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A train is running along a circle and ends there, where it begins. How can Juku get to his father in the police and Mari to her mother in the hospital? Answer: Jüri pushes Mari under the train Archive reference: RKM, KP 11, 426 (15) Location: Tln Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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There is a railway track, on which a train is running all the time. In the middle a queen is buried. But outside there is a king, who really longs to get to the other side. How can he make it? Answer: He jumps under the train and he will be buried next to the queen Archive reference: RKM, KP 11, 161 (9) Location: Tln Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A brother and a sister want to get across the railway track. The sister to their mother in the graveyard, the brother to their father in the jail. How is it possible? Answer: The brother throws the sister in front of the train, the sister is buried next to her mother and the brother is put into jail to his father Archive reference: RKM, KP 52, 21 (15) Location: Vru Date: 1993 Subject: train |
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How can a woman get to the graveyard and a man to the jail, if the train is running in circle all the time? Answer: The man throws the woman under the train Archive reference: RKM, KP 43, 158 (8) Location: Saa Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A girl and a boy are standing in a circle, around the circle there is a railway track, on which a train is running all the time. But the girl wants to go to her mother in the hospital, and the boy to his father in the jail. How can they make it? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train Archive reference: RKM, KP 23, 475 (123) Location: Kõp Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A is an old lady. How can she get to the graveyard, if B is a speeding train? Answer: She steps in front of the train. Archive reference: RKM, KP 36, 112 (4) Location: Trt Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a man get to a woman? A train is running back and forth (3600 km/h) Answer: He jumps under the train. Archive reference: RKM, KP 34, 454 (6) Location: Rõn Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A train is running all the time in circle. A boy wants to go to his father in the jail and a girl to her mother in the hospital. How can they go? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train. The boy is taken to jail and the girl to the hospital Archive reference: RKM, KP 34, 51 (5) Location: Nõo Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a girl go to the graveyard and a boy to the police? Answer: The girl is hit by the train and gets to the graveyard and the boy then goes to the police. Archive reference: RKM, KP 22, 187/8 (4) Location: Prn Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a girl get to the graveyard and a boy to the jail? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train and the girl gets killed and the boy is put to the jail. Archive reference: RKM, KP 20, 352 (5) Location: Han, Virtsu Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A boy wants to go to the police, a girl to the graveyard? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train, the girl gets killed, the boy is taken to the police. Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 168 (6) Location: Hps Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A train circles around. Inside from the train, a crone is standing, she needs to go to the graveyard. How can she get there? Answer: She jumps under the train. Archive reference: RKM, KP 26, 324 (8) Location: Se, Meremäe, Uusvada k Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A train circles around. But inside from the train, there are a boy and a girl. The girl wants to go to her mother in the hospital. A boy to his father in the police. How can they get there? Answer: Very simply. The boy pushes the girl under the train and gets to the militia, the girl to the hospital. Archive reference: RKM, KP 26, 324 (7) Location: Se, Meremäe, Uusvada k Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a girl get to her mother and a boy to his father, if the train is running all the time? Answer: The boy throws the girl under the train, the boy gets to the jail, the girl to hospital. Archive reference: RKM, KP 20, 199 (2) Location: Han, Mõisa k Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a man get to the jail and a woman to the graveyard? Answer: The man pushes the woman under the train. The man then goes to jail and the woman to the graveyard. Here the train is running so fast, so one can’t go through. Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 196 (6) Location: TMr, Tammistu sjk Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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Tell me, how can a girl and a boy get out? Answer: The boy throws the girl under the train, the girl is taken to the hospital, the boy is taken to the jail. Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 185/6 (2) Location: Tln Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A man wants to go to the jail to see his friend and a woman wants to go to the hospital to see her daughter. But the train speeds so fast, that they can’t get across the railway track? Answer: The man pushes the woman under the train, the man is sentenced to the jail and the woman is taken to the hospital. Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 35 (1) Location: Kuu Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A boy’s father is in jail, a girl’s mother in hospital. Buildings are located side-by-side and around the buildings a train is running all the time, so that one cannot cross the railway track. How can the girl get to her mother and the boy to his father? