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A farmer had 26 sick sheep, but one of them died. How many sheep are left?
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26 sheep are left. The farmer died.Hide Answer Show Answer
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This was a harder toungue twister than a teaser he sheepishly commented... try 26 sick sheep fast five times .. it's a killer! Thanks for the twister teaser!
I thought it wold be 26 sick sheep left, because he still has a dead one.
yea...i thought there were still 26...the wording isnt clear that the farmer died
I don't get it. O_o
i dont get how you can get the farmer died out of that one...but i still thought their was 26 sheep left cuz of your wording
i thought 26 also because, a none sick sheep could have died, he had 26 sick sheep
Where do you get the farmer died from???
a farrmer had 26 sick sheep key context words had and a farmer
(farmer) Past tense as in he is not with us or something
Sheep are still sick....
lol now if u want to trick your friends say this to them.
A farmer has 20 sick sheep and one died how many are left?
19 are left when u say it it sound like you are say 26.
thats what i ment to put on my teaser that night i wrote it but brain was asleep. lol
(farmer) Past tense as in he is not with us or something
Sheep are still sick....
lol now if u want to trick your friends say this to them.
A farmer has 20 sick sheep and one died how many are left?
19 are left when u say it it sound like you are say 26.
thats what i ment to put on my teaser that night i wrote it but brain was asleep. lol
could've been worse i suppose
how did the faqrmer die?
He caught sheeping sickness
It can be corrected if you want it that way. (20 sick not 26 sick)
Dont get it.
WHAT EVER didnt make sense but ok i dont get it 0_o
Confusing
Confusing
i didnt get it until i looked at the the comments. thanx sauce!
He still could have any number of well sheep, he just has 26 sick ones still. Well he doesn't anymore because he is dead. So his widow has inherited 26 sick sheep and a large vets bill. unless he wasn't married. in which case his kids who had since moved, one to work in the city the other who had moved abroad would then have to decide what to do about the sick sheep when attending the funeral ( assuming that they hadn't died by this point due to neglect, as they were very sick ) The sickness could by this time have spread to the sheep that he had that were well, so by the time he was put in the ground his whole flock of 1000's could all be sick. I bet he's turning in his grave !!
I knew there were six but the wording was TERRIBLE
thats really weird was the farmer sick aswell of commit suicide coz he had such a sad and lonely life o well pretty average 4 me
Oh well, such are dreams of the every day sheep farmer trick writer.
Geez, I am dense sometimes!!!! I didn't get it till I read the comments!!!! Great teaser once I got it!
Mar 18, 2006
It could also be that we do not know how many sheep he had left. We do not know the number of non-sick sheep he had left.
well.. i did not get it at first so i cleared my brain and i read the teaser again and the comments again and i figured it out!!
i thought that sheeps were sick?
that really is worded terribly......
that dosen't make sense though...
IT HAS POTENTIAL.. HOWEVER THE WORDING COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER.
ok ...
that was good sauce
The wording is pretty bad. This riddle makes no sense whatsoever. Sorry man, but this is just really bad. Better luck next time .
I don't think this teaser is worded very well. There is no way to know that the farmer died from the information given. I don't think the answer to the teaser will change -- it should still be 26, but not because the farmer died. As someone else pointed out, there are 25 sick sheep and 1 dead sheep. Example: I had $100 but I gave you $10. How many dollars are there? Still 100 -- the $90 I have and the $10 you have.
Sheeping sickness?
HA! You crack me up!
HA! You crack me up!
the wording is awful it says 'the farmer had 26 sick sheep one of them died.' that says one of the sheep died. And as for your thing about the farmer had implying he is now dead. If he HAD swenty six sick sheep and one died he now HAS 25 sick sheep.
it would be better if it said "and there was a death"
You said that "had" meant he died. But that is untrue. I HAD 4 great-grandparents, but I am still alive. If he HAD 26 sick sheep and one died he would HAVE 25 sheep. Bad teaser.
This isn't a great teaser and the answer doesn't make sense.
It should be re-worded or removed.
It should be re-worded or removed.
Dec 04, 2006
I thought..one sheep is died since the sheeps are sick..
waaayyyy too easy
There was not enough information in that.
There were 47 sheep left, only 26 were sick
There would be too answers for this though
Mar 13, 2009
This brain teaser makes no sense when read. However if a person were to ask you they would probably say, "a farmer has 20 sick sheep (which sounds like 26 sheep) one dies how many are left?" And since the person would have misheard the question they would likely respond with 25 not realizing what they had truly been asked. this problem is better translated through spoken word.
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