Giraffe riddle answer

[Pacfanweb]

I just read a riddle on Facebook:

"I've changed my profile to a giraffe. I tried to answer a riddle and got it wrong. Try the great giraffe challenge!The deal is I give you a riddle. You get it right you get to keep your profile pic. You get it wrong and you change your profile pic to a Giraffe for the next 3 days. MESSAGE ME ONLY SO YOU DON'T GIVE OUT THE ANSWER.Here is the riddle: 3:00 am, the doorbell rings and you wake up. Unexpected visitors, It's your parents and they are there for breakfast. You have strawberry jam, honey, wine, bread and cheese. What is the first thing you open?Remember... message me only. If you get it right I'll post your name here. If you get it wrong change your profile pic."

I answered the door which is wrong for some reason. The correct answer is eyes. This is a poorly worded riddle to me.

1. I am awake at 3 AM, so mine would be the door.

2. The question is ,"What is the first thing you open?" The word needed for the answer to be eyes would be opened instead of open. If the riddle said opened, then eyes would be correct.

Am I looking at this wrong?

Yes, you're looking at it wrong, because the riddle says "the doorbell rings, and YOU WAKE UP". It's not talking about what you might really be doing at that time.

 

[Dean Yeager]

The first thing I'd open would be my ass to let out a fart.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Yes, you're looking at it wrong, because the riddle says "the doorbell rings, and YOU WAKE UP". It's not talking about what you might really be doing at that time.

You left out the events after that that have already happened before you choose what to open.

> 3:00 am, the doorbell rings and you wake up. Unexpected visitors, It's your parents and they are there for breakfast.

If the point in time was when "YOU WAKE UP" then you would not yet know that it is your parents or that they want breakfast. That is a later point in time, long after you opened your eyes.

"The door" is a clever and valid answer because you would probably look through the peephole before opening your door. You would have already opened your eyes to walk to the door and see who is on the other side.

 

[slayer202]

Before I even opened my eyes I'd open the drawer where I keep my gun. Nobody rings my bell at 3am and lives.

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LOL

 

[KHeaven]

If someone wakes me up by a knock on the door then my eyes are already open.

 

[quikah]

You left out the events after that that have already happened before you choose what to open.

> 3:00 am, the doorbell rings and you wake up. Unexpected visitors, It's your parents and they are there for breakfast.

If the point in time was when "YOU WAKE UP" then you would not yet know that it is your parents or that they want breakfast. That is a later point in time, long after you opened your eyes.

"The door" is a clever and valid answer because you would probably look through the peephole before opening your door. You would have already opened your eyes to walk to the door and see who is on the other side.

how do you know they want breakfast if you haven't opened the door yet to talk to them?

 

[Pacfanweb]

You left out the events after that that have already happened before you choose what to open.

> 3:00 am, the doorbell rings and you wake up. Unexpected visitors, It's your parents and they are there for breakfast.

If the point in time was when "YOU WAKE UP" then you would not yet know that it is your parents or that they want breakfast. That is a later point in time, long after you opened your eyes.

"The door" is a clever and valid answer because you would probably look through the peephole before opening your door. You would have already opened your eyes to walk to the door and see who is on the other side.

But the first thing you actually opened was your eyes, because it states that "you wake up", and the question is "what is the first thing you open".

 

[veri745]

I open my mind...

This riddle is stupid.

 

[DaveSimmons]

how do you know they want breakfast if you haven't opened the door yet to talk to them?

They called the day before to tell you that they would be visiting?

You still wouldn't know it was them at the door instead of a polite axe-wielding maniac until you looked through the peephole, with your already-opened eyes.

Badly written riddle is badly written.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Lot of butt hurt atoters that got a riddle wrong in here

 

[Train]

 

[Schfifty Five]

I just read a riddle on Facebook:

"I've changed my profile to a giraffe. I tried to answer a riddle and got it wrong. Try the great giraffe challenge!The deal is I give you a riddle. You get it right you get to keep your profile pic. You get it wrong and you change your profile pic to a Giraffe for the next 3 days. MESSAGE ME ONLY SO YOU DON'T GIVE OUT THE ANSWER.Here is the riddle: 3:00 am, the doorbell rings and you wake up. Unexpected visitors, It's your parents and they are there for breakfast. You have strawberry jam, honey, wine, bread and cheese. What is the first thing you open?Remember... message me only. If you get it right I'll post your name here. If you get it wrong change your profile pic."

I answered the door which is wrong for some reason. The correct answer is eyes. This is a poorly worded riddle to me.

1. I am awake at 3 AM, so mine would be the door.

2. The question is ,"What is the first thing you open?" The word needed for the answer to be eyes would be opened instead of open. If the riddle said opened, then eyes would be correct.

Am I looking at this wrong?

I'm not grammar expert, but if you wanted to use "opened", you would have to change "is" to "was". Otherwise, it's correct as is.

 

[Printer Bandit]

if a rum and coke cost 55 cents, and the coke is 50 cents more than the rum, how much does the rum cost?

 

[Bubbleawsome]

if a rum and coke cost 55 cents, and the coke is 50 cents more than the rum, how much does the rum cost?

5c?

But you could make a science from this thread. First the ATOT3rs start talking about it, then other members come in and call them butthurt, but agree that it is stupid. I like this thread.

If you really need it.

Spoiler

Stupid riddle

 

[BoomerD]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/29/tech/social-media/facebook-giraffe-riddle/