Mother, Daughter, Grandmother?

E

D'oh.

Brain no workee before morning coffee.

C

"I" could also be Teresa's son-in-law.

I agree with "C", but so often these word game riddles have to be precisely repeated.

I'm with you on that....

do you have a tech or engineering question?

Fredski...it could be technical if reduced to a formula.

Me = M, Teresa = T, Daughter = D, Wife = W

T/D = M/D or W/D

T = M or W.

Teresa is my wife or me. But if wife then I am the 'son-in-law' of Teresa.

But as 'son-in-law' is not an option (deliberately..??)

Then I am Teresa and the answer is E.

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I am having trouble with C = Daughter - where this has been given as the answer.

Your "T/D = M/D or W/D" is wrong.

"my daughter's mother" is either M or W but is also "Teresa's daughter", so the only left option is M (answer C).

Alex Roman.

You are dead right. Clumsy typo at the outset. 'T' actually should have been Td for Teresa's daughter.... but did not realise my mistake when I typed it in CR4...then drew the wrong conclusion....and worst, failed to spot it when the answer was staring me in the face.

My wife got it straight away. I've already posted a correction.

Thanks for your trouble.

... I am having trouble with C = Daughter....

Which is not surprising - this is because the formula is wrong.

My wife, who is not an engineer, and without a formula, says it is Daughter = C

Who needs engineers! - we have our limitations.

Let's call Teresa's daughter Mary, in generational order left to right:

Teresa > Mary

Your daughter, whom we'll call Sue, in generational order from left to right:

You > Sue

Teresa's Daughter (Mary) is your daughter's (Sue) mother, thus:

Mary > Sue

So...

Teresa > Mary/You > Sue

Thus, you are "C" Teresa's Daughter, and Teresa's Daughter (Mary) is your sister; based on the options provided.

I think she is that weird lady who lives across the street that has too many cats.

Or she could be one of the cats.

Or maybe I'm the weird lady with the cats too.

I could be one of the cats as well but my opposable thumbs seem to disagree with that logic.

Saw this on Facebook today. I agree with others here - C

Along the line of Rixter and Javahead:

C or C's husband or C's partner (being politically correct).

C. Mother

I love all of the comments and answer I have seen so far. The daughter mentioned that it came from facebook as well and given by a substitute teacher to discuss during a science class.

Definitely C

A poetic variation for you to ponder:-

"Brothers and sisters have I none - Yet that man's father is my father's son".

Who is he?

That's the one I remember seeing before but I don't remember the answer.

Cousin

It's your son. It could be a nephew except "brothers or sisters I have none" rules that out.

1. Brothers and sisters I have none
2. Yet that man's father
3. is my fathers son

By (1), "I" am an only child, therefore the only one who can be described in (3) is "Me."

So (2&3) become "That man's father is me," So "that man" is "My son."

"He" is that man's son. Also, the grandson. (You have a son, a father, and the father's father.)

So you have no answer within the bounds of the problem (as expressed by the OP)?

To be fair he was replying to the problem posed in post 14.

"Brothers and sisters have I none, but, that man's father is my fathers son."

Clearly "my fathers son" is me, and therefore "that man" is my son.

Point well made - maybe I jumped a bit too hard, or too soon, or both.

Tahrhesa yo mama....

A prisoner is in jail. There are two doors, one leads to freedom one leads to death. There is a guard at each door. One guard always tells the truth, the other always tells lies. The prisoner is allowed one question to either of the guards.
What is the one question that will take him to freedom.?

I guess that I would ask either one of the guards the following question.

"If I ask the other guard which is the safe door, which one would he indicate"?

My reasoning:-

If he happens to be the truthful one he will tell me that the other guard will send me to the wrong door (let's say door A) and death.

If he happens to be the liar he will tell me that the other guard will send me to door A whereas he would in fact have sent me to door B.

In either case the answer would be the opposite door to the one indicated.

A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has the most?

An atomic clock?

Moving parts?

Other than at a sub-atomic movement level of say a Caesium clock, the most obvious answer would be an hour glass, but considering that there are sand timers that go out to at least 4 hours and so, presumably, would have more grains of sand in them, I would settle for sand timer as a safer bet.

'Which door would my wife take?'

...popular conundrum...there's more than one question - but all along similar lines.

Ask either guard. "does the guard to freedom tell the truth?"

Take the 'yes' door.

At least four possibilities:

C. Daughter

F. Teresa's son in law

G. Teresa's baby daddy

H. Holy spirit of future religion developed around Teresa's need to come up with a story that allows for her to be both pregnant/then mother, yet still a virgin.

C is the correct answer.

