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Horses and Donkeys
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Puzzle ID: #16528
Submitted By: BulletThruDaHed Corrected By: Winner4600
Submitted By: BulletThruDaHed Corrected By: Winner4600
Mystery
Mystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.Mystery
One day, a farmer decides to put his five donkeys and five horses together in the same field to save space. He moves the animals into the empty field and leaves them with plenty of grass and hay to eat and water to drink.
One year later, he decides to move the animals back into separate fields; but after moving the horses and the donkeys out, he finds that as well as himself, there is still one animal left in the field. During the year, no animal moved in or out of the field, so what is this extra animal and where has it come from?
One year later, he decides to move the animals back into separate fields; but after moving the horses and the donkeys out, he finds that as well as himself, there is still one animal left in the field. During the year, no animal moved in or out of the field, so what is this extra animal and where has it come from?
Answer
The animal is a mule - the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.Hide Answer Show Answer
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that was super easy
What's to say the remaining animal wasn't the offspring of a male horse and female horse, or of a male and female donkey (jack and jennet, respectively), or of a male horse and female donkey (which would result in a hinny rather than a mule)?
what if there were only males or only females all over the place? then there would be no offspring at all, right? the man would be the animal, i guess?
good one....people would not think of a mule or hinny.....they are not very common. sure, it teased me a bit.
good one....people would not think of a mule or hinny.....they are not very common. sure, it teased me a bit.
the where as it come from question is , so easy my child got it, as for what the other animal was, that isn't a question that has one obvious answer, as there are 4 possibilities. to say there is another animal, that is neither a horse nor a donkey, would have at least narrowed it down to 2.
the teaser says that he moves all the donkeys and horses out of the field so only 2 possibilities remain
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It was really easy... but otherwise it was fine
somebody needs some hooked on phonics
Could have been a horse or donkey also. Nothing stipulated the animals were of any particular sex.
It could also be a squirel, or the guy's moma, or even a fly... may be an alien that was making sexual experiments with animals... there are not enough clues.
tOo EaSy!
I thought it was pretty easy personally, but clever just the same. Bravo
Got that one! Never heard of a hinny though. Thanx readers.
I thought the farmer had 10 fields in total.
After puting them all in the same field he had 9 empty fields.
When he put the animals back in the 9 empty fields there was 1 left in the field they were sharing
After puting them all in the same field he had 9 empty fields.
When he put the animals back in the 9 empty fields there was 1 left in the field they were sharing
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got it
got it
Why couldn't it be a baby horse?
My first thought was "It must be a honkey!" lol I didn't think of mule.
WOW!!! That was so easy!!! PLz put something more challenging in there!!
i liked it but there were too many possiblities for the answer, it could have said something about how it wasn't another horse or donkey
easy peasy!
I got mule right off the bat, didn't occur to me that it could be a hinny, and even as I got mule I held out the possiblity of just a baby horse.
If this were in trick I would have expected it to be maybe a fallen bird, or suirrel or something.
If this were in trick I would have expected it to be maybe a fallen bird, or suirrel or something.
Way too easy.
For everyone saying there are too many possibilities — it says the extra animal was discovered *after* he moved all the horses and donkeys out. Any horse or donkey foals would be part of that group.
However, it does seem to imply that he didn't find any extra other than the mule, which is confusing. And as others have pointed out, it could have been a hinny.
For everyone saying there are too many possibilities — it says the extra animal was discovered *after* he moved all the horses and donkeys out. Any horse or donkey foals would be part of that group.
However, it does seem to imply that he didn't find any extra other than the mule, which is confusing. And as others have pointed out, it could have been a hinny.
He left ten valuable animals in a field for a whole year and didn't check on them once? I don't know any farmers that trusting and/or optimistic.
This needs adjusting - the puzzle text doesn't give the sexes so it could be the offspring of two horses or two donkeys. Somehow indicate that all of each type are one sex without being too obvious, which would give the game away.
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