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As classicists point out, those video games update the ancient Greek legend of Oedipus and the sphinx. The sphinx devoured anyone who couldn’t answer her riddle: “What is it that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?”
Excerpted from page number 10 of ‘How Would You Move Mount Fuji?’ by William Poundstone.