ESTONIAN DROODLES
83 variants

Question:
Answer: White bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 18, 54 (3)
Location: Mär Märjamaa Kk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question:
Answer: Three crocodiles in a lake.
Archive reference: RKM II 418, 152 (8)
Location: Pde
Date: 1988
Subject: white bread
Question:
Answer: A lake with three boats.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 7, 659 (5)
Location: Iis Iisaku Kk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question:
Answer: A lake and three boats.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 18, 464 (6)
Location: Mär Märjamaa Kk, 10. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: What is this?
Answer: White bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 22, 531 (6)
Location: Prn Pärnu 2. Kk, 10. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question:
Answer: Three boats on a pond.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 36, 104 (9)
Location: Trt Tartu 2. Kk. 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a man get across the river, if the boats are in the middle?
Answer: The man eats the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 22, 340 (4)
Location: Prn Pärnu 2. Kk, 9. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: A boy is on one side of the pond, a girl on the other side of the pond. Three boats are running on water. What do the boy and the girl have to do to get together
Answer: They have to eat the white bread.
Archive reference: EFA II 7, 154 (1)
Location: Tln Pääsküla Kk, 5. kl
Date: 1994
Subject: white bread
Question:
Answer: Three islands in a lake.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 36, 92 (30)
Location: Trt Tartu 2. Kk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: What is this?
Answer: White bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 16, 195 (5)
Location: Mär Märjamaa Kk, 5. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question:
Answer: Boats in the middle of a pond.
Archive reference: EFA II 8, 181 (7)
Location: Tln Pääsküla Kk, 6. kl
Date: 1994
Subject: white bread
Question:
Answer: Three boats are in the lake.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 36, 122 (25)
Location: Trt Tartu 2. Kk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question:
Answer: Boats at the lake.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 7, 678 (6)
Location: Iis Iisaku Kk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question:
Answer: A river or a lake with boats.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 21, 81 (5)
Location: Han, Mõisa Virtsu Pk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: What is this?
Answer: This is an island, where boats are on.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 428 (2)
Location: Vll Haapsalu San Internaatk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: What is this?
Answer: A lake with crocodiles.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 134 (1)
Location: Lai Haapsalu San Internaatk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question:
Answer: Three boats in a lake.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 20, 291 (5)
Location: Han Virtsu Pk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can fellows get to the boats, if a white bread is on the way?
Answer:
Archive reference: EFA I 10, 193 (5)
Location: Urv Antsla Kk
Date: 1996
Subject: white bread
Question: How can men get across, if they can’t go from under, above or by side?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: EFA II 7, 99 (4a)
Location: Tln Pääsküla Kk, 5. kl
Date: 1994
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a boy and a girl get together, if there is a pond between them and boats are in the middle of the pond?
Answer: They only need to eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 12, 565 (3)
Location: Tln Tallinna 7. Kk, 11. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: In the middle of a river there are three boats. Boys can’t reach the boats and can’t go around. How can the boys get across the river?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 9, 413 (1)
Location: Tln Tallinna 7. Kk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a boy get to a girl? It’s not allowed to go around the lake and boats are in the middle of the lake.
Answer: The boy eats up the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 12, 528 (1)
Location: Tln Tallinna 7. Kk, 11. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: A man and a woman are standing one at the one, and another at the other side of a lake. In the middle of the lake there are three boats. How can they reach the boats?
Answer: They eat the white bread around it.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 36, 87 (1)
Location: Trt Tartu 2. Kk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a man and a woman get together, if it’s not allowed to go around, they can’t go across, let alone from under?
Answer: They eat the white bread in between.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 36, 83 (9)
Location: Trt Tartu 2. Kk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: Two men are flying with a white bread. How can they get back to the ground?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 32, 149 (16)
Location: Nõo Nõo Reaalgümn, 4. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: This is an island. Either a gammer or a gaffer can’t go across the island, because a lion would eat them. How can the gammer get to the gaffer?
Answer: The island reminds of white bread. The gammer gnaws through the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 30, 764 (4)
Location: TMr, Lombi Kõrveküla Pk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question:
Answer: The gammer gnaws through the white bread
Archive reference: RKM, KP 30, 698 (3)
Location: TMr, Pilka Kõrveküla Pk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: This is a pond and there on the pond there are three boats these dots are people. One is a man and another a woman they love each other, but they can’t go by the side of the pond. How can they get together?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 30, 526 (1)
Location: TMr, Kõrveküla Kõrveküla Pk, 5. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a man and a woman get across a river, if there are gluttons everywhere and the bridge is broken and it’s impossible to go around the river?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 28, 2 (20)
Location: Urv Antsla Kk
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: A father is at the one, a son at the other side of a sea. It’s impossible to go by the side of or across the sea. How can they get together?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 8, 178 (11)
Location: Tln Tallinna 7. Kk, 6.a kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: They want to reach one another. They can’t swim, don’t have a boat, can’t go around a lake. How can they reach one another?
