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What is the answer to the riddle of the sphinx?
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.
In Oedipus the king what is the riddle of the Sphinx?
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 is the answer for the riddle of the sphnx?
Depends on which one. The most common is: "What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 in the evening, and 3 at night?" , in which the answer is: A person. 4 legs as a baby, 2 as an adult, and 3 meaning an old person with a cane.
Riddle you this and riddle that tell what is what first you walk on 4 legs then on two then on three who am you?
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 was the riddle of the sphnix?
The riddle was 'What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?' The hero Oedipus gave the answer, 'Man,' causing the Sphinx's death. it is correct because babys crawl on all fours we walk on two legs most of our lives and in old age use a walking stick :)
What is the answer to the riddle of the sphinx?
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 is the riddle of the Spinx?
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
What riddle does Oedipus solve?
The riddle he solves was what walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and walks on 3 legs in the evening? The answer was a human. 94 legs while crawling as a baby; 2 legs middle aged; and 3 legs while old (leaning on a cane).
In Oedipus the king what is the riddle of the Sphinx?
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?
Help find the answer to the riddle of the sphinx?
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 is the answer for the riddle of the sphnx?
Depends on which one. The most common is: "What walks on 4 legs in the morning, 2 in the evening, and 3 at night?" , in which the answer is: A person. 4 legs as a baby, 2 as an adult, and 3 meaning an old person with a cane.
What is the rittle of the sphinx?
The riddle of the sphinx is What walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening?
What is the riddle to what creature sometimes walks on four legs sometimes on two sometimes on three and is weakest when it is supported by the most legs?
A human : While he is a child, he walked on 4 legs, Than he is an adult and he is walking on 2 legs but while he is old, he xalked with a cane, on 3 legs.
What is the Greek monster with the famous riddle?
The Sphinx (with the head of a woman, body of a lioness, and serpent as a tail) asked the famous riddle, "What walks with four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening". If a brave man (or woman) answered wrong the Sphinx would kill and eat them. The answer was "man". Why? Because it describes the stages of life. A man crawls when he is a baby, walks as a grown man, and uses a cane when he grows old. ( Hence the 4 legs, 2 legs, then 3 legs.)
What crawls on 4 the 2 then 3?
A baby walks (crawls) with 4 legs + arms, a man walks with 2 legs, and an old man walks with 2 legs and 1 can (3).
What is the most famous puzzle in history?
is the jigsaw puzzle The "riddle of the sphinx" might compete. "What walks on four legs in the morning, on two legs during the day, and on three legs in the evening?"
A biped is an animal that walks on 2 legs so what is an animal that walks on 4 legs called?
Quadruped.
