me, will someone please explain it.
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sniperkid990
May 23, 2005
| uhhhhhhhh? i still dont get it  |
sweetime
Jun 01, 2005
| Atropus - yup i got 23 letters in "the answer to this question" as well... |
Pop_Qla
Jun 05, 2005
| Good Job. I thought it was a nice teaser! |
jakeodee
Jun 09, 2005
| I am confused 
I don't get it someone help me |
Lunar_Light
Jun 12, 2005
| No, really. It's 63. |
Spice_2
Jun 13, 2005
| Lol, yea... you should of only put "four". Which is not the only answer. 0 (like sum1 else said), "There are fifteen." is another, " There are 8."is another. "There are 15 letters" "There are exactly 54 letters in the answer to the previous question"  |
gemini13
Jul 15, 2005
| The number 4, when written "four" has 4 letters. It is the only number that has the same number of letters as the actual number itself. eg. one = 3 letters, two = 3, three = 5, four = 4. Hope this helps. Too clever for me, I counted 23 too. |
summachick
Jul 17, 2005
| I think it should be 0 because the question asked how many letters are in the answer to this question = 0 letters because it should be a number but if u spell 0 zero then its 4
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soccercow10
Oct 01, 2005
| YUP!i guessed 23 too................but i still dont get why the answer is 4 ..... |
converse_chik
Oct 21, 2005
| ummmm, i don't get it! |
bhssoccer23
Nov 20, 2005
| I also guessed 23. There are so many possible answers that aren't really straightforward. |
bhssoccer23
Nov 20, 2005
| I actually guessed zero before I guessed 23, because it is a number, but numbers can still be written out, so I guess that's wrong, too. |
Brainy_1
Dec 28, 2005
| I said 4! I liked this one a lot!  EZ but fun! |
Vigo95
Feb 21, 2006
| i thought 23 , also |
TehIgnored
Mar 03, 2006
| I will agree there are many answers to the question.....four was the first one that popped into my mind. |
smiley_lover
Mar 07, 2006
| I was going to guess four or 0 but four won because it made more sense |
PineappleMama
Mar 07, 2006
| I said 23..."the answer to this question" ... very sneaky |
JessicaLynn
Mar 14, 2006
| i say it was 23 but four works i have no clue how you get onehundred somethin, though. |
thompson1
Mar 20, 2006
| I loved it, and also, the person that got a hundred something had exactly that many letters in their comment. I also have another answer:
There are seventeen. |
zonahobo
Mar 21, 2006
| Very interesting .. since a lot of commenters are providing alternate answers .. how about:
The square root of 225. .. Neat trick teaser! |
dear_tragedy
Mar 30, 2006
| i also got four but another posible answer possible answer could be ten letters |
spazzyjazzy93
Apr 06, 2006
| pretty easy but it was fun!!!!!!! |
calmsavior
Apr 12, 2006
| what about 0?
you could also use I. II, and III in roman numerals |
Smart_Alex
Apr 20, 2006
| I said 23. I sort of get it. Bah, of course not! |
Smart_Alex
Apr 20, 2006
| Oh, I get it now :p |
petraka
Apr 25, 2006
| i thought of 23. : ) that one was good. |
tca2
May 04, 2006
| Actually I got 22. The question is "How many letters are there." H-O-W-M-A-N-Y-L-E-T-T-E-R-S-A-R-T-H-E-R-E. Just a thought! |
Qmeister
May 05, 2006
| I thought it was 0 because its a number bot a letter |
Qmeister
May 05, 2006
| *not |
tolkienfan27
May 09, 2006
| After reading the various comments, I have concluded that there are an infinite number of answers that are all equally correct. |
Atypic4l
May 11, 2006
| For those of you that answered 23: Your answer has either two digits or eleven letters. The phrase "the answer to this question" does have 23 letters, but if your answer is "23" then you are incorrect. |
lukeschett
May 23, 2006
| 63!!!! I win!!!!