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train. Archive reference: RKM, KP 18, 524/5 (12) Location: Mär Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A boy wants to go to the jail to see his father, a girl to the graveyard to her mother’s grave. Around the graveyard and the jail a train is running all the time and doesn’t stop. How can the girl get to the graveyard and the boy to the jail? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train. Archive reference: RKM, KP 18, 3 (10) Location: Mär Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A man wants to the jail and a woman to the graveyard, how can they? Answer: The man pushes the woman under the train, the woman dies and is buried Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 156 (5) Location: Kei, Laagri Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A man wants to go to the jail and a woman to the graveyard, how to do it? Answer: The man pushes the woman under the train and the man is taken to the jail. Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 154 (1) Location: Hps Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a girl get to the graveyard and a boy to the jail? NB! You can’t go around, the train is running in circle all the time. Answer: The boy throws the girl under the train and so he gets to the jail and the girl to the graveyard. Archive reference: RKM, KP 21, 165 ja 166 (1) Location: Han, Mõisaküla Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a man get to the graveyard, if a train is running around the graveyard? Answer: He jumps under the train. Archive reference: RKM, KP 26, 467 (2) Location: Vlg Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can children go where they want to? Answer: The boy throws the girl under the train, then he is arrested and taken to the office, the girl is put to the hospital for treatment. Archive reference: RKM, KP 9. 41 (11) Location: Tln Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A train is running all the time. How can a boy get to his father in the jail and a girl to her mother in the hospital? Answer: The boy throws the girl under the train. Archive reference: RKM II 418, 57 (6) Location: Pde Date: 1988 Subject: train |
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How can a boy and a girl get one to one and another to another side? Answer: This way, that the boy carries the girl under the train, the girl gets killed and goes to the graveyard, and the boy is put to the jail for the deed. Archive reference: RKM II 417, 59 (34) Location: JJn Date: 1988-9 Subject: train |
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How can P get to the hospital and T to the graveyard, if the train is running all the time? Answer: P throws T under the table and goes to the jail, and T dies and goes to the graveyard. Archive reference: RKM II 418, 80 Location: Pde Date: 1988 Subject: train |
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Father of a boy and a girl is in jail, and mother is dead. The girl wants to go to their mother and boy to their father. A train comes, but the children can’t get across. How can the children get across? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train, the boy is put to the jail and he gets to his father, and the girl dies and she gets to her mother. Archive reference: RKM I 21, 212 (2) Location: Trt Date: 1988-9 Subject: train |
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Around the graveyard a train is running all the time and one can’t get across the railway track. A man wants to go to see her wife in the graveyard, i.e. wants to get to his wife. How is it possible? Answer: The man throws himself under the train. Archive reference: RKM II 324, 4/5 (13) Location: Trt Date: 1976 Subject: train |
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How can a boy get to his father and a girl to her mother? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train, so the boy can get to his father and the girl to her mother. Archive reference: RKM, KP 3, 25 (1) Location: Kuu, Loksa Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a boy go to his father in the jail and a girl to her mother in the hospital? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train. The boy goes to his father in the jail and the girl to her mother in the hospital. Archive reference: RKM, KP 3, 33 (2) Location: Kuu, Loksa Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A girl wants to get to her mother in the hospital, the boy wants to get to his father in the jail. They can’t go, because around them a train is running, that doesn’t stop. What do they have to do? Answer: The boy has to push the girl under the train and he gets to the jail, and the girl to the hospital. Archive reference: RKM, KP 2, 393 (1) Location: Nrv Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A train is running all the time in circle. How could a man get to the graveyard? Answer: He has to jump under the train and in the graveyard he is. Archive reference: RKM, KP 1, 646 (59) Location: Nrv Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How could a girl get to her mother in the hospital, and a boy to his father in the jail? