Those who watched the film "Interns" probably laughed merrily at the slow-witted Phil when the American was surprised at Russian riddles. Or rather, guess them. Why can only spruce be “one color in winter and summer” when the correct answer is blood, a fence, eyes, and much more? But he had not yet heard the riddle "Without hands, without an ax, a hut was built." I wonder what answer Phil would find to her?

Riddles for children in verse

Meanwhile, in addition to the riddle “Without hands, without an ax, a hut was built”, on which you can pick up a large number of Answers, there are many others, no less interesting. For example:

1. Behind the tree is a hillock, an insect town. (Anthill)
2. A wooden path leads up, but if the leg gets between the steps, then the person walking will certainly fall. (Stairs)
3. I have a roof with a handle, look!

It will save us all from the rain, come on!

The rain will end - I'll lay down the roof,

Instead of a cane, I have it. (Umbrella)

These Russian riddles give a fairly transparent description of the subject, which serves as the correct answer. And often in poetic lines the answer is hidden at the very end, prompted by rhyme. For example:

"Clap!" - from candy, like from a cannon

You will hear a shot, because it is ... (clapperboard).

One riddle, and answers - the sea

But let's get back to our many-valued riddle, which sounds like this: "Without hands, without an ax, a hut was built." An interesting fact is that even people who grew up in Russia do not always answer it correctly.

For example, some believe that it is a cucumber or melon. And in principle, they can be understood if we recall the riddle about the upper room, which is full of people, but there are no doors or windows. If we reason from this position, knowing that this "room" means a vegetable, then it is quite possible to take the same cucumber (or melon) as an answer to our riddle. After all, the upper room, which, in fact, is a room in a hut, was “built” without an ax - the plant grew and bore fruit on its own.

Others are inclined to believe that this is a cave, an anthill, a beaver's hut or a fox's hole. And here it is difficult to argue with their logic - all these dwellings for living beings were built without the use of axes and human hands.

Correct answer

However, the correct answer would be "nest". Why exactly a nest, and not a hole or an anthill, because there is a parallel in the logical chain of answers? Yes, simply because the one who composed this riddle decided so! Although one can argue, because modern nests for poultry are built by people, using not only wood and an ax, but also casting them from plastic. But the anthill, it seems, people themselves did not try to build ... And even if they tried, then they definitely did not take an ax to help themselves.

As if in mockery of this state of affairs, today witty writers come up with their riddles with answers that are difficult to understand. “Slippery, wet, hanging on the wall,” such an eccentric thinks. And after everyone "surrenders", sorting through a lot of various items, they proudly declare that this is a herring. To the indignant question why the herring is hanging on the wall, the merry fellow retorts: “My herring, wherever I want, I’ll hang it there!”

So in this riddle: you can pick up more than one answer, and only one will be recognized as correct - the nest. And why exactly the nest is accepted as the only correct answer - this is already a question for the one who was its writer.

A hut was built without hands, without an ax (riddle)

Animal brood

Group of single-root words

Group of closely growing mushrooms

Place of habitation, laying of eggs, breeding of cubs in birds, insects, reptiles

A building arranged by animals for breeding

bird braid

At canine hunters: a place where a she-wolf tosses her cubs

Penates of birds

Good living space at bird's eye view

Cell in the cartridge belt for a unitary cartridge

Place of habitation and laying of eggs by birds

The play of the Russian playwright V. S. Rozov "... capercaillie"

. “no bird in its ... does not crap” (last)

Swallow...

Vsevolod III bore the nickname Big...

. “without hands, without an ax, a hut was built” (riddle)

The most common bird house

. "noble..."

Part of a machine gun borrowed from birds

Both machine gun and capercaillie

House at bird's eye view

. "maternity hospital" of chicks

cuckoo house

Twisted house

bird dwelling

Bird weaving on wood

Connector for TV equipment

Wicker bird housing

Common to birds and Turgenev's nobility

. "Basket" for bird masonry

Hatched "basket" of a bird

That the vulture builds on the rock

It has a bird incubating its eggs.

Bird "father's house"

bird family

rat house

Bird house

Swallow...- consists of earth and clay

Where does the bird hatch chicks?

