{"id":80764,"date":"2014-12-11T17:03:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T22:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=80764"},"modified":"2014-12-11T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T22:03:53","slug":"the-answers-to-walter-benjamins-riddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/the-answers-to-walter-benjamins-riddles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Answers to Walter Benjamin\u2019s Riddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/animatedquestionmark.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-80770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/animatedquestionmark.gif\" alt=\"animatedquestionmark\" width=\"600\" height=\"521\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, we published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/04\/a-crazy-mixed-up-day-thirty-brainteasers\/\" target=\"_blank\">a transcript of one of Walter Benjamin\u2019s radio broadcasts for children<\/a> from 1932. It had thirty brainteasers in it. Here are the answers: <!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>His equal.<\/li>\n<li>If the barber were serious about his offer, he wouldn\u2019t have made a permanent sign out of enamel, because \u201ctomorrow,\u201d when shaves are free, will never come.<\/li>\n<li>The two rings are of equal width.\u2028<\/li>\n<li>The pendulum passes through the middle twenty times.\u2028<\/li>\n<li>The man was born on February 29.\u2028<\/li>\n<li>Calculate: 999+1=1,000; 998+2=1,000; 997+3=1,000; there are 500 such pairs. Then all that\u2019s left is 1,000 at the high end, and 0 at the low end; so adding 1,000 to 500,000 gives a total of 501,000. Using the same method, the numbers from 1 to 10 add up to 60. [<em>Benjamin has made a mistake here. There are only 499 number pairs adding up to 1,000, giving a subtotal of 499,000. Adding the two remaining numbers, 1,000 and 500, gives a correct total of 500,500. Correspondingly, the sum of the numbers between 1 and 10 is 55. Benjamin\u2019s mistake was corrected in a later broadcast.<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li>Three colors are needed: one for the country in the middle, one for the two countries above and below the one in the middle, and a third color for the two countries to the left and the right of the one in the middle.<\/li>\n<li>Hay.<\/li>\n<li>99 9\/9.<\/li>\n<li>B.<\/li>\n<li>The flower that was not there overnight is the one with no dew on it.<\/li>\n<li>The bookworm needs only a moment to get from the first page of the first book to the last page of the second, because in a properly arranged library, the first page of the first book is right up against the last page of the second.<\/li>\n<li>Inserting the letters \u201cdu\u201d into the middle of the German word for \u201cmoney\u201d [Geld] spells the German word for \u201cpatience\u201d [Geduld]. 14. The first piece of cake, which he did not pay for, does not belong to him, so he should neither eat it nor exchange it for the second piece.<\/li>\n<li>His equal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And here\u2019s the list of fifteen mistakes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Heinz realizes that summer daylight saving has just begun and sets his watch back one hour. He should set it one hour forward.<\/li>\n<li>If the barbershop is just around the corner and it would take him as long as three minutes to get there, it would be impossible for him to see it.<\/li>\n<li>If Heinz is cut on his right side, the wound will be on the left side of his reflection.<\/li>\n<li>Nineteen marks cannot be disbursed in five-mark notes.<\/li>\n<li>Five groschen and twenty five-pfennig coins equals 1.50 marks. Heinz should have received only ninety pfennig in addition to the nineteen marks, because he gave the barber twenty marks for a shave that cost ten pfennig. [<em>There were ten pfennig in one groschen, and 100 pfennig in one mark.<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li>If the barber, the pharmacist\u2019s twin brother, is a young man, then the pharmacist cannot be an old man.<\/li>\n<li>A window cannot be closed from the outside.<\/li>\n<li>Even if he is dead, a man has only one skull, not two.<\/li>\n<li>One could not yet take photographs in the time of Frederick the Great.<\/li>\n<li>A bladeless knife missing its handle is simply not there.<\/li>\n<li>Someone with a corner seat cannot have neighbors to the right and the left.<\/li>\n<li>If Anton\u2019s housekeeper is deaf and alone in the apartment, she wouldn\u2019t know to open the door after Heinz rings the bell.<\/li>\n<li>If someone lives on the sixth floor, a two-story building cannot block his view and he cannot see the faces of passersby.<\/li>\n<li>If the train station clock reads 14:00, it\u2019s 2 pm, not 4 pm.<\/li>\n<li>The crescent of a waxing moon looks like the start of a German uppercase \u201cA,\u201d not \u201cZ.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/radio-benjamin_rgb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-80501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/radio-benjamin_rgb.jpg\" alt=\"Radio Benjamin_RGB\" width=\"150\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/radio-benjamin_rgb.jpg 1875w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/radio-benjamin_rgb-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/radio-benjamin_rgb-673x1024.jpg 673w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>Did you get all of them? Good on you! Pat yourself on the back\u2014you\u2019ve successfully passed a test designed for the German children of the 1930s!<\/p>\n<p><em>These <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/04\/a-crazy-mixed-up-day-thirty-brainteasers\/\" target=\"_blank\">riddles<\/a> appears in <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/1720-radio-benjamin\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Benjamin<\/a><em>, available now. Reprinted<\/em> <em>with the permission of Verso Books.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we published a transcript of one of Walter Benjamin\u2019s radio broadcasts for children from 1932. It had thirty brainteasers in it. 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