Amazing riddle my father taught me many years ago.?!
Question:
Amazing riddle my father taught me many years ago.?
O.K. A very poor common country man woos the kings daughter until she falls in love with him. The man goes to the king to ask for his daughters hand in marriage. The king says tomorrow I will have you pick one of my hands. In one will be a piece of paper with the word marriage on it. The other will read death. What you pick is what you get. The man agrees but hears the king through his door tell his advisor that he is going to write death on BOTH pieces of paper. The next day the king DOES write death on both pieces, the man DOES pick a hand - yet he marries the princess...How?
No....he doesn't kill the king. Yes, everyone agrees he picked marriage...
How?
There is a very logical answer to this riddle...
Answers:
He chooses a hand and he immediately eats the paper and asks the king to read aloud the other piece of paper. The guy knows it says death, and everyone knows that only ONE would say death on it, so it is assumed to all that the one that the guy picked HAD to have read marriage.