Those who watched the movie Interns probably laughed merrily at the slow-witted Phil, when the American was surprised at Russian riddles. Rather, guesses on them. Why can “only one color” be winter and summer, when there is blood, a fence, eyes, and much more? But he had not yet heard the riddle "Without a hand, without a hatchet a hut was built." I wonder what answer Phil would find for her.
Riddles for children in verses
Meanwhile, in addition to the riddle “Without a hand, without a hatchet, a hut was built”, to which you can pick up a large number of answers, there are many others that are no less interesting. For instance:
- Behind the tree there is a tubercle, an insect town. (Anthill)
- A wooden path leads upward, but if the foot between the steps falls, then the walker will certainly fall. (Stairs)
- I have a roof with a handle, look!
It will save us from the rain, come!
The rain will end - I'll lay the roof,
Instead of a cane, I have it. (Umbrella)
These Russian puzzles give a fairly transparent description of the subject, which serves as the correct answer. And often in poetic lines the answer is hidden at the very end, prompted by a rhyme. For instance:
"Clap!" - from candy, like a cannon
You hear the shot, because it is ... (cracker).
One riddle, and the answer is the sea
But let us return to our ambiguous riddle, which sounds like this: "Without a hand, without a hatchet, a hut was built." An interesting fact is that even people who grew up in Russia do not always answer it correctly.
For example, some consider it a cucumber or melon. And in principle, they can be understood if we recall the riddle about the chamber, which is full of people, but there are no doors or windows. If you argue from this position, knowing that this "maid" means a vegetable, then it is quite possible to take the same cucumber (or melon) and as an answer to our riddle. After all, the maid’s room, which, in fact, is a room in a hut, was “built” without a hatchet - the plant grew and produced fruit on its own.
Others are inclined to believe that this is a cave, anthill, a beaver's hut 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.
Correct answer
However, the “nest” is the correct answer. Why is it a nest, and not a hole or anthill, because a parallel can be traced in the logical chain of answers? Yes, simply because it was decided by the one who composed this riddle! Although it can be argued, after all, modern nests for poultry are built by people, using not only a tree and an ax, but also casting them from plastic. But the anthill, it seems, people themselves did not try to build ... And even if they tried, then they certainly did not take an ax to help themselves.
As if to mock this state of affairs, today witty writers come up with their riddles with answers that are difficult to understand. “Slippery, wet, hanging on the wall,” such an eccentric thinks. And after everyone “surrenders”, having sorted through a mass of various objects, they proudly declare that this is a herring. To the indignant question why the herring hangs on the wall, the merry fellow counters: “My herring, wherever I want, I will hang there!”
So in this riddle: you can pick up not one guess, but only one will be recognized as correct - the nest. And why exactly the nest is accepted as the only true answer - this is already a question for who was its author.