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He was just asking. Alice chides him with, "I think you might do something better with the time than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers. Take that you upstart mathematics punks! Get a job! The unanswered riddle, which many people were exposed to in their formative years, got under people's skin. In their attempt to adequately extricate it, they've come up with answers.

A satisfying, but meta, answer is, "Poe wrote on both," given by puzzle enthusiast Sam Lloyd. More in the spirit of the nonsense genre, Aldous Huxley ventured, "Because there is a 'b' in both and an 'n' in neither.

The unanswerable riddle has been answered, though, and has been answered for many years. Lewis Carroll himself wrote the answer, after being badgered by people nonstop since the book's original publication.

He said that, in the original book, there was no answer. It was meant to be unsolvable. Lewis Carroll offered this answer to the riddle in an updated version: "Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!

The Selfies Winners Announced. Posted on December 15, Tweet. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Service Privacy Policy. When Alice asks about why they are wasting their time with riddles which have no answer, she's really asking a larger question about adults. Carroll's pun was unfortunately lost to the red pen of a proofreader, confusing the issue of the riddle even further. Saying it aloud might make it clearer.

The answer to the question of is largely up to you.