Answer: This lake is like white bread, they eat the white bread and so they can.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 8, 84 (25)
Location: Tln Tallinna 7. Kk, 6.a kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a gaffer go to a gammer, if boats are in the middle of a lake and it’s impossible to go around, because there is a swamp there?
Answer: The gaffer cuts the white bread in two. The lake and the boats remind of white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 7, 558/9 (75)
Location: Iis Iisaku Kk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a gaffer get across a lake to a gammer?
Answer: But this is white bread. The gaffer eats up the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 4, 66 (8)
Location: Kuu, Loksa, Loksa 1. Kk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: A boy is at the one side of the shore and a girl at the other side of the shore. How can the boy get to the girl?
Answer: The boy eats the white bread.
Archive reference: EFA II 7, 122 (2)
Location: Tln Pääsküla Kk, 5. kl
Date: 1994
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a girl get to a boy, if there is a big lake between them and boats are in the middle?
Answer: The boy and the girl eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM I 20, 190 (2)
Location: Tln Tallinna 60. Kk
Date: 1988
Subject: white bread
Question: How can they get together?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM II 418, 118
Location: Pde
Date: 1988
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a gammer and a gaffer get together, if all boats have left?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM II 418, 97
Location: Pde
Date: 1988
Subject: white bread
Question: One manhood wants to go to another manhood?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 1, 366 (1)
Location: Vai, Narva-Jõesuu Narva Eesti Kk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a gaffer get to a gammer?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 1, 500 (5)
Location: Nrv Narva Eesti Kk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a boy get to a girl, if boats have left?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM II 418, 79
Location: Pde
Date: 1988
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a gaffer get to a gammer, if boats are in the middle and it’s impossible to go around the lake. What do they have to do?
Answer: They have to eat the loaf of bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 1, 557 (6)
Location: Nrv Narva Eesti Kk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: What does a gaffer have to do to get to a gammer?
Answer: He has to eat the white bread, this is why the lake is shaped like this
Archive reference: RKM, KP 2, 635 (14)
Location: Nrv Narva Eesti Kk, 12. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a gammer and a gaffer get together? There is a big lake between them there are five boats on the lake, and a swamp all around?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM II 426, 129 (7)
Location: Vil Viljandi 4. Kk
Date: 1987
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a gammer and a gaffer get together? There is a lake between them there are five boats on the lake, and a swamp all around?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: EKRK III 41 (1), 226 (b)
Location: Vln Viljandi 4. Kk
Date: 1988
Subject: white bread
Question: What should a boy do to get across the sea?
Answer: He should eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM I 21, 235 (2)
Location: Trt Tartu 5. Kk
Date: 1988-9
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a drunkard get to the pub?
Answer: He eats the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM I 21, 256 (2)
Location: Trt Tartu 5. Kk
Date: 1988-9
Subject: white bread
Question:
Answer: A gammer and a gaffer, each on each side of the white bread
Archive reference: RKM II 118, 160 (11)
Location: Pde
Date: 1988
Subject: white bread
Question:
Answer: A gaffer on the one, a gammer on the other side of the white bread
Archive reference: RKM II 418, 126
Location: Pde
Date: 1988
Subject: white bread
Question: There is a big lake between a gammer and a gaffer, this lake is full of sharks. How can the gaffer get to the gammer?
Answer:
Archive reference: RKM II 418, 135
Location: Pde
Date: 1988
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a mother and a child get together?
Answer: They eat the apple.
Archive reference: RKM II 418, 43
Location: Pde
Date: 1988
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a man get to his friend?
Answer: He eats the chocolate
Archive reference: RKM II 418, 43
Location: Pde
Date: 1988
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a man get to a woman?
Answer: He eats the fried egg.
Archive reference: RKM II 418, 43
Location: Pde
Date: 1988
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a child get to her mother?
Answer: He eats the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM II 418, 42
Location: Pde
Date: 1988
Subject: white bread
Question: How can neighbours get to one other?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 25, 47 ja 50 (1)
Location: Vln Viljandi 1. Kk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: What does a man have to do to get across a lake, if boats are locked?
Answer: He has to eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 22, 286 (10)
Location: Prn Pärnu 2. Kk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can men get into boats?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: EFA I 1, 67
Location: Vlg Valga Gümn
Date: 1995
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a man get home?
Answer: He eats the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 17, 134 (6)
Location: Mär Märjamaa Kk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a gammer and a gaffer get to their cow, if it’s not allowed to go around the lake and it’s not allowed to ride a boat across the lake?
Answer: They eat through from the middle of the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 22, 81 (3)
Location: SJn Suure-Jaani Kk, 10. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can children get across a lake, if nobody but them are there, they can’t swim, boats are stuck in the middle of the lake and they can’t go around the lake?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 22, 222 (6)
Location: Prn Pärnu 2. Kk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can Jüri get to Mari, if it’s impossible to go around the lake and it’s impossible to go across, because boats are in the middle of the lake?
