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chasil • today at 12:24 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

The riddle was: "What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?".

Oedipus answered: "Man: as an infant, he crawls on all fours; as an adult, he walks on two legs and; in old age, he uses a walking stick".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_and_the_Sphinx