Dwelling and place for laying eggs in insects, birds

A building arranged by animals for breeding

Place of habitation and laying of eggs in birds, insects

hiding place for something

Group of single-root words

Maternity home for chicks

. "Noble..."

. "Basket" for bird masonry

. "Maternity hospital" of chicks

. "without hands, without an ax, a hut was built" (riddle)

. "no bird in his ... does not crap" (last)

Where the bird hatches chicks

Hatched "bast basket" of a bird

Bird house

Bird "father's house"

The play of the Russian playwright V. S. Rozov "... capercaillie"

Wed various kinds of premises or places where animals bring their young. Wolf's nest, snake, nightingale; hornet's nest, bumblebee. The animal nest is also called a den, a brood, a bear's lair; nest in a tree, such as marten, squirrel: gaino, gaino; mouse: bush; bee nest, cells in honeycombs, filled not with honey, but with worms, offspring. The nest is intact, but the birds have flown away. All in places, like nightingales in their nests. put the old nest on the rack, do not hammer the new one. the nest is on the oak tree, but the power is on the ground. in its nest, and a crow will peck out the eyes of a kite. Bor was burned, and the nightingale is crying over the nest. Death has already made a nest in him. No magpie shits in its nest. That bird is stupid, which does not like its nest. laziness made a nest in his bosom. Profit with an overlay of one nest chicks. Not praise the falcon that beats on the nest. Neither in the hut, nor in the yard, a nightingale's nest? creaky door heel. On the Annunciation, the bird does not build a nest (does not curl), but curls, this is done on foot for the whole summer. A cuckoo without a nest, for curling it on the Annunciation. Dwelling, dwelling of every kind; haunt, haven, haunt, settlement. This village is a thieves' nest. He moved or built a nest in a foreign land (y). A family. me a gang nest. A nest of huts, standing next to each other, right up to the attached two huts. Our huts are a nest. Ore in a nest, nests, separate accumulations, not continuous layers and not veins. Nest, in beekeepers, a place in the hive where the swarm usually sits in a heap, more at the head of the hive. Ready hive with nauz, for planting a swarm. Spectacle nest, nauz with honey, not with one foundation, for a young swarm. A nest of something. brood, family; pair, deuce, yatra. Dove nest; butterflies nest; ruble nest; sawfly nest; couple, couple. Nest of arrows, old. pair? full quiver? Tailor's nest kaz. couple, shirt with ports. A depression, a pit, a depression where something is inserted or inserted end-to-end. The pebble is inserted into the box, into the nest. Hollow out the socket for the rack. The shaft axis is inserted into the socket. A depression, a pit, a hole into which melt is released at smelters, for casting pigs, bayonets, screams, etc. An outlet socket where melt is released; gravity, where it drains itself, as it is smelted. Whirlwind nest, bundle, clod of thin branches on a birch, from the foray of a circular whirlwind; plant Viscum, mistletoe? Vinegar nest, thick acetic fermentation, for sourdough. Duck's nest, the constellation of the Pleiades, Stozhary, Volosozhary. Duck nests, plants. Anchusa officinalis, bugglaz, ophthalmosa, boletus, bullock, scapular, blush, red root. Nest nest, i.e. holes, pits for inserting something. bugle gert, gornovina. Nesting, related to the nest, belonging to it, forming a nest, etc. Nesting feather, architect. bargain. low analysis of down, in half with feathers, partly from nests; it's half fluff. Nested ore, lying in nests, not in layers. Nesting, pertaining to the nest. Nested sowing. bushy, thick, leafy; potatoes, productive. terrain: rich in nests, e.g. bird, ore, etc. Nested, lying in nests. Nest-like, nest-like, nest-like. Nest, nest or nest m. a bird taken out of a nest, about birds of prey, to distinguish it from a savage borne by an old one. Nest, who else is sitting in the nest, at home, or who is nesting. Nesting, nesting, pertaining to the nest. Nesting place, a place chosen, chosen for a nest, a gaynishka. Nest, twist, build or make a nest; settle down, take shelter, choose a haven; esp. used with prepositions at, at. nest cf. a place where someone or something nests: a shelter, a den. Nest arch. void in the brain. Nesting, nesting cf. nest building by birds. Nesting moth, better nest moth from Phalaena Tortrix nightlights. Nest spruce, Ph. Trt. hercyniana. Nest (s) m. who gets it, rips out bird nests. Nesting, pertaining to pulling out nests

WHOSE HOUSE IS BETTER?

