This man….let’s say this is me…his father (my father) has a son. (Me again) My father’s son (Me again)
It cannot be this man’s son, as the man in question (This man in the this man’s father equation) is the son of my father. The brothers and sisters I have none part merely indicates there are no options for other kids being the answer. My father has a son. Me. My father’s son is me. period. end of story. And truly, my father has one natural born son. So, who is my father’s son? Me.
The question doesn’t ask “Who am I?” The identity of the speaker, or riddler if you will, is of no importance. “The picture must be of his son” makes no sense in relation to the question, as there was no “picture” in the question.
If you study the question as posed you will note the term ‘this man’. Plainly the riddler is referring or pointing to someone. OK it could be a real person but usually in this riddle it refers to a picture. However, the big clue is that the riddle is being spoken by someone and at the end the riddle is asking who is this man rather than who am I. I suppose riddler might be pointing to himself and talking of himself in the third person but that is so unlikely a possibility that we must logically ignore it.
Let’s say we have a photograph/picture (Brit-speak for conceptualized image) of 3 men, grandfather on the left, father center, and grandson on the right.
The father, explaining the relationship to a third party, points to the son and says “this man’s father (himself) is my father’s (grandfather) son.
I value the community we have here to discuss POV’s as we do.
Just to lighten the load as the previously debated riddle always causes arguments. here are a couple of short ones.
A) Two fathers and two sons go to the lake. They each catch a fish. They bring them home and put the three fish on the table. Why are there only three fish?
B) I have a basket with four apples in it. I give an apple each to my four children but there remains one apple in the basket. How can this be?
A) There are three men, just as in the “previously debated riddle”. One is the father of another, who is the father of another. So, one is both a father and a son.
B) I’m just guessing, but I think maybe you started out with an apple in your hand (not in the basket)?
Grandpa was sitting in his chair out front of the house and his two grandsons were just in front of him cleaning their bicycles. He decided to have some fun. Boys, he said, see that tree over yonder. I’ve a dollar here for the winner of a race. You have to ride to that tree, circle round it at and then back here. The winner gets the dollar. But its a special kind of race. The winner is the one who’s bicycle gets here last He sat back and expected it to take all afternoon. But suddenly the two boys whispered to each other then got on the bicycles and rode as fast as they could. The race was over in less than two minutes. Grandpa paid up the dollar. He laughed.because they had outfoxed him.
Sure you guys would know this one but I’ll change it around a bit
This fat guy bumps into this circus clown. There’s 3 walnut shells on a table and he shows a bead under one. He tells the guy if he can pick the one with the bead after the shuffle he gets $100. The kicker is he shuffles them behind a cardboard box so the fat guy can’t see. After the shuffle the clown knows where the bead is. The fat guy then picks one of the 3 shells.
The clown, knowing which of the 3 has the bead under it, takes one of the empty shells off the table and offers the fat guy to switch his choice between the 2 that are left, or stay with what he’s already picked.