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The Servant's Wish
Once upon a time, in the West Lake village, a servant lived with his master. After service of about 30 years, his master became ill and was going to die. One day, the master called his servant and asked him for a wish. It could be any wish but just one. The master gave him one day to think about it. The servant became very happy and went to his mother for discussion about the wish. His mother was blind and she asked her son for making a wish for her eye-sight to come back. Then the servant went to his wife. She became very excited and asked for a son as they were childless for many years. After that, the servant went to his father who wanted to be rich and so he asked his son to wish for a lot of money. The next day he went to his master and made one wish through which all the three (mother, father, wife) got what they wanted. You have to tell what the servant asked the master.
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The servant said, "My mother wants to see her grandson swinging on a swing of gold."Hide Answer Show Answer
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or "I want three more wishes"
or u cud ask for 3 more wishes
I thought it was a pretty good teaser! I thought that maybe he could say, "I wish my mother, father, and wife were happy with what they want>" or sumtin.
Apr 30, 2002
That was good. I thought he would have to ask for the money, because there's not a lot his master can do about the lady's eyesight, but you could pay to get medical treatment. Then they could adopt or something.
Nice one, but also very easy
maybe the servent had another brother or sister who had a child and his mother would see that child on the swing therefore his wifes wishes would not be met after all it doesnt say he was an only child
That is a good one!!!!!
I would have thought he would have asked for more wishes
This is a tricky one!
I like it!
I like it!
Better if there were only one possible correct answer. 'Grant all my family their wishes' would be the obvious answer and others would work too.
I thought he would say "I wish my mother could see the grandchild of my rich father."
Good teaser but the answer wernt that great. like what the person b4 me wrote as the answer better
i thought the wife asked to be childLESS forever
A good one, but it assumes that a) he's an only child (because otherwise his mother could have a grandson by one of her other children) and b) that the mother is still married to the father (because otherwise the wish would make the mother rich not the father)!
This was quite a good brain teaser. Obviously, many answers could be used - but I think the one that is given is the best answer. Requires some thinking.
That answer just doesn't appeal to me. HELKATW, your first comment is nitpicking like some others and your second is highly cynical although probably accurate.
I thought he could wish for his mother to be born again. That way she would be able to see once more, his wife would have a baby to care for and his father could sell the story to a newspaper or write a book about it and get rich!
wery clever
it was a god one but it has alot of answers!
Just to pock a little hole, what if those parents are his adoptive parents?
Still a right corker!!
Still a right corker!!
Jun 21, 2002
this one is funny!
He wished for his mother to see her new grand-child playing with the grandfather's money?
He wished for his mother to see her new grand-child playing with the grandfather's money?
Another answer could be: "I wish for my son to be a very rich doctor."
That way his wife could have her child, the son could treat the servant's mother's eyes, and be kind enough to give money to the servant's father.
That way his wife could have her child, the son could treat the servant's mother's eyes, and be kind enough to give money to the servant's father.
That was really good!
Some of my friends from school even told me that they read the situation on briangle.com! It's so popular!
Some of my friends from school even told me that they read the situation on briangle.com! It's so popular!
I LOVE this riddle!!!!!!!!!!! : )
Good answers drworm and pinkrose but still as it says "Many 'Situation Puzzles' are not designed to be answered by themselves. The idea is for one person to know the answer and other people in a group to try and guess it using yes or no questions. The first person to get the answer is the winner". SandPman read that!!! And hlkatw and dark-prince n evry1 else read that part too!! Gd1 arij!!
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i agree w/ missie and mogmat
If there's one bad servant teaser, I haven't heard it!!
Hehe. Very clever, and much simpler than what I thought of - I thought he would wish to have a son who would become a famous eye doctor - then the son would become rich and maybe give money to the grandfather, and fix the grandmother's eyesight. But now that I think of it that wouldn't work because by the time the son grew up the grandmother would be very old....very good!
Oct 24, 2003
This sentence reads, "One day, the master called his servant and asked him for a wish". If this request is true, shouldn't the servant be granting a wish to the master?
good, but a little easy.
That is very funny!
That was really clever! I thought he would ask for more wishes
Dec 01, 2004
The end says:
You have to tell what the servant asked the master.
The answer says:
"The servant said...."
I assumed it was a question and that he was therefore asking for more wishes or for their wishes to come true.
Ending...not good.
You have to tell what the servant asked the master.
The answer says:
"The servant said...."
I assumed it was a question and that he was therefore asking for more wishes or for their wishes to come true.
Ending...not good.
Simple maybe, but I didn't guess it. I went with the wish for three more wishes thing, too. Think the servants answer is much better.
This one is rather straightforward, but highly entertaining
Mar 04, 2005
that was really funny! good work!
The answer is stupid. The riddle was wirtten out very well and it made e hope for a great answer. What does a swing of gold have to do with it. You could have used any example but you picked a "swing of gold"....stupid!
Ok, I was way off.
an ok teaser, only because it has so many alternate answers. when i read it i thought the servant would ask for three more wishes, or something like that. and by the way sk8babe, itss a mystery teaser not a situation teaser
Well, I'm going to take a shot here about that "swing of gold" phrase. My gues is that's the phrase used in the reference from whence our member cribbed the puzzle. This is an oooold folk riddle.
cool, but how is he going to grant those wishes?
heehee...clever.
Kind of cool that the servant never directly asked for anything for himself, yet prospered by asking for others. I'm sure he finagled a cut of the gold swing after the fact, was happy to have a little one to carry on his name, and was glad his mom could see him again (which also helped with the baby sitting!). Fun!
wow that one was really good i said that he wanted to be the milloniare because if the millionare was married and had a son,and had an alive mother then it would work because he would also be rich
awesome whoa
I was thinking he could ask for a son who will become a wealthy and good eye doctor. Not a bad riddle at all
clever!
he could ask for 3 wishes.then wish for gold.next,a baby of any sex.last,wish for good eyesight for the mother.that would all add up to a wish.the grandson wouldn't like to swing on gold all day wouldn't she/he....
