Fun logic riddle: how did 3 people in a room become 5?

Question

I have a riddle for the people who think they’re really good at this stuff 😂🧠

A man walks into a room and sees 3 people.

He walks out of the room.

When he comes back, there are 5 people inside.

Nobody entered the room while he was gone.

How is that possible? 🤔😂

No Googling. No asking ChatGPT. Let’s see who can actually figure it out.

And please explain your answer, because I already know somebody is going to give a completely ridiculous explanation 😂😂😆

What’s your answer?

goaded · Accepted Answer

"A man walks into a room and sees 3 people." Then there were 4 people in the room. "When he comes back, there are 5 people inside." Was he carrying a baby, or did one of the three give birth?

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

There are at least a couple of answers that work. Just because he doesn’t see everyone in the room the first time, that doesn’t mean that there weren’t more than three people there before.
Also, if someone walked into the room behind him the first time, he would not necessarily have seen them and been counted with the first three. If they stayed when he left and then he returns, he makes five total in the room.
These solutions aren’t as clever as riddle solutions usually are. So i’m sure neither is the solution you’re looking for. However, they are perfectly plausible.

purplepoppy · Answer

So far people are suggesting he originally didn't see the other people or someone gave birth. Both plausible but boring, plus babies aren't proper people.

Therefore the only logical explanation is there's a temporal overlap enabling the same person to occupy the same room twice.

Orion84 · Answer

Well, he obviously didn't see the two people giving blowjobs, the first time. When he came back, they had finished, and stood back up. It's the only logical answer.

Kaneki05 · Answer

Riddles often have more than one answer and don't make sense... It annoys me. Anyway so what clearly happened was one is actually 3 kids in a trench coat this time when he came back in they'd took it off thinking they were in the clear. So 2 adults and 3 kids therefore 5, unless he counts himself but then he should've seen 4 to begin with

andreasderjuengere · Answer

Option 1: he returned after quite a while, and meanwhile 2 women gave birth.

Option 2: 2 people were standing behind the others and could not be seen.

Option 3: The room is very large, and the 2 additional people were sitting (or similar) on a (distant) couch with a high backrest.

AviatorTom · Answer

He initially only saw 3 people because 2 of them were little kids hiding behind their mothers' dresses. When he came back, those two kids were out in the open, playing tag, and he saw all 5 people (3 adults, 2 kids) in the room.

exitseven · Answer

The man himself counts as a person but that only gets us to 4 I do not know whare the other one came from. Maybe a pregnant woman gives birth whil he was gone?

ohsheeT · Answer

When he walks back in he sees the three people and then he counts himself that's for as he's looking in the mirror that's five LOL

jennifer_bloom · Answer

His wife gave birth and he is the 5th person in the room.

Zack-Bann · Answer

If one gave birth to twins you would have 6 people in that room because you need to count the man himself.

Telekinetic-Potato · Answer

One of them changed their sexual identity to being 3 people. And this guy aknowledged it.

abc3643 · Answer

1. Pregnant woman gives birth to twins. 2. Mirrors properly aligned so that he sees the reflections of only 2 of the people and no one else.

SweetDripp · Answer

Some potential answers... Someone was hiding when he first entered the room or a pregnant woman in the room gave birth while he was gone.

Alex-Snow · Answer

I'm guessing that maybe some mirrors were added to the room?

glennos89 · Answer

1 of the people inside gave birth to twins in the period he was out of the room

Brady · Answer

The two came in through a door or window. Or they were behind something or in another room so he didn't see them.

Darkest-Knight · Answer

It was a hospital delivery room with 1 doctor, 1 nurse and the patient. When he came back the woman had given birth to twins.

shortster · Answer

A pregnant woman gave birth to twins. Probably a doctor and nurse were the other two people in the room.

fishbone77 · Answer

2 of the three were about to give birth, or one of the three was about to have twins

LiamJHayden · Answer

Someone delivered twins.

Siajanua2027 · Answer

Was everyone visible when he entered the room, and does he himself counts as one?

Anonymous · Answer

That's easy. Two of them had sex and one had twins.

Kvass · Answer

Don't know, I wasn't in the room

slatyb · Answer

Two babies were born. How hard is this?

DonaldDarko · Answer

Two of the people he didn't see only 3

MrChinaski · Answer

Two people were hiding in a cow suit.

_Jenny_ · Answer

@veronika_p The missing dollar?

rgb008 · Answer

asexual reproduction :3

Drumlin2001 · Answer

Someone gives birth to twins?

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Two of them were fucking behind the couch.

Shiprex · Answer

2 of the 3 were women and pregnant

zagor · Answer

It is a birthing room.

wkhan_87 · Answer

I am curious about the right answer

Anonymous · Answer

2 of the people were preggers.

cornelus · Answer

Hw walked into a maternity ward

MereAnarchy · Answer

dr, nurse, mother, twins

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

You lost me completely 😬

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