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I NEED MORE ABOUT BOS WELL - solve a riddle part two

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Bamchicabaawaa · 04/12/2018 21:30

I have just read forty pages of thread and it’s almost full! Let us congregate here for answers!

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Drogosnextwife · 05/12/2018 19:09

Someone could easily try and explain it or say what they came up with even if it "makes it wrong". Even that is bullshit because that would mean that the answer changes all the time and no one would have the correct answer ever. Even if they thought they did.

BloodyUseless · 05/12/2018 19:09

Well there aren't rules as such but there seem to be so many things that change except for the fact that you can't reveal the answer. I'm just trying to come up with an answer within that framework. Not taking part is an equally elegant "solution".

MummyVaughan13 · 05/12/2018 19:10

Where is the OP? Gone back under the bridge

BoneyBackJefferson · 05/12/2018 19:11

Well there aren't rules as such but there seem to be so many things that change except for the fact that you can't reveal the answer.

smug.

Dairyqueen2 · 05/12/2018 19:12

This is making me unreasonably angry Angry

BloodyUseless · 05/12/2018 19:12

Sorry are we trying to solve this or are we just slinging insults now?

Drogosnextwife · 05/12/2018 19:14

Nope sorry bloodyusless, that makes no sense.
Find it hard to believe that only a select few people have managed to get it, out of everyone on this thread, and everyone they have told.

BoneyBackJefferson · 05/12/2018 19:15

BloodyUseless

You have your solution, I have mine. the more you state that "you can't reveal the answer." just makes me believe more in my answer and less in any belief that you actually have one

dogzdinner · 05/12/2018 19:17

Do you solve it by admitting that you don't get it? So you can't reveal the answer because you don't know what it is

Puddingmama2017 · 05/12/2018 19:26

Just going to leave this here

I NEED MORE ABOUT BOS WELL - solve a riddle part two
berryhead2013 · 05/12/2018 19:26

I have sent this my friends how do I link this post so they can see it
None of them had any idea either 😂😂

ScrambledSmegs · 05/12/2018 19:32

I totally know the answer to that, Puddingmama2017

TigerDragonMonkey · 05/12/2018 19:41

I have a new theory. If you ask someone else to solve the riddle for you in desperation, you now ‘get it’. And they can only ‘get it’ by passing it on, hence why you can never be told the answer. If you know, you’ll never ask for help. It’s less of a riddle and more of a virus Grin.

OhLookHeKickedTheBall · 05/12/2018 19:43

I know that too pudding but I can't tell you the answer Wink

DiseasesOfTheSheep · 05/12/2018 19:44

I was just about to post that this seems increasingly like a quantum superimposition problem - like Schroedinger's cat... But someone beat me to it. Damnable logical paradoxes.

AnotherOneBitesTheDust · 05/12/2018 19:45

I categorically hate you all and I wish I had never read this thread 😂 I miss my old life from a few hours ago. The one where none of this existed in my little happy bubble.

BlockRockinBeats · 05/12/2018 19:45

Right, I am having one last stab at this before my head explodes.

The answer to this riddle is...there is no correct answer. If I leave it there, this statement remains true. End of riddle.

However, if I reply to the people on this thread who are asking for the answer... 'There is no correct answer', I myself have now given the correct answer (when I originally said there was NO correct answer). By stating that 'there is NO correct answer' as THE correct answer, I have made my original statement no longer true (because I have now given out the correct answer when I said there was no correct answer).

Lordy, I am tying myself in knots here!

By saying 'there is no correct answer' as the answer, you are actually giving the correct answer, therefore the statement 'there is no correct answer' becomes untrue as you have provided now the answer.

Does that make sense?

@Porcupine and @BloodyUseless am I there yet????

BoswellandAndAndyForshort · 05/12/2018 19:47

Wasn’t there a land at the top of the faraway tree that had a school were the pupils had to answer impossible nonsense riddles. Bet the orginal-OP is the headmistress!

Runnynosehunny · 05/12/2018 19:48

Did Boswell have anything in his pocketses? Did he disappear at the top of the steps?

boringlyboring · 05/12/2018 19:53

Who is Derek? And where did the ‘the correct answer becomes incorrect’ come from?

Does BloodyUseless know the answer?

Anyone?

BoswellandAndAndyForshort · 05/12/2018 19:55

If a train runs at six miles an hour and has to pass under four tunnels, put down what the guard’s mother is likely to have for dinner on Sundays?

BloodyUseless · 05/12/2018 19:56

@BlockRockinBeats

Haha I reckon that's a good a stab as anyone could make to solving this abomination.

BoswellandAndAndyForshort · 05/12/2018 19:56

If you take away three caterpillars from one bush, how many gooseberries will there be left?

IamAporcupine · 05/12/2018 19:57

BlockRockinBeats
I'd say yes, and (I guess) bloodyuseless will avoid answering Grin

(as I said, I am still debating if it has to be 'there is no correct answer' or if 'there is no answer' works too - I think it does, as it also becomes untrue once you reveal it as an answer)

Runnynosehunny · 05/12/2018 19:58

Everyone is saying there's no real answer etc, but secretly still trying desperately to solve it!

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