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Missing Fish - Solution

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Missing FishThe Puzzle: Two fathers took their sons fishing.

Each man and son caught one fish, but when they returned to camp there were only 3 fish. How could this be?

(None of the fish were eaten, lost, or thrown back.)


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The Solution . . .

There were only three people. The son, his father, and his grandfather.


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