I liked it! I had quite a few different scenarios but yours was better, shorter and cooler!
This was very well written and much fun trying to figure out what he was going to ask for. For this to be a family sight you people sure don't mind calling one another out of their name. If you don't like it so be it but to be so rude and mean is uncalled for. Children read these comments!
Clever answer, requires some thought behind it.
This is actually a really neat teaser! I loved it! My answer was totally far off , but I really enjoyed it!!!!!! GREAT JOB!
Or he could have simply asked for 3 more wishes ( turn his one wish to 3)
To me, this one was a bit boring.
A very old tale indeed, probably Persian or Indian, there is an old Chinese version 'with the grandmother watching her grand child dancing in a silk robe.'
Creative. I didn't get it though because i could never think of how it all could fit togethor
boring, uncreative, and very disapointing.
Very trick. Oh and blackbelt92, quit being a stick in the mud.
That was cool! Thanks for the neat brain teaser!
I thought he would have asked that his mother, wife, and father each receive one wish, but your answer was much more creative and fun! I don't really know if the gold swing is specific enough, since the servant's son could have been at a wealthy man's house with his grandmother, but still, excellent teaser!
He didnt ask himself what he wanted? Awwww thats sweet of him to think of his family.
He could have just wished for 3 wishes, wow
Faaaaabulous teaser! Very creative!
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Easy, but very fun, and extraordinarily well written. Which is a big bonus in my book.
I was thinkin he asked for the power to grant wishes.
$ourDough said that this one was unbelievable! He loved it!
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This is a very nice and tricky question ood jod
This is a very nice and tricky question good jod
Just your Old Run of the Mill Wish Teasers. To swing on a Swing made of gold, does not include the Grandfather's Wish. Perhaps a bar of gold the size of a swing provides much wealth, but the third wish, ah there is a first, second and third wish. Simple: One Wish ~ Allow my Grandmother to see My Son who will become Wealthy. I like that as One Wish, not Three wishes. All wishes must be something he could truly Desire.
I was thinking something along the lines of "That i have a son who becomes an eye doctor who finds a cure for blind people, resulting in much wealth for our family."
or not
or not
Yay! I got it right! Another thing the answer could have been was that the servants says, "My mother to see her grandson playing with my father's money."
My answer: the servant said, "I wish fOr more wishes!!
I wish my family wasn't so selfish
I see what you did there....
I've never liked this one because a) There are many answers that would satisfy those conditions, and b) The answer assumes the master is omnipotent or has supernatural powers, which isn't stated and isn't a valid assumption to make. Yes, he did say "Any wish", but if someone said that to you in real life, you would still assume they only meant something that was within their power.
LOL. My solution was to just ask for money to solve everything - get Lasik for his mother, get IVF for his wife, and get money for err'body.
You know what? The first thing I thought was "I want to be able to manipulate reality." The master did say anything...
Didn't look at answer yet, and didn't look at other comments.
Answer: He wished for wife to become pregnant with Jesus.
Did I get it?
Answer: He wished for wife to become pregnant with Jesus.
Did I get it?
Ugggggggh. No, I didn't. But I would think my answer would still work. His wife would have a child, Jesus healed the blind, and the three wise men brought gold to the birth, thus fulfilling all three wishes.
He could've also wished he was in control of probability.
Probability of children? 0%? Change that to 100!
Probability of certain death? 100%? Change that to 0!
Probability that a billion dollars will just fall out of the sky? 0%? Change that to 100!
Probability of children? 0%? Change that to 100!
Probability of certain death? 100%? Change that to 0!
Probability that a billion dollars will just fall out of the sky? 0%? Change that to 100!
Failz with the last comment, for the probability of certain death that should've been probability of eyesight returning. 0%? Let's change that to 100!
I like chain-reaction things like this one. Ask for one thing, get the rest.
If I were given one wish, I would ask to be the world's smartest scientist. Then I could get rich from my discoveries and when I discover mind control, I could just mind-control everyone into making me the queen of the world, so yeah.
And I have another idea for the servant- if he says, "O Master, please grant me the power to grant and fulfill wishes like you can.", he can just give everyone their wishes, and more.
Or just, "Hey, give me your wish-power-thingy!", depending on how polite he was.
Another completely unrelated thing to other commenters- Isn't there some genie's rule about not asking for more wishes? You can see this in many specific comic strips as well, including Phoebe and her Unicorn, Pearls Before Swine, the Far Side, and Foxtrot.
(I'm sort of a comic nerd and I work this into most every conversation I have .)
If I were given one wish, I would ask to be the world's smartest scientist. Then I could get rich from my discoveries and when I discover mind control, I could just mind-control everyone into making me the queen of the world, so yeah.
And I have another idea for the servant- if he says, "O Master, please grant me the power to grant and fulfill wishes like you can.", he can just give everyone their wishes, and more.
Or just, "Hey, give me your wish-power-thingy!", depending on how polite he was.
Another completely unrelated thing to other commenters- Isn't there some genie's rule about not asking for more wishes? You can see this in many specific comic strips as well, including Phoebe and her Unicorn, Pearls Before Swine, the Far Side, and Foxtrot.
(I'm sort of a comic nerd and I work this into most every conversation I have .)
He wish that he want his mother to see her grandchildren playing in wealth!"
This is really clever!
It'd be beneficial to specify that asking for 3 wishes isn't an option.
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