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Sam and Sarah saw seven sharks riddle is doing the rounds on the internet for quite some time. Read more to know Sam and Sarah saw seven sharks riddle answerAre one of those people who can't resist solving a puzzle, riddle, or quiz as soon as you receive them on your WhatsApp, Twitter or Facebook? The excess of free time in these quarantine days has led people to resort to various online puzzles, quizzes, and riddles to brush up their skills. Nowadays, you can find many social media platforms flooded with such fun games and riddles that will keep you away from boredom for a long time. Check out one such riddle that has led people to scratch their heads. The riddle is called as "Sam and Sarah saw seven sharks riddle". Have you heard about this riddle before? Check out the answer. ALSO READ| 'Penny Has 5 Children': Check The Answer To This Mind-boggling Riddle Sam and Sarah saw seven sharks riddleThis riddle asks the following: Sarah and Sam saw seven sharks. How many ‘S’ are in the sentence? Read the sentence once more, just to be sure! Image courtesy: Shutterstock ALSO READ| What 9 Letter Word Is Still A Word After You Remove One Letter Each Time? Riddle Solved Sam and Sarah saw seven sharks riddle answerThe answer is 1. The question asks you to count the number of ‘S’ in the sentence, and there is only 1 'S' in the word 'sentence'. So while you may be fixated on counting the letters ‘S’ in the whole riddle, you only needed to focus about finding the ‘S’ in the actual word ‘sentence’. Other answers: Some people also say that there are 7 'S' in the whole sentence. While others also say that they are 2 'S' in the sentence, as the rest of the 'S' are in lower case but the 'S' of Sam and Sarah are in upper case, which was basically what the question asked to count. ALSO READ| 100 People Standing In A Circle Riddle And Its Logical Answer Check out some more trending riddles:
Trending riddles answerRiddle 1: Short (Add 'er' and it becomes 'shorter') Riddle 2: Window Riddle 3: Counterfeit money Riddle 4: A stamp Riddle 5: L8 (When you turn the numbers upside down, they could be counted backwards from 91. So the number 87 would only be formed when you write L8 normally). ALSO READ| Cats In Square Room Riddle: Check Out The Answer To This Mind Boggling Riddle First Published: 12th June, 2020 18:21 IST Getty Anew riddle is making the rounds on social media. This riddle doesn’t actually ask about the sharks at all, but asks about the “S” in the sentence. Here’s a look at the riddle, the answer, and an explanation. The question usually reads something like this:
As with most riddles like this, there’s a trick. The trick lies in just how the question is worded and the answer may not be what you expected. Ready for the answer? Then read on. Here’s the Answer to the RiddleThe answer to the riddle is that there is 1 ‘S.’ How could this be? The trick is that the riddle asks “How many ‘S’ are in the sentence?” Sure, you might think this means the preceding sentence. But it’s actually asking how many of the letter S are in the word sentence. In that case, the answer is one. This is one of those riddles where it really is logical to argue that the question can be viewed in a different way. You might have counted the S letters in the preceding sentence and guessed more. Or you guessed two because you only counted the last sentence. Others might make an even better argument for “2” based on the fact that the question asks how many “S” are in the sentence. This looks like it might be asking how many times the letter S was capitalized. If you guessed “2 uppercase” based on Sarah and Sam, you could probably make a pretty good argument for that answer. (Or you could guess 3 uppercase, if you counted the S in the second sentence too. See, it gets confusing.) The traditional answer, however, is still just one. This is a hotly debated riddle. There’s even a Reddit discussion about it where people had a lot to say. One person wrote: “The answer is apparently one. But the riddle makes no sense. It claims that there is only one s in sentence but the question clearly asks in THE sentence.” There are other opinions too. And some of them get complicated. One person shared the same riddle, but every word was capitalized in the riddle. They wrote on Reddit:
Basically, the sentence about Sarah and Sam isn’t even relevant to the riddle. It’s just an extra sentence. The trick is realizing that we’re just being asked how many S’s are in the (word) sentence. But another reader argued for 0. They wrote: “It’s zero. the first sentence doesn’t matter. Because the question asks about THIS sentence, so the string of words that THIS exists in is what we should be looking at. but it’s technically a question, not a sentence, so there are 0 S’s in there because it’s not a sentence.” As you can see, the more you analyze this riddle, the more confusing it gets. The best solution is to just take the simple response where you’re counting the number of times the letter S appears in “the sentence” and you end up with just one. READ NEXT: Daily COVID-19 Updates |