This particular riddle was actually asked by my school teacher 20 years ago. I am still trying to figure it out :-) Noone else could give me a good answer either.
There were two identical snakes whose bodies could stretch infinitely and their mouths can be opened infinitely wide too. Now, the first snake starts to swallow the second one starting at it's tail. And the second one immediately started swallowing the first one's tail at the same speed. The question is what happens to the snakes finally?
2006-11-24 14:25:47 · 27 answers · asked by R S 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
These snakes are very elastic, can compressed or stretched as much you want. The tricky part for me is when each snakes keeps swallowing the other till they reach the heads and then???
Also you have a situation where there is a snake inside a snake inside a snake.....
2006-11-24 14:41:07 · update #1
The snakes are not infinitely long. But they are very stretchable, which means they can swallow things of any size/length as their body will stretch accordingly.
2006-11-24 14:52:51 · update #2
To those who said they will form a ring, right. Then as they progress eating the ring gets smaller, but how small? And for argument's sake these snakes do not choke or die.
2006-11-24 14:58:49 · update #3
they go on forever eating each bit of each other
2006-11-24 14:27:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
REAL ANSWER: both will die, coz the a snakes heart's is in the middle of the body and when those two heads reach its others heart's at the same time, both will die.
(however, if the heart of another snake is much nearer to its tail, it would die first)
2006-11-24 14:54:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The snakes will be eating each other forever, as their bodies stretch infinitely (forever). Who knows - after 20 years, are they still eating each other?
2006-11-24 14:33:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
2 snakes length will become 1 snake length in the end , as when they swallow each others body , their length will goes into each body .
2006-11-24 15:44:32 · answer #4 · answered by chloe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
since they are both infinitely long there is no finally - both will go on swallowing the other forever (that's what infinite means)
a boring answer but I think it's right
2006-11-24 14:28:48 · answer #5 · answered by hot.turkey 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
nicely first of all, NOAH became the guy with the ark... no longer MOSES! i don't recognize the suitable answer yet i recognize something to do with snakes and moses... he (nicely God used him) became a rod right into a snake (or vise versa)... soo... wish this helps!!!! <3 Bethany
2016-10-17 12:15:02 · answer #6 · answered by benavidez 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the snakes are infinite, so they will either
a)never swallow each other
b)choke to death
c)just keep stretching
2006-11-24 14:37:33 · answer #7 · answered by Asker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They become an infinite ring
2006-11-24 14:37:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You got me, but I wont spend twenty years trying to work it out. Suggest you search for the teacher and get the anawer, that's a hell of a long wait youv'e had. Then come back and tell the rest of us !!!!!!!!!!!
2006-11-24 18:14:51 · answer #9 · answered by pokerfacelad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will not consume each other; just that once one of the snakes is too weak to move, it'll stop.
2006-11-24 14:28:46 · answer #10 · answered by cheese sticks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Updated Answer:
They continue on eating each other, in a ring, until they die of dehydration.
2006-11-24 14:28:03 · answer #11 · answered by Bballoakie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