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train. The boy is taken to his father in the jail and the girl to her mother in the hospital. Archive reference: RKM, KP 1, 422/3 (11) Location: Nrv Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a sister and a brother go across the railway track, so that the sister to their mother in the hospital and the brother to their father in the jail? Answer: The brother throws the sister under the train, then the brother is taken to the jail, and the sister to the hospital. Archive reference: RKM, KP 1, 367 (4) Location: Vai, Narva-Jõesuu Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A train is running all the time. How can children get to their mother and father? Answer: They throw themselves under the train, then they get to the hospital to their mother. Afterwards, when they get well, they go to their father. Archive reference: RKM, KP 1, 464 (13) Location: Nrv Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a boy get to the militia (i.e. Russian police), and a girl to the hospital? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train, the girl gets to the hospital, and the boy to the militia. Archive reference: RKM, KP 1, 355 (4) Location: Nrv Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A mother and a daughter are in the middle of the railway track. A train is running around them all the time. The mother wants to get to the graveyard to the father’s grave and the daughter wants to get to the jail to her brother. How can they? Answer: The daughter kills her mother: mother gets to the graveyard, daughter to the jail. Archive reference: Location: Puh Date: 1988 Subject: train |
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This circle is a railway track and on the railway track a train is running all the time and in the middle of the railway track there is a jail and a hospital, outside are a girl and a boy. The girl wants to get to her mother, who works in the hospital and the boy wants to get to the jail, where his father is, how can the girl get to her mother and a boy to his father? Answer: The boy drives the girl under the train Archive reference: RKM, KP 3, 78/9 (1) Location: Kuu, Loksa Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A girl’s mother is in hospital. A boy’s father is in jail. How can the girl get to her mother in the hospital and the boy to his father in the jail. They are here in the middle of the picture and a train is running around them. They can’t get across the railway track anyhow. Answer: The boy throws the girl under the train and this is how the girl gets to the hospital and the boy is put to the jail. Archive reference: RKM, KP 3, 213/4 (8) Location: Kuu, Loksa Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a girl get to the hospital and a boy to the jail? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train. The girl goes to her mother in the hospital and they boy goes to his father in the jail. Archive reference: RKM, KP 3, 184 (3) Location: Kuu, Loksa Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a boy get to his father in the jail, but the girl in the hospital to her mother? Answer: Archive reference: RKM, KP 1, 287 (24) Location: Nrv Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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Along the railway track a train is running all the time, a crone is already in the graveyard, but a gaffer wants to get there as well. How can he get there? Answer: Archive reference: RKM II 418, 315 Location: Pde Date: 1988 Subject: train |
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A crone wants to go to the hospital, and a gaffer wants to go to the jail. A train is running in the middle. How can the crone get to the hospital and the gaffer to the jail? Answer: The gaffer pushes the gammer under the train, the gammer is taken to the hospital and the gaffer to the jail. Archive reference: RKM II 418, 161 Location: Pde Date: 1988 Subject: train |
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How can T get to the graveyard and P to the jail, if the train is running all the time? Answer: P pushes T under the train Archive reference: RKM II 418, 97 Location: Pde Date: 1988 Subject: train |
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How can a girl get to her mother in the graveyard and a boy to his father in the jail, if they are on the same piece of land and a train circles around that? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train and this is how the girl is buried to the graveyard next to her mother and the boy [is put to the jail to his father]. Archive reference: EFA II 10, 420 (4) Location: Tor, Suigu k Date: 1995 Subject: train |
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How can a boy get to the jail and a girl to the hospital, if a train is running all the time in circle and wouldn’t stop? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train and the boy goes to the jail for his crime and the girl to the hospital. Archive reference: EFA II 7, 101 (4i) Location: Tln Date: 1994 Subject: train |
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On a round railway track a train is running all the time. On one side of the railway track there is a police station and an emergency station. On another side of the railway track a girl and a boy are standing. The boy wishes to get to his father’s office in the police and the girl to her mother in the in the emergency hospital. How could the both… Answer: The boy throws the girl under the train. Archive reference: EFA II 7, 130 (4) Location: Tln Date: 1994 Subject: train |
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Here are a boy and a girl, here are a jail and a hospital, here a train is running in circle all the time. How can the girl get to the hospital and the boy to jail? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train. The girl goes to her mother in the hospital and the boy goes to his father in the jail. Archive reference: EFA I 15, 35 (7) Location: Mar Date: 1996 Subject: train |
