Can you guess the riddle

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Father and son are out and about in town when a dog attacks them both. Both are badly bitten and taken to hospital for medical treatment. The boy must have a minor operation but just as he is about to go under the knife the surgeon says ' I can't operate - that boy is my son!'

Who is the surgeon?

You are facing two doors; if you go through one, you will be completely free, if you go through the other, you will be imprisoned for the rest of your life.
Each door has a doorkeeper; although they are identical twin brothers, one is always truthful, he cannot lie. The other doorkeeper always lies.
What one question can you ask, to choose the door to freedom?

Ooh, that's a good one twosheds. I think I'd ask them to tell me what the other would say if i asked them IYSWIM. So Liarbro knows that if I asked Honestbro "Which is the door to freedom", he would give me the right answer. If he always lies then surely he'd point out the other door - the door to hell. Does that make sense?

Not far off shore a ship stands with a rope ladder hanging over her side. The rope has 10 rungs. The distance between each rung is 12 inches. The lowest rung touches the water. The ocean is calm. Because of the incoming tide, the surface of the water rises 4 inches per hour. How soon will the water cover the third rung from the top rung of the rope ladder?

It wont because the boat will rise with the water.

Exactly, SpitefulMidlifeAnimal; the liar is compelled to lie, the truthful one will truthfully tell you the lie that his brother would tell.

Sorry, pressed too soon; so you ask, "If I asked your brother which was the door to freedom, what would he say?", then choose the other one!

Alphabetical order

The surgeon was once the man’s mother, but that morning had got up and self-ID’d as a man. So you’re all wrong.

Heard this one years ago!

I asked a class of Year 8 students (so 12 turning 13) this riddle, and more of them thought that there were two men (one of them a surgeon!) bringing up a child than thought the ‘she’s his mother!’ answer.

Which I guess is lovely from an LBGT acceptance point of view, but not from a feminist point of view...

Yeah really basic riddle there, surprised people didn't know it OP.

Love a good riddle, one that really gets you thinking!

I’ve never heard this with the “my son” added because it gives the whole thing away. That’s sort of the point of not adding it.

Ok, what about this one. A woman has just married her son. What's her job?

Registrar or minister.

She's a minister of religion, who conducted the marriage ceremony!

Ok, what about this one. A woman has just married her son. What's her job?
either a Priest, Minister, Rabbi or registrar.

His mother? Can women be surgeons then

A similar but slightly different riddle to the two doors one:
You are lost in a forest with two villages. One village has a tribe who always sacrifice strangers who go to their village to their evil god and always tell lies. The other village tribe are kind and friendly and always tell the truth. You don't know what they look like but a tribesman from one of the villages is stood at the fork in the road with a path to each of the two villages. You can ask one question, what do you ask?

One word fills all the blanks.
The ....... surgeon was .../.... to operate because he had ../.....

what is it?

I'm struggling to understand with the /. Do you mean

The blank blank surgeon was blank blank to operate because he had blank blank?

Oops, only one in the beginning

The blank surgeon was blank blank to operate because he had blank blank?

There was a thread with this exact riddle having been asked recently and lots of people then asked their kids/ DH's etc and loads got it wrong. I know because I saw it and asked DH and he didn't get it either! I asked my 4 year old and she just went on a garbled tangent with a million questions about what their names were, why they had an accident, who was driving the bus that ran them over, etc etc until I lost the will and just gave up

Obviously it was a car accident that sent the son and father to the hospital in the other one- which turned into a bus running over for dd!

I've seen this riddle in many forms with various ages and nobody ever gets it. Totally unnecessary snarky replies here

Slash the dots are letters and the / denotes a space.

The notable surgeon was not able to operate because he had no table