Since I won't be at work tomorrow ...
Feb. 13th, 2004 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sinjunHere's tomorrow's puzzle early. (You'll have to wait until Monday though, to get the next one.)
Family Tree.
Ryan's mother is an only child. In the grocery store, she met her husband's only sister's mother's only son.
What relation is this person to Ryan?
Family Tree.
Ryan's mother is an only child. In the grocery store, she met her husband's only sister's mother's only son.
What relation is this person to Ryan?
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Date: 2004-02-13 02:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-13 02:29 pm (UTC)Shhh - don't tell anyone! you got it right!
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Date: 2004-02-13 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-13 02:29 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-13 02:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-13 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-13 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-14 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-14 03:56 am (UTC)Her husband and his sister might have the same father, but different mothers, in which case the sister's mother's son wouldn't be the husband. If the sister's mother's son had the same father as the husband, he would be the husband's half-brother, and thus Ryan's uncle. If it was a different father, then, uhh, I don't think there'd be any blood relation, but the odds are Ryan would call him 'uncle' anyway.
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Date: 2004-02-14 07:41 am (UTC)That would technically make it "her husband's only half-sister's mother's only son."
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Date: 2004-02-14 07:53 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-16 04:45 am (UTC)This being so, there are two answers logically.
1.) Father
2.) Half Cousin
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Date: 2004-02-16 04:48 am (UTC)My brother is indeed only sharing one parent with me biologically, he is still fully my brother. I'd never think to add the term 'half' in front of the word.