Here's another good one:

It is well known that surgeons are not allowed to operate on immediate family, as the emotional bonds will impair judgement. On this particular day, a boy was wheeled into the emergency room, and the attending physician took on look and said, "I cannot work on this patient, he is my son." How could this be if the doctor was not the boy's father?

The surgeon must be the boy's mother.

Yes.

That's an older-newish one, meant to challenge gender stereotypes.

It's becoming less relevant as a brain-teaser, and that's a good thing.

Yes ....gender assumptions confuse the thought processes.

The tall tramp was the short tramp's father, but the short tramp was not the tall tramp's son.

How??

Short tramp must of had a tramp stamp!

That one does not work as well as it did 50 years ago - stereotypes change.

HUSBAND. (unless he's being a bad boy)

jt
For his birthday, little Joseph asked for a 10-speed bicycle.
His father said, 'Son, we'd give you one, but the mortgage on this house is £280,000 and your mother just lost her job. There's no way we can afford it.'
The next day the father saw little Joseph heading out the front door with a suitcase. So he asked, 'Son, where are you going?'
Little Joseph told him; 'I was walking past your room last night and heard you telling mom you were pulling out. Then I heard her tell you to wait because she was coming too. And I'll be damned if I'm staying here by myself with a £280,000 mortgage and no bike!

Actually didn't little Joseph say he wanted an Encyclopædia Britannica - and his dad said 'No, we can't afford it, you walk to school like I had to...'

Given the choices I say E and here's why.

If Tcmtechs daughter (Iris) is my daughters Dad (Who is me Tcmtech) who am I to Tcmtech?

E. I am Tcmtech. (Talking about myself in both first second and third person references all in one sentence.)

Answer is definitely C.

The person asking the question is Theresa's daughter, and she is the mother of her daughter.

"If Teresa's daughter is ME, and I am my daughter's mother, who am I to Teresa?

Answer: You are Teresa's daughter and the mother of your own daughter.

I think this way. (which is not always right )

If T's (her) daughter is my (his) daughter's mother, this implies but not specifically give any relationship, as in (what am I) to T. (e.g. lover?) However:

Assuming there is a normal relationship (for the question to have meaning with a normal heterosexual relationship and, as T is a name associated with a female) it would be reasonable to assume the other relation to the daughter is male.
i.e. her father. Which would make his relationship to T (her mother) that of the husband. (ignoring all other implications, lover, etc.)

The fact this answer (Husband) is not offered as a choice may be mis-direction?
Simply: If they give you lined paper, write the other way. Yes?

jt.

Went into the kitchen this morning and found my girlfriend face down and not breathing. I panicked. I didnt know what to do! ..... Then I remembered

McDonalds do breakfast til 10.30.

GA (for the joke)

Thank you Randall, much appreciated. jt.

The seven dwarfs go to the Vatican, and because they are the seven dwarfs, they are immediately ushered in to see the Pope.Grumpy leads the pack.'Grumpy, my son,' says the Pope, 'What can I do for you?'

Grumpy asks, 'Excuse me your Excellency, but are there any dwarf nuns in Rome ?'

The Pope wrinkles his brow at the odd question, thinks for a moment and answers, 'No, Grumpy, there are no dwarf nuns in Rome.'

In the background, a few of the dwarfs start giggling.

Grumpy turns around and glares at them, silencing them.

Grumpy turns back, 'Your Worship, are there any dwarf nuns in all of Europe?'

The Pope, puzzled now, again thinks for a moment and then answers, 'No, Grumpy, there are no dwarf nuns in Europe .'

This time, all of the other dwarfs burst into laughter. Once again, Grumpy turns around and silences them with an angry glare.

Grumpy turns back and says, 'Mr.. Pope! Are there ANY dwarf nuns anywhere in the world?'

The Pope, really confused by the questions says, 'I'm sorry, my son, there are no dwarf nuns anywhere in the world.'

The other dwarfs collapse into a heap, rolling and laughing, pounding the floor, tears rolling down their cheeks, as they begin chanting......

"Grumpy done a penguin!" "Grumpy done a penguin!"

Apologies for being dim......I just don't get it......!

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But I've heard the one where SW and the 7D'd went to a Chinese restaurant and in general chat wondered if there were any Jews in China. Grumpy asked the Chinese waiter if they had any Chinese Jews?

The waiter said "No - we only have orange juice and tomato juice..."

I drew this to help clarify the problem (in my mind. Originally a back-of-envelope scribble):

Each arrow represents a mother-daughter relationship.

Given that (I) Only females are considered (the only possible answers A to E are female), and (II) a daughter may only have one mother (issues of surrogacy, egg donation, adoption etc. are disallowed), then "ME" and "TERESA'S DAUGHTER" must be the same person.