A childs life is in your hands, what will you do?

Question

A slim crocodile living in the Nile took a child. His mother begged to have him back. The crocodile could not only talk, but was also a great sophist and stated, "If you guess correctly what I will do with him, I will return him. However, if you don't guess his fate, I'll eat him." What statement should the mother make to save her child?

Answer 1

Really, this has nothing to do with paranormal.

Answer 2

what ever statement the mother makes will be useless.You yourself said the crocodile was (slim) he will eat the child after he eats its mother

Answer 3

You tell the crocodile " You will not eat the child, you will give it back to me because I am going to guess correctly that you will eat the child if I try to guess it's fate"

Answer 4

She should do an exorcism on the crocodile. Everybody knows that crocodiles can't talk! It must be an alligator!!!! (As in the friendly Florida Gators!!)It will then spit the boy out..shout "Go Gators!" and take him to a football game.

BTW..Whenever people put these questions on here...they never tell us the answers. Before you resolve it..will you please tell the answer? (if there is one) Thanks!

Answer 5

I am guessing that the croc took the child in its paws and not with its clamp of a jaw with thousands of razor sharp teeth......

If the mother wants to save its child it will say "You will release the child as I offer myself as meal to you"

Another variation would be to grab the neibors kid and tell the croc, "You will release the child and eat this one, he is much tastier."

The croc needs to eat, even if it is intellectual and has vocal organs.

Answer 6

my child's fate is in your hands/jaws/claws

Answer 7

Is this in the Paranormal category because it features a talking crocodile? Maybe mythology would have been more appropriate.

But anyway, the answer "you will eat him", if false, will result in the croc eating him. If it is true, it is a logical contradiction since the croc can't both eat him and give him back to the woman.

The answer, "you will not eat him", if false, will result in the croc eating him. If it is true, then the woman gets the boy back and there is no contradiction.

The only answer that is going to work for her then is "you will not eat him" and hope that she's correct. However, the croc is going to do whatever is in his nature, that is, for a talking croc.

Answer 8

The mother should say "you will not eat him because if you do i will hunt you down and slowly torture you until your begging for your life, then i will cut off your head and shove it up your a**."

Answer 9

she should reply "i think you will do what is right"

Answer 10

"You're a lizard that feed on people so you obviously want to eat the kid, so hand him back before I make a pair of croc skin boots out of you"

Answer 11

Maybe something along the lines that if the crocodile didn't have the intent to eat him, he wouldn't have taken him.

Then I'd tell him the going price for crocodile leather if he thinks he still has any intentions of eating the child.

Answer 12

You will do what you will do.

Answer 13

She has very little chance of making the right statement so she should ask him what is the value of "pi". That should keep him busy.

Answer 14

The mother being well trained by the Egyptian army takes her military issued rifle and shoots the crocodile in the head thereby killing it, saving her child, and destroying all evidence of a talking crocodile.

Psi

Answer 15

I guess she should say "My child will be saved because I answered your question correctly". There. That should baffle the sophist croc of yours. And plus, it's right and logical!!!^_____^

Answer 16

She should tell it that it will eat the child no matter what.

Answer 17

Hello,,how about " I'll trade the child for my husband"and you'll have more to eat and we'll both be happier.