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If in each corner of a square room ther was a monkey and you asked a monkey how many monkeys it was looking at how many monkeys would it say?

For the sake of this riddle just imagine that the monkey can talk.

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It never says the monkey is in the room...they could be totally different sets of clues. You can't get the answer from the information given.

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how do i make the riddle say solved?

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What if the monkey suffered from Dyslexia? Then he would answer 70!

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how do i make the riddle say solved?

I think you just did.

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I think you just did.

haha i guess i did.

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Actually imagine would apply, and should not be misleading. Imagine is define as "to form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case." Since the monkeys in a square room is most likely imaginary, saying that "for the sake of the riddle, imagine the monkey can talk" would apply. So the answer would be whatever number the monkey wanted to say. You simply misused the word imaginary. Not trying to be mean, just wanted to point it out.

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I have read through this, though I have an alternate answer entirely.

We are assuming that it's a square room, and the monkey you are asking can talk and is intelligent enough to count. My guess is that the monkey would say, "Help, get me out of this 2D space, I feel like a pancake!"

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The Monkey will reply with "0". Yes ZERO. Coz it is talking with you, means it is watching you. if you are monkey then only the ans will be one else it's ZERO..

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If the monkey is trained, it will understand your question. There were many scientific experiments that proove the human-animal communication abilities of large mammals. Unfortunately whatever the monkey tries to answer, we will not understand the answer as we (the humans) still aren't able to recognise the "language" of other animals.

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Infinite, because you are a mirrored room, so you can see infinite monkeys with all the mirrors.

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Even if you assume monkeys can talk can you assume they can count? I think the monkey would say 4. There are no handholds for the upper corners so I assume there are not monkey's there. That leaves the three monkeys in the corners of the room and you (monkey can't distinguish between monkey and human).

I agree. As agile as they are, a monkey is not a gecko (lizard with anti-gravity grip) or a flying insect like a butterfly.

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how do i make the riddle say solved?

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thanks