Oh jeez, he's here.
>How are you supposed to know they're not horses when the riddle says they're horses, but also know that the rest of the words in the riddle are true?
By having a brain that works properly and can make indirect connections like that. Seriously, six year olds can do this stuff, user. It's not the riddle's fault, you're like a color blind person who can't see the letter E hidden in all the dots.
Those two threads have actually helped me understand that one riddle and some of the rules for solving riddles. I only keep bringing it up because it's funny.
Thing is, nobody I've talked to uses rules to solve riddles, most people just do it intuitively.
The baby sphinx will think you're it's mother, they have really nasty separation issues too.
Nobody does. Riddles are usually just wordplay or based around double meanings behind things.
Ask her to explain the plot of Evangelion.