Giraffe Riddle and Why You are Probably Answering it Wrong, or Right?

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Trends around social media spread fast throughout friends and mutual friends alike whether they make sense or are just plain crazy. As of Oct. 28, 2013 a brand new trend on Facebook infiltrated facebook users alike. The trend is simple trend is known as the “Giraffe Riddle”.

If you have seen many of your friends change their Profile Pictures to a Giraffe, well, this is the reason why and sometimes the change maybe in vain or not completely accurate.

Before you continue reading this, I you don’t want to know any more about this riddle and want to figure out the answer yourself, stop reading now cause the mystery will be SOLVED and SPOILED in a bit.

Let's start off with the riddle itself:

"It’s 3 a.m., the doorbell rings and you wake up. Unexpected visitors! It’s your parents and they are here for breakfast. You have strawberry jam, honey, wine, bread and cheese. What is the first thing you open?"

The way is it trending and being shared along Facebook is that someone will post this riddle as their status and their friends will send a private message with the answer. If the answer is correct, lucky you get to keep your profile picture, but if the answer is wrong, you have to change your profile picture to a giraffe for a week.

Now the answer to the giraffe riddle. The answer is “the door”.

It is actually a very simple riddle and can be answered quickly without much thought.

The riddle points by its wording that it might be one of the food items. Although the real problem is that people are going around saying the answer is not “the door”, but that the answer is “your eyes”.

The problem with the answer being “your eyes” is that the giraffe riddle states that after the doorbell rings, ‘you wake up’. Hypothetically, if you have already woken up, then your eyes are already open right? But you still have to open the door to let your parents in.

Hence, the true answer is “the door” and make sure to answer the riddle with that answer. If someone tells you that you’re wrong, just enjoy the fun of having your profile picture as a giraffe and knowing that you are right and they are wrong.

Although, if there just has to be an argument, there are different ways to interpret the giraffe riddle, and everyone thinks in different ways that their answer is correct so let’s just keep in all in good fun for all.

To those who have gotten trolled by the riddle, did you answer it correctly? Or did you answer it wrong? Post your comments below!