MYSTERY

• “Without hands, without a hatchet, a hut was built”

• What's this?

VITALY BIANKI

• WHO

• BETTER

• ALL?

• Let's think about it together with V. Bianchi.

The guys argued about the nests.

• The eagle has the largest nest. It is made of thick boughs and is placed on a huge thick pine.

The SMALLEST NEST at the kinglet. His whole house is the size of a fist, and he himself is smaller than a dragonfly.

The most SMART house at the mole. He has so many emergency passages and exits that you can’t cover him in any way in his underground hole

• Various types of burrows

• cutaway

.

• MOST

• ARTISTIC leaflet elephant's house

• This beetle gnawed through a birch leaf exactly on cycloid

• And glued it with saliva into a neat tube.

• The female laid her eggs in this tubular house.

The simplest nests at the pie-tie and ....

• Kulichok laid his four eggs right on the sand on the bank of the river

...and nightjar nightjar. He put the eggs in a hole in the dry leaves under the tree.

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HOUSE at the chiffchaff

• She made a nest for herself on a birch branch, cleaned it with lichen and a light birch peel ...

The coziest nest in the long-tailed tit

• It is twisted inside from fluff, feathers and hairs, and outside - from moss and lichens. It is all round, and the entrance to it is small.

The most comfortable houses for caddisfly larvae

• From grains of sand and reeds, he will glue a tube for himself, climb into it with his back. If he wants, he will completely hide, if he wants, he will stick out his front legs and crawl along the bottom along with the house.

• And one caddis flier found a cigarette, climbed into it and travels in it.

The most amazing house at the silver water spider

• This spider stretched a web under water between algae, and dragged air under the web on a shaggy belly. So he lives in a house with a bubble from the air.

Rybka stickleback viet nest with his mouth and stick together with his mucus. Then the baby male bravely guards the eggs and protects the fry.

Read these books by V. Bianki.

Quiz

• Who else builds a similar spherical nest with a small entrance?
• A) forty
• B) stickleback
• B) king
• D) chiffchaff
• D) long-tailed tit
• E) leaf-rolling elephant
• G) caddis

WHAT EGGS LAYED ON THE GROUND.

• What other bird

• doesn't build nests?

• A) cuckoo

• B) tie-tie

• B) sparrow

• D) crow

• D) dove

• E) swallow

• G) jackdaw

There are two types of swallows

• Nest of country and city swallows

• And shore swallows build nests in burrows on river cliffs.

In the ecological tale of V. Bianchi "Forest Houses", the swallow Beregovushka asked for a lodging for the night:

• a) to the sandpiper

• b) to the twining dove

• c) to wasps

• d) to the oriole

• d) to the foam

• f) to grebe

• g) to protein

• Guess them on the following slides:

• Guess whose this egg laying?

This bird nests on young fir trees, sometimes in a bush at a height of 1-3 m from the ground, rarely higher.

• GUESS who lives here?

Construction material nests. The nest is made from dry stems of herbaceous plants, thin woody twigs, rootlets, lichens and moss. From the inside, the walls and base of the nest are sometimes fastened together and smoothly plastered with clay mixed with wood dust. During construction, the bird moistens this mixture with sticky saliva. This "plaster" is also characteristic of the blackbird. But the nest of the song thrush is different in that it does not have any litter and the eggs lie on bare "plaster". The fieldfare thrush has no clay coating.

2.Measure diameter, height, depth

The shape and size of the nest. Like other thrushes, it is cup-shaped. Nest diameter 100-180 mm, nest height 80-115 mm, tray diameter 90-110 mm, tray depth 60-75 mm, wall thickness 20-30 mm, bottom thickness 20-50 mm. Masonry features. Clutch of 4-7 bright blue eggs with occasional black and white dots (other thrush species have greenish eggs and denser mottling). Egg sizes: (25-30) x (19-22) mm.

