An Odd Puzzle

[Palomino_m]

The original puzzle says:
What is the father doing now?
The mother is 21 years older than the son, and in 6 years time she will be 5 times as old as the son. What is the father doing now?
http://goo.gl/ufSkDC

After an easy calculation, you will find that the son's age is -3/4 , which means that he will be born in 9 months. So the parents are supposed to do something in this regard to make it happen.
I tried many phrases (over 30), but still unsuccessful. In the link above you can confirm your answer and check if it is correct.

please let me know if you have any suggestion.

[jim360]

I shouldn't worry about it. You've solved the puzzle, and looks to me like that's a site that's not very sophisticated at checking answers: you ever get it exactly matching what the given answer is down to the same characters, spacing etc or you're marked wrong. For the next puzzle I had an answer of 2665 (right) or 2 6 6 5 (wrong), even though the only difference is how to arrange them.

Basically any answer that amounts to "with the mother" is correct; if you can't read the question setter's mind perfectly to decide how to phrase that (delicately or explicitly?) then don't sweat it.

[pixie374]

Snoring...

[Prudie]

I've tried many proper and rude words for what he might be doing but none of them are correct.....

[Garaman]

'Making a baby' seemed to work.

[Cloverjo]

What a dumb puzzle. Babies don't pop out exactly 3/4 of a year after the act.

What is the next puzzle, Jim? I couldn't see it on the Palomino's link.

[Old_Geezer]

A three word answer ! That seems unwise.

[Old_Geezer]

You click the right arrow icon near the top.

[jim360]

http://geniusbrainteasers.com/what-winning-combination/332

[Cloverjo]

Thanks, O_G.

Jim, I had a different answer to you on the next puzzle, which was judged correct.

[jim360]

What different answer?

[Cloverjo]

Another flawed puzzle. Both mine and Jim's answers could be correct given the info.

[Cloverjo]

Spoiler alert!!!!!





6665

[jim360]

Oh yes. Ho hum. Not the best advert for a puzzle site in a world, is it?

[Palomino_m]

Thank you my friends.
There are some puzzles in that website that make you wonder what kind of answer is expected!
For example, can you find the answer of these:
http://geniusbrainteasers.com/Can-you-decrypt-hidden-message/2480
http://geniusbrainteasers.com/decrypt-map/581

[Ninnynanny]

"The same as he was doing yesterday"

[Old_Geezer]

Re the other two, seems to me one needs experience of similar past puzzles to even get a grip on how to start.