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Posted by Mike on Thursday, September 3, 2009 at 3:11pm.

If the day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Sunday, he confides; What day is today?

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• math - SHIRLON, Friday, September 4, 2009 at 12:59pm

  SUNDAY

  
  

• math - Anonymous, Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 11:53pm

  This is definitely a riddle of English, not math, with very bad grammar, which I absolutely HATE. For RPG fans, there are two similar ones with equally bad grammar/organization of language in Baldur's Gate II. The brother and sister riddle combines math with bad English to form a riddle that just completely lost me. The other puzzle on names which is found in a certain note from a quest also seems to have some problems with its design. I followed the words to solve halfway just fine, but the other half didn't make any sense even when I found out the answer. (If anyone knows what I'm talking about, I greatly welcome an explanation.) And yes, I agree the answer to this riddle is "Sunday".

  
  

• math - Anonymous, Monday, September 21, 2009 at 12:56am

  Err... Excuse me, I mispoke. I got so wrapped up in talking about other riddles I didn't look closely at this riddle. I believe the answer is not Sunday, but "Saturday". Let's see if my breaking down of this bad grammar riddle is correct: "the day before tomorrow" is "today" which makes "two days after" mean "the day after tomorrow" but "the day BEFORE two days after" would it's actually 1 day after today--- which means what the riddle is actually saying is: Tomorrow is Sunday. Ergo, "today" is Saturday.

  
  

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