• Make a conclusion: Which thrush nest did you investigate?

The nest of grebes swims at the will of the wind

“without hands, without an ax, a hut was built” (riddle)

A hut was built without hands, without an ax (riddle)

Animal brood

Group of single-root words

Group of closely growing mushrooms

Place of habitation, laying of eggs, breeding of cubs in birds, insects, reptiles

A building arranged by animals for breeding

bird braid

At canine hunters: a place where a she-wolf tosses her cubs

Penates of birds

Good living space at bird's eye view

Cell in the cartridge belt for a unitary cartridge

Place of habitation and laying of eggs by birds

The play of the Russian playwright V. S. Rozov "... capercaillie"

. “no bird in its ... does not crap” (last)

Swallow...

Vsevolod III bore the nickname Big...

The most common bird house

. "noble..."

Part of a machine gun borrowed from birds

Both machine gun and capercaillie

House at bird's eye view

. "maternity hospital" of chicks

cuckoo house

Twisted house

bird dwelling

Bird weaving on wood

Connector for TV equipment

Wicker bird housing

Common to birds and Turgenev's nobility

. "Basket" for bird masonry

Hatched "basket" of a bird

That the vulture builds on the rock

It has a bird incubating its eggs.

Bird "father's house"

bird family

rat house

Bird house

Swallow...- consists of earth and clay

Where does the bird hatch chicks?

Dwelling and place for laying eggs in insects, birds

A building arranged by animals for breeding

Place of habitation and laying of eggs in birds, insects

hiding place for something

Group of single-root words

Maternity home for chicks

. "Noble..."

. "Basket" for bird masonry

. "Maternity hospital" of chicks

. "without hands, without an ax, a hut was built" (riddle)

. "no bird in his ... does not crap" (last)

Where the bird hatches chicks

Hatched "bast basket" of a bird

Bird house

Bird "father's house"

The play of the Russian playwright V. S. Rozov "... capercaillie"

Wed various kinds of premises or places where animals bring their young. Wolf's nest, snake, nightingale; hornet's nest, bumblebee. The animal nest is also called a den, a brood, a bear's lair; nest in a tree, such as marten, squirrel: gaino, gaino; mouse: bush; bee nest, cells in honeycombs, filled not with honey, but with worms, offspring. The nest is intact, but the birds have flown away. All in places, like nightingales in their nests. put the old nest on the rack, do not hammer the new one. the nest is on the oak tree, but the power is on the ground. in its nest, and a crow will peck out the eyes of a kite. Bor was burned, and the nightingale is crying over the nest. Death has already made a nest in him. No magpie shits in its nest. That bird is stupid, which does not like its nest. laziness made a nest in his bosom. Profit with an overlay of one nest chicks. Not praise the falcon that beats on the nest. Neither in the hut, nor in the yard, a nightingale's nest? creaky door heel. On the Annunciation, the bird does not build a nest (does not curl), but curls, this is done on foot for the whole summer. A cuckoo without a nest, for curling it on the Annunciation. Dwelling, dwelling of every kind; haunt, haven, haunt, settlement. This village is a thieves' nest. He moved or built a nest in a foreign land (y). A family. me a gang nest. A nest of huts, standing next to each other, right up to the attached two huts. Our huts are a nest. Ore in a nest, nests, separate accumulations, not continuous layers and not veins. Nest, in beekeepers, a place in the hive where the swarm usually sits in a heap, more at the head of the hive. Ready hive with nauz, for planting a swarm. Spectacle nest, nauz with honey, not with one foundation, for a young swarm. A nest of something. brood, family; pair, deuce, yatra. Dove nest; butterflies nest; ruble nest; sawfly nest; couple, couple. Nest of arrows, old. pair? full quiver? Tailor's nest kaz. couple, shirt with ports. A depression, a pit, a depression where something is inserted or inserted end-to-end. The pebble is inserted into the box, into the nest. Hollow out the socket for the rack. The shaft axis is inserted into the socket. A depression, a pit, a hole into which melt is released at smelters, for casting pigs, bayonets, screams, etc. An outlet socket where melt is released; gravity, where it drains itself, as it is smelted. Whirlwind nest, bundle, clod of thin branches on a birch, from the foray of a circular whirlwind; plant Viscum, mistletoe? Vinegar nest, thick acetic fermentation, for sourdough. Duck's nest, the constellation of the Pleiades, Stozhary, Volosozhary. Duck nests, plants. Anchusa officinalis, bugglaz, ophthalmosa, boletus, bullock, scapular, blush, red root. Nest nest, i.e. holes, pits for inserting something. bugle gert, gornovina. Nesting, related to the nest, belonging to it, forming a nest, etc. Nesting feather, architect. bargain. low analysis of down, in half with feathers, partly from nests; it's half fluff. Nested ore, lying in nests, not in layers. Nesting, pertaining to the nest. Nested sowing. bushy, thick, leafy; potatoes, productive. terrain: rich in nests, e.g. bird, ore, etc. Nested, lying in nests. Nest-like, nest-like, nest-like. Nest, nest or nest m. a bird taken out of a nest, about birds of prey, to distinguish it from a savage borne by an old one. Nest, who else is sitting in the nest, at home, or who is nesting. Nesting, nesting, pertaining to the nest. Nesting place, a place chosen, chosen for a nest, a gaynishka. Nest, twist, build or make a nest; settle down, take shelter, choose a haven; esp. used with prepositions at, at. nest cf. a place where someone or something nests: a shelter, a den. Nest arch. void in the brain. Nesting, nesting cf. nest building by birds. Nesting moth, better nest moth from Phalaena Tortrix nightlights. Nest spruce, Ph. Trt. hercyniana. Nest (s) m. who gets it, rips out bird nests. Nesting, pertaining to pulling out nests