Answer: Jüri has to eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 22, 207 (5)
Location: Prn Pärnu 2. Kk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: A gaffer and a gammer went away from home for a year. When they came back, brushwood was growing everywhere. How can the gammer and the gaffer get home, if a lake has emerged there and there are sharks in the lake?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: EFA II 7, 213 (2)
Location: Tln Pääsküla Kk, 5. kl
Date: 1994
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a man and a woman get together?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 23, 475 (122)
Location: Kõp Kõpu Pk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a man and a woman get together? A lake separates them, on which there are three boats, but it’s not allowed to go around?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 11, 8 (F)
Location: Tln Tallinna 7. Kk, 9. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: A lake with three boats, in the middle there on the borders there are woods with wicked wolves. How can a man get home?
Answer: He eats the white bread, the lake with the boats make up the shape of the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 52, 22 (17)
Location: Vru TÜ 1. k
Date: 1993
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a son get to his father?
Answer: He eats the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 20, 352 (3)
Location: Han, Virtsu Virtsu Pk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can aborigines get across the river, if boats are in the middle of the river?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 10, 95 (5)
Location: Tln Tallinna 7. Kk, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: This is a river in the river there are crocodiles. How can a man get to the other shore?
Answer: This is white bread, he eats the white bread and gets to the other shore.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 16, 56 (1)
Location: Mär Märjamaa Kk, 5. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can boatmen get over a torrential river to the other shore?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 38, 688/9 (3)
Location: TMr Kõrveküla Pk, 9. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: On the one side of the shore there is a sheep on the other side there is a meadow. On the pond, all boats are in the middle of the pond. How can the sheep get to the other side of the shore?
Answer: It eats the white bread.
Archive reference: EFA II 7, 131 (5)
Location: Tln Pääsküla Kk, 5. kl
Date: 1994
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a man get home, if there is a lake between him and a house, and all boats have been pushed in the middle of the lake?
Answer: He eats the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 17, 356 (7)
Location: Mär Märjamaa Kk, 7. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: A boy wants to go to the other side of a shore, but can’t reach boats. What does he have to do to get across the lake?
Answer: He has to eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 19, 549 (6)
Location: Mär Märjamaa Kk, 11. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a boy and a girl get across a lake?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 34, 33 (6)
Location: Elv Nõo Reaalgümn, 8. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a man get across a lake, if boats are on the lake?
Answer: He eats through the middle of the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 19, 539 (22)
Location: Mär Märjamaa Kk, 11. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: A king is on the one side of an endless lake, a queen on the other side. They want to get together. Across the lake there are boats, but they are guarded by guardsmen, who don’t allow anyone to use them. What do the king and the queen have to do to get together?
Answer: They have to eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 11, 478/9 (1)
Location: Tln Tallinna 7. Kk, 9. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: There is a lake on the drawing. On the lake there are three boats. On the one side of the lake there is a man, on the other side a woman. How can the man get to the woman?
Answer: The man eats the white bread.
Archive reference: Kalmre 39
Location: 0
Date: 1995
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a gaffer get to a gammer in the most direct way?
Answer: He eats the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 14, 195 (1)
Location: TMr, Tammistu Haapsalu San Internaatk, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a man get across a lake to a woman?
Answer: He starts to eat the white bread from one end.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 34, 350 (14)
Location: Nõo Nõo Reaalgümn, 10. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can men reach boats?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 26, 467 (1)
Location: Vlg Valga 1. Kk, 6.a kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can men reach quickly one another?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 9, 40/1 (10)
Location: Tln Tallinna 7. Kk, 7.b kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a gammer get to a gaffer, if there is a lake between them, which one can’t get by and there are three sharks in the lake?
Answer: They eat the white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 18, 523/4 (11)
Location: Mär Märjamaa Kk, 10. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: On the one shore of a lake there is a woman and on the other side a man. Around the lake there grows an impenetrable thicket and in the lake three whales are guarding. How can the woman go to the man?
Answer: The woman eats the bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 24, 38 (2)
Location: Vil Viljandi 4. Kk, 10. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: How can a man get on a train in one minute, if a lake is in the middle and on the one side of the lake there is a wood (impenetrable) and on the other side a bog. In the middle of the lake there are three boats and it’s impossible to reach these it’s impossible to swim to the boats, because the water is cold?
Answer: This lake and the boats are white bread and the man eats a passage through the white bread and this is how he gets on the train.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 26, 424/5 (1)
Location: Vlg Valga 1. Kk, 6.a kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread
Question: A boy and a girl want to get together, but a lake separates them. They can’t swim. On the one side of the lake there is a witch’s house, and the witch doesn’t let anyone past. On the other side of the lake there is a swamp, where it’s also impossible to get through. In the middle of the lake there are three boats, but it’s impossible to reach them there. How can a boy
Answer: They eat the white bread. The lake with the boats make up a loaf of white bread.
Archive reference: RKM, KP 33, 148 (1)
Location: Nõo Nõo Reaalgümn, 6. kl
Date: 1992
Subject: white bread