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What Walks on Four Legs at Dawn, Two at Noon, Three at Dusk?
What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening? What is it?
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What is the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx?
The answer is a human. We crawl on four legs as a baby (morning), walk on two as an adult (noon), and lean on a cane as a third leg in old age (evening).
Why are the times of day used in the riddle?
Morning, noon, and evening are a metaphor for the stages of life: infancy, adulthood, and old age.
Where does the Riddle of the Sphinx come from?
It comes from Greek mythology, where the Sphinx posed it to travelers near Thebes, and the hero Oedipus famously solved it.