The answer is a human. Walking on four legs represents a human as a baby when you crawl on your hands and knees, two legs is a human as an adult and three legs is a human as an elder (both of your legs and a walking stick). -rolls eyes and sighs- everyone knows this riddle!!!
What came first. The egg or the Hen. What climbs mountain with four legs but comes down on three legs.
The "riddle of the Sphinx" is: What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the middle of the day, and three at night?
The riddle of the Sphinx which goes as follows:What goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?Oedipus was able to answer the question correctly: Man.
That would be a tripod. Tripods have 3 legs and are made to stay in one place.
The riddle of the sphinx is: what walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, and3 in the evening? The answer is MAN - Walks on 4 legs as an infant 2 legs as an adult and 2 legs + a cane in the elderly years.
What came first. The egg or the Hen. What climbs mountain with four legs but comes down on three legs.
The "riddle of the Sphinx" is: What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the middle of the day, and three at night?
What walks on three legs in the afternoon? Answer: Man walks on 4 legs in morning, as in a baby crawling, two legs in afternoon, as adult, and three at night, as a man with a cane
The riddle of the Sphinx which goes as follows:What goes on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?Oedipus was able to answer the question correctly: Man.
There is no riddle of the Sphinx, the question/ riddle is what walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at midday and three legs in the evening. the answer would be a human. as in the morning of someones life they are a baby or toddler, so they would crawl on four legs, at midday it refers to an adult ( who walks on two legs ) while in the evening the human is old and uses a walking stick ( equals three legs ) . ------- There IS a riddle of the Sphinx. Created in Oedipus when Oedipus needed to get to Thebes, he came across a Sphinx blocking his path who asked him this riddle. He gave the correct answer and went on.
"What has four legs but can't walk?" is the only riddle with table as an answer.
That would be a tripod. Tripods have 3 legs and are made to stay in one place.
the riddle of the sphinx from the greek play edipus rex is this: when i am young i move with four legs when i grow older i move on two when i get older yet i move on three what am i? answer: man
The riddle of the sphinx is What walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening?
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No it is not. The above riddle is the Riddle of the Sphinx. In Greek Mythology a sphinx would sit and ask every traveler that passed this riddle. If they could answer it the sphinx would destroy itself, but if they got it wrong, the sphinx would kill them.
The riddle of the sphinx is: what walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, and3 in the evening? The answer is MAN - Walks on 4 legs as an infant 2 legs as an adult and 2 legs + a cane in the elderly years.