REVIVAL: Stump the person below you! (game)

[Gnerphk]

I loved it while it was active. Let's play again. :o)

While I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks;
Each sack had seven cats;
Each cat had seven kits.

Kits, cats, sacks, and wives:
How many were going to St.Ives?

[Elusive_Death]

2800??????

[Demonhero]

2800??????

2801 if you include the man (Which I presume you do.)

[Digger Walters]

Ill say 2 cos only the Man and the other man are actually stated as to be going to St. Ives

[Quantum Leap]

Ill say 2 cos only the Man and the other man are actually stated as to be going to St. Ives

I'll say just one simply based on the fact that the OP didn't indicate that the other man [and his supposed wives and all the stuff they supposedly have] was also going to St. Ives. He could be traveling in another direction for all we know.

[Demonhero]

I'll say just one simply based on the fact that the OP didn't indicate that the other man [and his supposed wives and all the stuff they supposedly have] was also going to St. Ives. He could be traveling in another direction for all we know.

Damnit. Star Wars Knights of the Old republic had this riddle in it, and I failed at that one too...

Cursed math.

[Gnerphk]

Correct answer, Raven.

When proceeding down a road, one only meets people coming from the other direction. Therefore, only one was going to St. Ives - me.

The total number of kits, cats, sacks and wives was 2800, plus the man that had them makes 2801... making the total number in the riddle 2802. So even the "wrong" answers were only close.

Demonhero: I'd guess because you're an Iron Maiden fan. Or is that your sig?

OK - someone else ask one.

[Demonhero]

Demonhero: I'd guess because you're an Iron Maiden fan. Or is that your sig?

That would be my sig.

[imnothere]

where two are found i'm often there
where one only stands i'm very rare
the more the merrier i seem to say
till all are gone and i away

[Gnerphk]

Laughter, would be my guess.