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Sandy Wood
Brain Game: The Royal Family
by Sandy Wood - September 24, 2008 - 6:30 AM

THE ANSWER:

The messenger had mistakenly told the king that “the queen and the princes are doing fine.” He meant to say that “the queen and the princess are doing fine.”

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  1. Or, the messenger conveyed that the queen had given birth to Alex and Ra instead of Alexandra.

    posted by Mean Joe on 9-24-2008 at 7:36 am

  2. Or the messenger said “princess” but the King, of a patrilineal monarchy, heard “prince” because that’s what he really wanted.

    posted by Amy D on 9-24-2008 at 7:47 am

  3. I share the brain games with my husband each day, because he needs help staying awake during boring meetings.

    His initial response to this one:

    Obviously the two boys were abducted by aliens and replaced with a female-alien-human hybrid for the purpose of colonizing the kingdom.

    posted by Suzanne on 9-24-2008 at 8:46 am

  4. Heh. I thought it was b/c he took, like, a year to sign the treaty & when he got back, she had another child (who looked like the messenger). That’s how my brain works.

    posted by Eden on 9-24-2008 at 9:28 am

  5. Or maybe his queen had twin boys but they weren’t his, and he had a mistress that gave birth to a daughter? Royalty aren’t well known for their fidelity.

    posted by Jennings on 9-24-2008 at 10:43 am

  6. I thought it was going to be that the messenger was a woman, and it was her (not the queen) she was talking about that gave birth to the twin boys:

    “A messenger arrived with the news that she’d given birth to twin boys”

    and the king just misunderstood.

    posted by Andy on 9-24-2008 at 11:20 am

  7. Darn!! I was thinking triplets! Twin boys and a fraternal girl

    posted by Sue on 9-24-2008 at 12:59 pm

  8. It’s obviously because the messenger was hepped on goofballs at the time.

    posted by Ryan on 9-24-2008 at 4:22 pm

  9. The king was a woman-hater?

    posted by Orange on 9-24-2008 at 4:34 pm

  10. Messenger FAIL. lolzx

    posted by Money on 9-24-2008 at 4:49 pm

  11. Obviously, it was one of those massive ten-nation treaties, and the messenger simply passed along the right message, but to the wrong king.

    posted by Mark on 9-25-2008 at 5:19 am

  12. I figured the King didn’t sign the treaty because his two new male heirs somehow changed things… when he got back and found out the messenger had lied he realized the messenger had sabotaged the treaty-signing, so he killed the messenger.

    posted by zippy on 9-25-2008 at 10:39 am

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