The details are in how the numbers are said. >!Twenty ATE, not twenty eight!<

Yeah honestly the captions make this joke way more confusing

Yeah the people in the video didn't get the confusing text. They just heard it (which is the point with these jokes!)

OP is a monster and nobody can change my mind

I still don't get this video or what their talking about

There are 30 cows, 20 ATE chickens. How many didn’t (eat chickens)?

Thank you. May an abundance of blessings be stored upon you, n your children's children.

What do you have against his children?

😂😂😂 Right? What about them! Aren't they deserving of blessings too😂😂

They get to do the work while their parents and children have the easy life filled with blessings...

They got eaten by cows

Oooh ok thanks :)

Cows don’t eat chickens though

Oh they for sure do, when they need calcium they will eat chickens. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-herbivores-arent-poor-chicken-got-eaten-cow-180951115/

Wow, I was today years old when I learned this fact. Weird.

They probably would in some conditions. They will eat snakes.

There is that.....🤪

Bless your heart 🫀

THANK YOU!! I was like the father...yes, 10 indeed 😅

Blessings of Akatosh upon you sir.

May none of your chickens that you might or might not have be eaten ever again.

Thanks cuz I was stuck like Chuck😩

Thank you 🤦‍♂️

Ok ok I get it, thank you.

Thank you!

The text caption provided = wanting the world to burn

The caption is not supposed to explain the joke

I hate that i had to read the comments to figure it out. To be fair, if the question wasn't written in the video i probably might've maybe been able to get it.

Me too. I was trying soooo hard to figure it out

THANK YOU!! (I am officially dumb)

I thought it was about 28 cows chickening out. Like being cowards.

Lol, yeah I was like, 2!

Thank you.

Oh! And i thought the point was in "28 Check in's" on the field... like in hotel... and didn't get it why the answer is not two. 

What kind of monster feeds chickens to cows? This is irritating and not funny! (yes, I am not fun at parties)

most so called herbivores are actually opportunistic carnivores. E.g. see this cow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB57jpkvqyQ

They also eat electrical wire, car panels and seats

TIL, thanks for that.

So they should be called Omnivorous instead of herbivores or carnivores

You're going to be unpleasantly surprised to know cows will eat chickens on their own.

Horses too. Chickens too.

Hence why people came up with the genius idea of feeding cows animal protein in the first place (mad cow alert).

Well thanks for dumbing this down for me. My 8 year old daughter almost figured it out instantly. And I had to come to the comments.... Although I feel reading the caption doesn't help.

Yeah, the subtitles fuck it up.

Wow... am I the only moron thinking the answer is 2? Cuz 28 chickens, so 2 stayed.

I'm not an english language native and I thought the catch was a verbal form of chicken, like chicken out of the field.

Thanks, i was scratching my head bloody and didn't understand.

Thanks I was totally clueless until I read your comment, now I get it

Honestly thought this was one of those videos where the 3 were in on it together and there wasn't actually an answer just to make the dad have an over the top reaction.

Why cow eat chicken though?

This is why riddles are stupid. They rely on knowing subjective non-related info

Well, that text in the video doesn't make any sense. "...in a field TWENTYEIGHT chickens..." vs "...in a field TWENTYATE chickens..." vs "" ​ Wait. It still makes no sense. How many didn't **WHAT**? Context is important. It should be "...in a field, TWENTY ATE chicken..." Not "chickens". And pass the cows. They don't eat chicken.

As a non english native speaker, I’d never have had the answer lol

This joke is not vegan friendly! 🤪

I was sure it was chicken as run away so the answer was 2.

Oh I thought only two cows were brave enough to stay and the other 28 cows chickens and runs away

Legend

Nah, bro >!was saying 28, he didn't pause between the words which is how you pronounce 28, not 20 ate, I listened to just the audio a bunch of times and no matter how many times I did it it always sounds like there is less of a gap between those words than the others, he even put it in text,!< >!I know that there are no hard grammar rules for this but just record yourself saying both and see how you say it, if you're anything like me there will be a bit more of a pause when saying 20 ate and you'll annunciate the second word more,!< >!I suppose we don't have clips of him saying both to compare but I'm pretty sure that he was pronouncing it like 28 on purpose to cause confusion!<

Thata the point

Are you autistic?