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See, here is a jail, and here is a graveyard. How can Kalle get to his father in the jail and Malle to her mother in the graveyard, if the train is running around them in circle all the time? Answer: Kalle pushes Malle under the train. Archive reference: RKM II 467, 153 (2) Location: Vru Date: 1993 Subject: train |
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There a train is running all the time. A girl wants to get to her mother in the hospital, and a boy wants to get to his father in the jail. How can they make it? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train and the girl gets to the hospital, the boy is put to the jail for this. Archive reference: RKM I 26, 4/5 (4) Location: Plt Date: 1991 Subject: train |
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A railway track is around and in the middle there are a hospital and a jail. A daughter wants to go to her mother in the hospital, a son to his father in jail. How can they make it, if a train is running all the time? Answer: The son pushes the sister in front of the train. Archive reference: RKM II 463, 532 (11) Location: VNg < Rak Date: 1994 Subject: train |
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On this railway track there is a circle – a train, where there is no gap. Mari wants to go to see her mother in the hospital, and Juhan wants to go to see his father in the jail, how is it possible? Answer: Juhan pushes Mari under the train. Archive reference: EFA II 9, 99/100 (7) Location: PJg, Eavere Date: 1995 Subject: train |
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A boy has to go to the police and a girl to the hospital. How? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train, the girl is taken to the hospital, the boy to the police. Archive reference: EFA II 10, 309 (22) Location: PJg, Are Pk, 9. kl Date: 1995 Subject: train |
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How can a girl get to her mother and a boy to his father, if a train is running all the time, then there is a train on the railway track all the time, so they cannot get across? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train, then the girl gets to the hospital and the boy to the jail. Archive reference: EFA II 7, 214 (3) Location: Tln Date: 1994 Subject: train |
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A girl wants to get to the graveyard and a boy to the jail. How can they get there? Answer: Archive reference: EFA I 10, 192 (1) Location: Urv Date: 1996 Subject: train |
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What is going on here? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train, this will go to the hospital, the boy to the jail. Archive reference: EFA I 6, 217 (12) Location: Vil, Viiratsi Date: 1995 Subject: train |
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How can a boy get to the police and a girl to the hospital? Answer: Archive reference: EFA II 10, 32 (24b) Location: PJg Date: 1995 Subject: train |
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Answer: The boy has to [push] the girl under the train and the girl the boy. Then they get across from under the train. Archive reference: RKM, KP 3, 36 (3) Location: Kuu, Loksa Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A railway track of an express, where a train is running all the time. A man, who wants to get to the graveyard. How could he? Answer: He throws himself in front of the train and soon he is taken to the graveyard. Archive reference: RKM, KP 52, 21 (14) Location: Vru Date: 1993 Subject: train |
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A round railway track. Along the railway track a train is running so fast that one cannot run across. Two people need to get across. One needs to visit his friend in the hospital and another needs to visit his friend in the jail. How can they get across? Answer: The one, who needs to go to the jail, throws the one, who needs to get to the hospital, under the train. Archive reference: RKM, KP 9, 311 (2) Location: Tln Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A boy and a girl have got to an area, around which a train speeds so fast, that if someone went to the railway track, he would get killed at once. Both children would like to go to their parents. The boy’s father works in the militia (i.e. a Russian police), and the girl’s mother works in the hospital. How is it possible? Answer: The boy throws the girl under the train and this is taken to the hospital. And the boy is taken for the militia for this. Archive reference: RKM, KP 9, 144 (7) Location: Tln Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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Here a train circles, that doesn’t stop at all. How can a boy and a girl get one to one and another to another side? Answer: This way, that the boy carries the girl under the train, the girl gets killed and goes to the graveyard. And the boy is put to the jail for this deed. Archive reference: RKM, KP 40, 72 (9) Location: JJn Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A boy and two girls are standing on the meadow. A train is running around them and it is impossible to go away from there. The boy wants to go to the jail to see his father, one girl wants to go to the hospital, another to the graveyard. How can they make it? Answer: The boy throws one girl by her legs under the train and this gets to the hospital, the other one he throws all over under the train and this girl goes to the graveyard. The boy gets to the jail. Archive reference: RKM, KP 36, 87/8 (7) Location: Trt Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can Miku and Mann get to their mother and father, if the mother is a doctor and the father is a militiaman (i.e. a Russian policeman). Miku wants to their