Who watched the movie "Interns", probably funlaughed at the slow-witted Phil when the American was surprised at Russian riddles. Or rather, the answers to them. Why "in winter and summer in one color" can only be fir, when the right answer is the blood, and the fence, and the eyes, and much more? But he had not yet heard the riddle "Without arms, without a hatchet, a hut was built." I wonder what answer Phil would have found on her.
Meanwhile, in addition to the riddle "Without hands, without a hatchet, a hut is built", on which a large number of answers can be found, there are many others, no less interesting. For example:
From the rain all of us will save, come!
The rain will end - I'll put the roof down,
Instead of a cane, it's mine. (Umbrella)
These Russian riddles provide a fairly clear description of the subject, which serves as the correct answer. And often in verse lines the answer is hidden at the very end, prompted by rhyme. For example:
"Cotton!" - from candy, as if from a cannon
You'll hear a shot, because it's ... (clapper).
But let us return to our multifaceted puzzle, which reads: "Without hands, without a hatchet, a hut is built." It is interesting that even people who grew up in Russia do not always answer it correctly.
For example, some believe that this is a cucumber ormelon. And in principle, they can be understood, if you recall the riddle about the upper room, which is full of people, but there are no doors or windows. If to argue from this position, knowing that this "chamber" means a vegetable, then it is quite possible to take the same cucumber (or melon) and as an answer to our riddle. After the room, which, in fact, is a room in the hut, "built" without a hatchet - the plant grew and yielded its own.
Others are inclined to believe that this is a cave,an anthill, a hut beaver or a fox hole. And here it is difficult to argue with their logic - all these dwellings for living beings were built without the use of axes and human hands.
However, the correct answer is the "nest".Why is it a nest, not a burrow or an anthill, because in the logical chain of answers there is a parallel? Yes, simply because he decided the one who wrote this riddle! Although you can argue, because modern nests for poultry are built by people, using not only wood and ax, but also casting them from plastic. But an anthill, like, people did not try to build ... And if they tried, then they really did not take an ax to help themselves.
As if in a mockery of this state of affairs,today witty-writers come up with their own puzzles with hard-to-understand answers. "Slippery, wet, hangs on the wall," - such an eccentric thinks. And after all "give up", having gone through a lot of various objects, proudly declare that it is a herring. On an indignant question, why the herring is hanging on the wall, the merry fellow retorts: "My herring, wherever I want, I'll hang it!"
So in this riddle:You can pick up more than one guess, and only one will be recognized as the right one - the nest. And why the nest is accepted as the only true answer - this is already a question for who was its writer.
