Riddles can be pretty strange. Some require massive amounts of critical thinking while others are really challenging only because they are super simple. That’s probably the case for this one, which a YouTuber is calling the ‘world’s hardest riddle.’ Interestingly, it stumps nearly all of the students at Harvard yet when told to five-year-olds, most of them are able to solve it.
The YouTuber shared a video with the riddle, explaining how 98% of Harvard students got it wrong but 83% of kindergartners got it right. Before rattling off the riddle, she consoled viewers, telling them that if they can’t solve it then they are “dumber than a kindergartner” but noted they are still “right up there with Harvard students.”
The riddle is, “I turn polar bears white and I will make you cry. I make guys have to pee, and girls comb their hair. I make celebrities look stupid and normal people look like celebrities. I turn pancakes brown and make your champagne bubble. If you squeeze me, I’ll pop but if you’ll look at me, you’ll pop. Can you guess the riddle?”
A majority of the 95,500 comments were either wrong answers or people confessing that they have no idea what the correct response is. One person wrote, “My mind goes straight to pressure. I think with most of the questions it makes sense but if it isn’t pressure then I have no clue,” while another admitted, “I forgot every sentence right after she started the next sentence.”
Some did get it right though, like the person who wrote, “The Answer is: ‘No.’ Harvard students try to find something that matches the hints but kindergarteners just give up.” Another commenter went on to explain, “The answer is ‘No.’ At the end, they asked, ‘Can you guess the riddle?’ If you think about it, a kindergartener would say no to this because it sounds very complicated but a Harvard student would most likely try to answer ‘logically.'”
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