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This Is The Phantom Lady · July 16, 2014 9:20 pm

Ooh! Uhm... I'm crap at this...

I grow in fields
Sometimes I have 3
Sometimes I have 4
If you look for me I will not work as intended
What am I?

besleybean · July 16, 2014 9:22 pm

Clover(leaves)?

This Is The Phantom Lady · July 16, 2014 9:42 pm

Yup! Pretty easy I suppose...

besleybean · July 16, 2014 9:51 pm

What does everybody get 2 of naturally in their life, but may get another made?

saturnR · July 16, 2014 10:03 pm

Teeth

besleybean · July 16, 2014 10:08 pm

Yep.

saturnR · July 17, 2014 2:29 am

What animal has 4 legs @ birth; 2 legs @ maturity & 3 legs @ old age?

stoertebeker · July 17, 2014 5:25 am

Human . 4 legs = crawling (baby), 2 legs = walking, 3 legs = walking with a cane (at old age)

Liberty · July 17, 2014 5:57 am

besleybean wrote:
What does everybody get 2 of naturally in their life, but may get another made?

My answer was going to be "parents" - ha ha!

Here's one from my childhood:

What can go up a chimney down, but not down a chimney up?

saturnR · July 17, 2014 6:01 am

Steam

Liberty · July 19, 2014 11:13 am

Not steam or smoke (or anything to do with fire).

saturnR · July 19, 2014 11:19 am

Bugs. The ones that are tryw to get out of the house.

besleybean · July 19, 2014 1:37 pm

Sweeps?

Liberty · July 19, 2014 4:25 pm

No, it's a particular item (which doesn't have anything to do with chimneys). I think it's my fault you're not getting it because I should have used commas:

It can go up a chimney, down. But not down a chimney, up.

saturnR · July 19, 2014 11:51 pm

Gravity.

Liberty · July 20, 2014 7:24 am

Not gravity.

Think of it as ...

It's something that when it's up, wouldn't fit in a chimney. But it would when it was down.

And another little clue (which might completely give it away)

Mycroft has one.

SebbyM · July 20, 2014 7:33 am

Oh is it an umbrella??

Bored-to-be-alive · July 20, 2014 8:50 am

Now I'm very curious about the solution. Is SebbyM right? Yesterday, I agonised for hours.

Liberty · July 20, 2014 9:03 am

Yes, it's an umbrella!

SebbyM · July 20, 2014 9:29 am

This one I know from my childhood:
A young boy and his father are in a car accident. The father dies at the scene. The boy is transported to the hospital, taken immediately into surgery... but the surgeon steps out of the operating room and says, "I can't operate on this boy - he is my son!"

The question: Who is the surgeon?