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nursery rhyme lyrics & origins
 
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Nursery Rhymes Lyrics and Origins

As I was going to St. Ives Rhyme

The riddle of the poem "As I was going to St. Ives"

 

The Only one assumption can be made in the Nursery Rhyme "As I was going to St. Ives" and that is that one person was definitely going there - or was it? It, of course, would depend on the direction of the people that were encountered on the way! This type of conundrum is now referred to as a logic problem in lateral thinking designed to improve the logic and deductive skills of children, and indeed, adults! (As I was going to St. Ives refers to the name of a quaint old village in Cornwall, England) Earliest traceable publication date is 1730.

The Answer to the Riddle - Only one man was going to St.Ives!
He met the following who were
going the other way:
A man (1) with 7 wives
7 x 7 (49) sacks
7x7x7 (343) cats
7x7x7x7 (2,401) kits
A Total of 2,801 wives, sacks cats and kits!

 
 
 
As I was going to St Ives Rhyme
 
 
 
 

Poem - As I was going to St. Ives

As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives,
Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits: kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?

Poem - As I was going to St. Ives

 

Note: A Rhymes lyrics and the perceived origins of some Nursery Rhymes vary according to location

 

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