In those ancient centuries, when Russian sayings and children's riddles were composed, people for the most part thought in much more chaste categories. It would never have occurred to anyone to look for Freudian associations in the question of a woman standing on the floor who opened a hole, it was already clear to all adults that it was a stove, but the children should have racked their brains, and even then not for long. Just as simple was the riddle about what kind of object it was - without arms, without legs for a woman lope.

Children's riddle

Today, plumbing is a common thing. And if you need to go to the well somewhere in the countryside, then they usually do without a rocker. Two buckets is a considerable weight, and usually a man is sent for water. It is now. But a hundred or more years ago, the yoke still served as an addition to the female image, the peasant was usually not depicted with him in the pictures, and there are no such photographs. But how gracefully our great-grandmothers knew how to handle it! Excellent posture, light and graceful gait, in comparison with which all the attempts of current models on the catwalk look simply ridiculous, demonstrated real Russian beauty in motion. The women themselves, however, were then called differently, but for some reason they were not offended. So, what is hidden behind the charade "no arms, no legs for a woman lope" is an ordinary rocker. Although in fact it is not such a simple subject.

Rocker device

At first glance, there is nothing complicated in this. Two vessels are simultaneously worn by women on the shoulder in different countries, but in Russia the yoke became a utensil, in the manufacture of which the creative inclinations of the master were manifested. In addition to utilitarian properties (balance, smoothness, strength), it also had to be beautiful. It was often covered with intricate carvings, and special types of wood were chosen for manufacturing (usually beech, hazel, birch or maple). Ergonomic qualities were also considered important, unlike their European counterparts (usually round), Russian samples are oval in cross section, which distributes the load more correctly. In general, the requirements were such that the instrument itself asked for a shoulder. That's right: without arms, without legs - lope on a woman.

Other riddles, other answers

About the yoke, the people came up with other riddles. It has been compared to a bridge between the seas. It was likened to female logic, the same two-sided and somewhat curvilinear. The expression "yoke smoke" is used today as a symbol of unbridled revelry. But about the jumping armless and legless object in the post-war years, a new riddle for children and adults appeared. And her answer was not funny at all.

Some (and very many) returning home front-line soldiers were deficient in limbs. There were not enough men in the country. Yesterday's soldiers were crippled, but young and sometimes very temperamental. The fate of the disabled has become the subject of wonderful films. In life, sharp-tongued women sometimes called them that: “Without arms, without legs, for a woman, lope.” With humor peculiar to our people, though sometimes very bitter.