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icefire552
Jun 07, 2006
| i think we should get the writer here to explain. but when you think about it 0=zero=four letters |
kayleeskitties
Jul 03, 2006
| Please explain, where did "four" come from? I understand that "four" {4} has "four" letters to it but how does it pertain to the teaser? I am utterly confused....  |
pup_tonton
Jul 07, 2006
| dont know dont know how dont get it |
shadow-x
Jul 14, 2006
| i got 24 cause it said "in the answer or watever" and i counted that |
HiImDavid
Jul 25, 2006
| The question should be "What number has the same number of letters as it is?" That way, 0 would be zero which has 4 letters. 5,000 would be five thousand which would have 12 letters. That is what the question is asking.
However, i thought of an alternative answer, since other people were. "Not one nor two but twenty-five" if you don't count the hyphen as a letter but if you are weird and you do then "Not one nor two but twenty-seven" |
teen_wiz
Aug 09, 2006
| I'm thinkin' exactly the same thing as kayleeskitties. Someone help us all! |
josty
Aug 14, 2006
| that was tricky, it was very entertaining |
sayaah92
Aug 15, 2006
| I'm sure it would make sense if it was explained, but as it is, I totally don't get it. |
2rubystar2
Oct 14, 2006
| That made no sense whatsoever. I get what people are trying to say about "four" or something, but I believe the answer is 23 like a lot of other people. I truly thought this was a dumb and confusing teaser and hope you can come up with the right answer to your own teaser next time. |
i_luv_2_read
Oct 21, 2006
| i agree with the people who also have no idea where four came from...
please, someone explain how you get four from "How many letters are there in the answer to this question?"
this teaser needs to give us a clue to what the answer IS before we can figure out how many letters there are.....
i got 23 since i read the question as asking how many letters are there in "the answer to this question"....thought i was being clever and tricky.... |
Icecream-Queen
Nov 12, 2006
| hee hee
i love it
there should be a category that is called VERY tricky! |
ChristheGreat
Nov 12, 2006
| How does that answer the question.
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GilmoreGirl63
Nov 24, 2006
| I thought it was 23 because I counted the number of letters in 'the answer to this question'. Well, honest mistake! |
have_hope605
Nov 25, 2006
| confused, well i think i get it, kinda, maybe cuz the #four has4 lettters in it am i right?????? |
clarinet1293
Dec 12, 2006
| This was creative! I liked it! |
smarty008
Jan 01, 2007
| 0 as in zero works too |
starrychelx
Feb 13, 2007
| I thought it was 9... there are 9 letters in "the answer"... but, then again, I'm starting to realize I'm not so good at most of these! ;) |
bgil7604
Feb 23, 2007
| The answer/ question made no sense whatsoever. First i counted the letters in the question (47), and then got 11 from counting that answer. DON"T MAKE THESE QUESTIONS SO VAGUE!  |
Madelulabelle
Mar 14, 2007
| That was really easy once I thought it out. Great teaser, keep them coming!
And you silly people commenting on this, 4 is the only plausible answer. |
nerdyiscool
Apr 30, 2007
| No duh, it's 25...
T H E A N S W E R T O T H I S
Q U E S T I O N
(Again, a prime example of nerfhead logic! Tell me if i counted it wrong!) |
nerdyiscool
Apr 30, 2007
| Oh, I get it now! D'oh!
