A couple weeks ago I posed the riddle:
たぬきの宝箱には何が入っている？
Kudos to Rene for answering correctly!
And that answer is (read no further if you want to hazard a guess first)...
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何もない。
Nothing.
The riddle asks us "What's inside the tanuki's treasure box?"
In this particular riddle, you may read たぬき as 「た」ぬき, which means "without 'ta'." Specifically, what's inside a 宝箱 (たからばこ) minus the 「た」.
When you take away 「た」, the word changes to 空箱 (からばこ), which means "empty box." Thus there's nothing inside!
Wow, that's a tricky one!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think so. Think I'll ease back a little for the next one.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, that one was very hard to solve. I was going to ask my girlfriend if she had an idea, but unfortunately I couldn't find the time. I'll probably ask her any though, just to see what answer she can come up with. ;)
ReplyDeleteHaf - Heh...I'll have to see if I can stump her. =)
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