Supposdly this is a 3500 year old sumerian riddle found on a clay tablet.
Question:“A house… one enters it blind, one leaves it seeing?”
Answer: “A River”
I don’t get it.
Am I missing something or does this not make sense? Perhaps part of the riddle was lost?
A reference to some form of baptism, perhaps?
Wow, the ancient Sumerians played Texas Hold’em?
And look what happened to them? They’re all dead!
I know, I know…
Poking around a bit, I ran across this page, which has your riddle except the answer is “a school”.
Perhaps you have the wrong answer?
The version I saw up until now had the answer as “A river”.
However, A school makes much more sense.
sounds like an ad for Lasik Clinics?
Thanks for the help.
I was informed that the site I saw the riddle on had some bad coding, so the answer to that particular riddle is wrong. The right answer is there (A School), but not immdediatly accessable as it should be.
Wow. At a time in human history when writing was just being developed they already had schools… school houses even. :dubious:
Maybe river is correct. After all, one enters it (jumps in) with eyes closed, but you then open your eyes as you walk out of it.
But then again, a river isn’t a house, except, of course, for a school of fish.
From the Little House on the Mesopotamian Prairie.
That’s a bit fishy. It goes like this:
eyes are open
close your eyes
jump in
swim around for a while
jump out
eyes are closed
open your eyes
I mean, in the instant right before and right after you’re in the river, your eyes are closed, and then right before or after THAT moment, they’re open. Very contrived, if you ask me.
You jump out of a river with your eyes closed? Are you able to launch yourself out of a river with your eyes closed, land on the shore, and then open your eyes? Are you a descendent of an Atlantean?
Or, while walking out of the river, do you keep your eyes shut yelling “Marco”?
They had schools. I read a rather interesting book on Sumer(“History begins at Sumer”) and it had a chapter that talked about their educational system. Pretty much it was learning to read and write curiform, but those kids apparently had to work hard and their teachers were very unforgiving of mistakes. This much we know because one of the tablets we’ve recovered is apparently an essay written by a student about his average day.
Perhaps grandpa was right that us whippersnappers today have it easy…
Of course. Kids hated it. This was the beginning of Sumer School.
ouch. 
Please report to the punishment center.
Hey, I couldn’t help it. I was just reading through the thread, minding my own business, and there it was, on a tee, waiting to be hit. Anyone of you’d have done the same.