You may have heard this riddle poem before. It's very famous, although we no longer know who wrote it. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives? Now, I'm going to spoil the answer for you. The answer is one. We only know that the original person is going to St Ives but we don't know where the rest of them are going. It's tricksy isn't it? It is designed to catch you out!
These questions are not tricksy though... 1. How many living things are in the poem? 2. How many legs are in the poem? 3. If a sack costs £1.12, how much money has been spent on sacks? 4. How many felines (cats/kits) are in the poem? 5. If each cat and each kit eats seven tins of cat food, how many tins of cat food are eaten altogether? 6. How many vowels (A, E, I, O, U) are in the poem? 7. Write your own poem in the style of "As I was going to St Ives" and ask your own questions for a friend to solve.
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