Updated 12 June 2020 at 18:22 IST
Are one of those people who can't resist solving a puzzle, riddle, or quiz as soon as you receive them on your WhatsApp, Twitter or Facebook? The excess of free time in these quarantine days has led people to resort to various online puzzles, quizzes, and riddles to brush up their skills. Nowadays, you can find many social media platforms flooded with such fun games and riddles that will keep you away from boredom for a long time. Check out one such riddle that has led people to scratch their heads. The riddle is called as "Sam and Sarah saw seven sharks riddle". Have you heard about this riddle before? Check out the answer.
This riddle asks the following:
Sarah and Sam saw seven sharks. How many ‘S’ are in the sentence?
Read the sentence once more, just to be sure!
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The answer is 1.
The question asks you to count the number of ‘S’ in the sentence, and there is only 1 'S' in the word 'sentence'. So while you may be fixated on counting the letters ‘S’ in the whole riddle, you only needed to focus about finding the ‘S’ in the actual word ‘sentence’.
Other answers: Some people also say that there are 7 'S' in the whole sentence.
While others also say that they are 2 'S' in the sentence, as the rest of the 'S' are in lower case but the 'S' of Sam and Sarah are in upper case, which was basically what the question asked to count.
Riddle 1: Short (Add 'er' and it becomes 'shorter')
Riddle 2: Window
Riddle 3: Counterfeit money
Riddle 4: A stamp
Riddle 5: L8 (When you turn the numbers upside down, they could be counted backwards from 91. So the number 87 would only be formed when you write L8 normally).
Published 12 June 2020 at 18:21 IST