Prisioner Riddle

Grant, we got an email from a guy named Robert who lives in Eurifereburg of Brooklyn.

Mm—

And he wrote us with a riddle that he said that he solved in seventh grade.

And he wrote the riddle out, and I was going crazy because, number one, he solved it in seventh grade, and I couldn’t think of the answer at all.

So I had to write him and ask him for it.

Here it is. See if you can figure it out on the fly.

There was a man in jail who was being watched by a lone warden. Someone came to visit one day and then left shortly thereafter.

This was the exchange between the warden and the prisoner.

The warden said, who was that visitor?

And the prisoner said, brothers and sisters have I none, but this man’s father is my father’s son.

Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man’s father is my father’s son.

That was his grandfather.

I don’t know.

I have no idea.

Who was it?

The answer is the prisoner’s son.

The prisoner says this man’s father.

Oh, of course.

There we go.

Yeah.

I still don’t quite get it, but that’s the answer.

Okay.

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