Two fathers and two sons sat down to take tea.
They had exactly three cup of tea,
each person had a cup of tea.
Explain how?
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The solution to this classic puzzle is that the three people sitting down to have tea were a grandfather, his son, and his grandson. Therefore, the two fathers and two sons in the riddle actually refer to only three people.
Here’s how it works: The grandfather is a father to one of the sons and a father to the father of the other son. This means that there are three generations present: the grandfather, his son (who is a father), and his grandson (who is a son).
When the puzzle states that “two fathers and two sons sat down to take tea,” it is referring to the grandfather, who is a father and a grandfather, and his son, who is also a father. The grandson is the other son. So, there are two fathers (the grandfather and his son) and two sons (the son and the grandson), which makes a total of three people.
Since they had exactly three cups of tea and each person had a cup of tea, it means that each person had one cup of tea. Therefore, the grandfather, his son, and his grandson sat down to have tea, and each of them had a cup of tea.