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A riddle:

A hunter sets out from his hut and walks 10 km south. He sees a bear and chased it 20 km west until he caught and killed it. He then carried the carcass on his back and walks 10 km north back to his hut.
What was the bear's colour?

>> No.3251153

white! polar bear north pole

>> No.3251156

There aren't any polar bears that far north.

>> No.3251159

>>3251153
No, see, the hunter WAS the bear
He was hunting the most dangerous game of all: Himself

>> No.3251163

Considering how easily it was for him to spot it and given the fact that it ran 20km and assuming that he was in a forest I would say he lived in canada and the bear was a white grizzly bear.

>> No.3251168

>>3251153

>> No.3251170

>>3251147
He has to walk more than 10km back to his house.

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3251177

>>3251170

>> No.3251180

>>3251170
Not if he lives on the north-pole...

>> No.3251193

>>3251180
So he's a polar bear than, and th ebear is white.

>> No.3251195

>>3251170
not necessarily, he could have walked 10km south down a steep slope 20 km west up a shallow slope then 10km back to his hut on flat land

>> No.3251214

>>3251195
the last leg of his journey was 10 km north

extension:
find at least 2 other points on earth where this is possible (forget the bear)

>> No.3251237

>>3251214
north pole, south pole, center of earth.

>> No.3251241

>only way this can work is if he was walking around in a giant sphere.
>he was walking around in a giant sphere
>managed this via flymod
>minecraft.
bear was therefore brown.

>> No.3251247

>>3251241
it was already explained.

>>3251193
>>3251180