(Thank you, slow reaction time.) |
ICUB42
May 03, 2007
| I think this is very tricky. But I actually had a better time reading all of the crazy comments. |
ChRmD1
May 12, 2007
| Aww I thought I was being smart saying 23! Dang... |
vlerma
May 12, 2007
| Maybe cruiser is no longer on the site as so many of you have asked for an explanation of this teaser. Folks what he was asking was the number of letters in the answer to the question. The question was tricky sure, but if you say numbers from one to whatever the only one that has the same number of letters as the word is just what he said it was. One has three letters, two has three letters, three has five letters, four has four letters, five has four letters, six only has three and etc. Sorry to give away the answer to everyone else, but if those of you who questioned this one ever come back to read it again, this was how the "answer" was arrived at. |
vlerma
May 12, 2007
| Sorry for the dp, but zero does not work because it has four letters, not 0. |
amn22492
May 18, 2007
| very clever! it took me a little while to get that one |
saltydavid
Jul 13, 2007
| I thought "the answer to this question" has 23. Oh well. |
javlad27
Aug 05, 2007
| I thought it was 23. I don't get it. |
qwertyu63
Oct 02, 2007
| It means in the anwser. |
savannahlz9
Nov 16, 2007
| I don't get it |
amybookbug
Mar 29, 2008
| huh????? i don't get it... |
pn_16
May 09, 2008
| I counted all the letters in:
"the answer to this question"  |
chakki
May 27, 2008
| ITS WAS REALLY CONFUSING |
(user deleted)
Jun 04, 2008
| 20--you only count the letters that are "answer to this question". |
(user deleted)
Jun 05, 2008
| I need someone to help me....the answer--I don't understand the explanation. Please reword if you understand. |
(user deleted)
Jul 31, 2008
| Depending on the language.
in English: four
in German: vier
in Italian: tre
in Russian: три or одиннадцать |
gottalovetacsc
Sep 06, 2008
| ugh.... thats confusing lol |
Cindzey
Nov 06, 2008
| Ha! I got that right ;] |
Woon1957
May 30, 2009
| I get it. Sorta. I don't know how to explain it right...The answer to the question is a number, right?And the number has to have the same number of letters the number itself has right? So four, four letters is the answer. Hope this helps. |
RomanG417
Jul 28, 2009
| Possible answers:
0.
Four.
There are forty-nine letters in the answer to this question.
There are seventeen.
There are twenty-five letters. |
Lord_Hawk
Sep 22, 2009
| Four is the one I got, but you shouldn't rant on about it changing the number of letters. |
thebrain789
Jul 01, 2010
| This is an old Lenny Conundrum from Neopets. The answer was four or zero. |
Marijah
Jul 08, 2010
| everyone keeps trying to explain about the whole "four" thing... yet no one has answered what on earth that answer has ANYTHING of relevance to do with the question whatsoever. |
racoonieboy
Jul 16, 2010
| Four has four letters. Get it? |
cutieluck
Sep 28, 2010
| i counted twenty three >: P hmm it wuz okay |
Subtox
Nov 17, 2010
| Hopefully this will help anyone who is still stumped.
Notice that the question starts with the phrase "How many", which tells you that the answer will be a number. Any question starting with "How many" will have a number as its answer.
So the idea is to answer with a number, and the only way to be correct is to say a number that has an amount of letters in its name that is the same as the quantity the number itself represents.
For example, say you thought the answer was 1. That's O-N-E, which has three letters. If you say "One" as your answer, this answer has THREE letters in it, which contradicts itself. So the answer can't be "One". Next try "Two": T-W-O, which is a three-letter answer, leading to the same dilemma. Next try "Three": T-H-R-E-E, which has five letters, still no good.
Now try "Four": F-O-U-R. This is a four-letter word. So if your answer is "Four", your answer has four letters. This is correct because the number of letters in the answer, and the quantity the answer denotes, don't contradict each other.
This teaser reminds me of Escher's sketch of two hands drawing each other. One depends on the other. It's sort of a paradox in that way, but in this case it's possible! Very clever. IMO, more of a logic teaser than a trick. |
ka-ching
Jan 29, 2011
| Haha! I guessed 23 as well. But "four" was clever. That was fun. |
BookwormAnG
Jun 02, 2011
| Confusing at first but very smart teaser |
aishali22
Dec 31, 2011
| i'm confused where did four come from |
i_gilman_hj
May 14, 2012
| How about 1,000,000,000. O-N-E-B-I-L-L-I-O-N. 10 letters and digits |
