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Explaining the giraffe riddle

Posted at 7:31 AM, Oct 29, 2013
and last updated 2013-10-29 09:31:10-04

(WTVR)– Perhaps you’ve taken notice that your Facebook friends have started changing their profile photos to a giraffe?

It turns out they haven’t been hacked. Instead they failed to solve a riddle that’s spreading like wildfire across Facebook. The honor code is that if you get the riddle wrong, you have to change your profile photo.

“It’s 3 a.m., the doorbell rings and you wake up. Unexpected visitors! It’s your parents and they are here for breakfast. You have strawberry jam, honey, wine, bread and cheese. What is the first thing you open?

To keep the viral game going, the one rule is that you must message your response to the poster, so as not to give the answer away in the comments. And if your answer is incorrect you must repost the riddle with the above instructions–after you change your profile photo to a giraffe.

Click here to see the answer and read more.