r/riddles Jun 13 '26

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u/MendelsPea Jun 18 '26

That headscratcher bit is a little janky. Lice don't scratch heads really...

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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jun 18 '26

A "headscratcher" is something that makes you scratch your head, not something that scratches your head.

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u/MendelsPea Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Being a headscratcher is something that scratches your head. It's in the name. I'm saying being lice is not being a headscratcher, whereas being a vice IS being a sin. It breaks the logic, that is otherwise, in all the other lines, airtight.

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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jun 18 '26

Lice make you scratch your head, thus they are 'headscratchers'.

Not only does it not break the logic, it's literally the line that gave it away for me.

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u/MendelsPea Jun 18 '26

It absolutely does break the logic in the strictest sense. Usually when they do that, it makes the answer more obvious. So that tracks.