father and Mann to their mother. On the railway track a train is running all the time Answer: Miku pushes Manni under the train. Archive reference: RKM, KP 33, 103 (4) Location: Nõo Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a boy get to the hospital? Answer: He gets hit by the train. Archive reference: RKM, KP 32, 179 (6) Location: Nõo, Tõravere Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can an old lady get to the graveyard, if a train is running all the time? Answer: Puts her head under the train. Archive reference: RKM, KP 33, 103 (3) Location: Nõo Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A train is running very fast, but a crone wants to go to see her husband’s grave, but cannot get across the railway track. How would she get there? Answer: She would get hit by the train. The she would be buried next to her husband. Archive reference: RKM, KP 31, 288 (2) Location: Kam, Sillaotsa Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A boy wants to get to the jail and a girl to the hospital. How is it possible? A train is running all the time. Answer: The girl will be pushed under the train by the boy and he will go to the jail. The girl is taken to the hospital. Archive reference: RKM, KP 8, 209 (20) Location: Tln Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How would a girl get to her mother and how a boy to his father? The girl’s mother works in the hospital, the boy’s father in the police. Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train. The girl is taken to the hospital and the boy goes to the police. Archive reference: RKM, KP 8, 248 (7) Location: Tln Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a crone get to the graveyard and a thief to the jail? Answer: The thief pushes the gammer under the train, this is how the thief gets to the jail and the gammer to the graveyard. Archive reference: RKM, KP 28, 37 (4:5) Location: Urv Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A train is running so fast, that it is impossible to get across the railway track alive. A boy and a girl need to get across, so that one would end up in the hospital and another in the militia (i.e. a Russian police)? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train and he gets to the militia, the girl to the hospital. Archive reference: RKM, KP 8, 178 (12) Location: Tln Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a boy get to his father in the police and a girl to her mother in the hospital? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the train and he is taken to the police, and the girl is taken to the hospital. Archive reference: RKM, KP 8, 161 (9) Location: Tln Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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The mother of a boy and a girl is in the hospital and father in the jail. The girl wants to get to their mother, but they can’t go, because around them there is a railway track, on which a train is running all the time. How could they go to their parents? Answer: The boy throws the girl to the jail. The boy is put to the jail and the girl is taken to the hospital. Archive reference: RKM, KP 4, 154 (b) Location: Kuu, Loksa Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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A crone is on a lawn, around which a train is running without stops. How can the crone get to her daughter’s grave? Answer: She jumps under the train. Archive reference: RKM II 324, 162 (23) Location: Nõo Date: 1976 Subject: train |
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Here is a graveyard, and around the graveyard goes a railway track. An old man wants to get to go to the graveyard to his crone. How can the old man get to the crone? Answer: He throws himself under the train. Archive reference: RKM II 347, 219/20 Location: Räp Date: 1980 Subject: train |
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A graveyard. Around the graveyard trains run all the time. A woman wants to go to the graveyard. How can she get there? Answer: She throws herself under the train. Archive reference: RKM II 324, 136 (19) Location: Kam Date: 1976 Subject: train |
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A boy and a girl want to go across the road, but cars run all the time. The boy’s father works in the militia (i.e. a Russian police), the girl’s mother in the hospital. Tell me, how can they get across the road? Answer: The boy pushes the girl under the car and he is taken to the militia to his father, and the girl is taken to the hospital to her mother. Archive reference: EKRK III 41 (1), 230 Location: Vln Date: 1988 Subject: train |
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A graveyard and a train is running all the time in circle. How can a man get to the graveyard? Answer: He has to go under the train. Archive reference: RKM, KP 27, 107 (1) Location: Urv Date: 1992 Subject: train |
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How can a lady get to the graveyard? Can you, father, guess? Answer: “Let’s try.” Mari Ann is drawing: A dot inside the circle is the lady, around the circle trains are running all the time, so there is no chance to go across the railway track. The lady thinks and thinks. Finally she runs under the train. Gets killed and thus gets to the graveyard. Archive reference: RKM II 350, 350/1 (14) Location: VJg Date: 1978 Subject: train |
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How can a man get to his wife’s grave, if the train is running all the time? Answer: These flowers, that he has in his hand, are nettles. Beats his bottom red, because the train doesn’t run with the red light. Archive reference: RKM, KP 3, 32/3 (1) Location: Kuu, Loksa Date: 1992 Subject: train |