Can someone please help me solve this riddle?

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Was put on parents group chat and driving me mad. Person posting says it's so easy that even 'toddlers could work it out if they read it properly'.

Riddle - there are three tarantulas in a round tank and five tarantulas in a rectangle tank. How many legs are in the rectangle tank?

I did the obvious 5x8 = 40 but obviously that's not it...anyone any idea?

well, it silenced Alexa, who is now refusing to talk to me.

The answer is “only one? You’re lucky!”

I'd say either 0 or 64 😂

Surely the author meant rectangular tank. In which case there is one, because you can make the word Tarantula from that?

None because a tank can’t be 2d
So a rectangular prism shaped tank may have legs? Is that reaching? 😂

1
rectangle

Yes @boppityboop it's something to do with the tank I'd say. 4 or 0.

Could it be none, because a rectangle is only a 2D shape so all the spiders have made a run for it as there are no walls?

Think it maybe 8 as they cannot live together and are prone to cannibalism

Unless it's on a stand! :)

Is it something to do with the fact that rectangle isn't an adjective?

I also though as @AntigoneLost did - that a tarantula would have eaten all the others.

If it is that rectangular tanks don't have legs, then the Q is poorly phrased. I also think 'one' on the basis of the word 'leg' being in the phrase 'the rectangle tank', a bit shit.

Do we have an answer yet?

Dear God, thank you for the Boswell thread. I haven't looked at the solution thread yet, but the original one has had me crying with laughter.

Think the answer is none because a rectangle is a two dimensional flat shape with no depth therefore the spiders would escape.

One tank is 'round' (so two-dimensional, ie flat).
The other tank is 'rectangle' (also two-dimensional, ie flat).
So yes, all the spiders will have buggered off by now.
Maybe the riddler meant spherical and cuboid, who knows?

Person posting says it's so easy that even 'toddlers could work it out if they read it properly'.

Well person posting is a stupid arse because most toddlers couldn't read it at all let alone figure out 8 x 8 = 64.

I see someone said the word LEG was in RECTANGLE. The word TEN is in it too. But no S for TEN LEGS

@5foot5

Person posting says it's so easy that even 'toddlers could work it out if they read it properly'.

Well person posting is a stupid arse because most toddlers couldn't read it at all let alone figure out 8 x 8 = 64.

Well your toddler might not know his 8 times tables. But mine could do his 12s by the time he was 9months old....

Not read far so already answered I guess, but I would say one LEG in "rectanGLE tank". Might be right off target but it's the first thing that comes to mind