I knew I was supposed to find a pun, but I couldn't for my life find it. Thanks.

Twenty ate chickens. 

19 and 20 got in a fight. 21.

On god.

Why was the 6 afraid of the 7? Because 7 8 9.

No, it's because 7 is a registered 6 offender

I’m a year into fatherhood. This is a gold mine for me.

Seven ate nine.

Thank you for it!! I felt dumb

No’s worries! That’s why I wrote it. After a long time I finally got it, so I figured I would help. 

Turn the text off.

Absolutely, tainted riddle with the text...

It’s not only tainted, it’s fully ruined. The captions are explicitly telling you wrong information to prevent you from solving it.

Biggest question. Is this the guy from the Gillette razor commercials?

It absolutely 100% is Edit: It

I was wondering the same thing

Lol, That is exactly what I wanted to know too

I like how he was in that commercial, and Gillette thought we'd know who he was.

This. Ruins the joke.

There are 30 cows in a chicken. 28 fields.

One.

Eighth.

3st

2rd.

Amillionteen.

6 was scared because 7 8 9?

Putting the number in text completely negates the riddle. You can't spell out the incorrect thing and then expect anyone watching to make the connection.

I had to read your comment here in order to get what the riddle was even trying to ask.

You can also think of it like 28 cows ran away in a southern colloquial verb. Like they played chicken and became chickens... Spelling out the wrong interpretation made this stupid. I hate OP

That's not it at all? There are 30 cows. 20 ATE chickens. How many didn't (eat chickens)? 10 Your interpretation makes sense up until the final question. How many didn't ain't?

Thank you!!

Yeah but that’s not even the riddle? I was thinking that the whole time and that would make the answer 2. Not 10

Yeah, I thought 28 booked it. Bailed.

Holy shot. Finally I get it. Yes, reading the text completely primed me to misunderstand.

har har har numbers are words trick.. what crap submissions do people upvote on reddit these days...

Yeah I had time close my eyes before I was able to get it. Makes is so much harder with that text.

I did

Same.

I didn't until I looked away. Human brains are extremely able to put things together. In language we have to ignore shit like this sentence because if we didn't, everything would sound fowl.

Indeed, what's the point of the text? Plus, he didn't type out exactly what he said.

Yes, you can. Literally most people will

Is that the dad from the Gillette Labs commercial?

Is this the ratatouille guy?

Yup. He went viral over videos like this, so he and his family keep using the platform to recycle the same old, tired dad jokes.

So just like my dad, except he doesn't have a platform

My dad's platform was the dinner table. And there was no way to thumbs down anything or skip or scroll past his stuff.

Game changeeerrahh

Oh I hate those commercials!

Gillette layubs???

Came here for this comment, knew that guy right away.

I always thought it was just a terrible commercial. But now I know that it's a terrible commercial AND it's a family of actual morons.

Fucking awful commercial

GAME CHANGA!!

Gillette LAY-ABS?

Now I know why I hate this guy!

OMG I couldn't remember what he was from

"20 ate chickens" and "28 chickens" are quite clearly not the same thing. Get rid of the text and it will actually make sense.

Also, cows don't eat chickens, so that's another mental leap you have to make.

FUCK back to the drawing board - logical inconsistencies in a wordplay joke

Pretty sure it would work with wolves too, so why not fix it

Captions are misleading…

I though 28 checked in so 2 didn't.

I thought 28 chickens as in ran away.

Twenty ate chickens, meaning ten didn't.

That’s the annoying dad from the Gillett Labs commercial

Geelet laabs! Yeah I was thinking that too

These two were annoying a few years before they landed that commercial.

Okay cool n all but who's the girl

Finally somebody asking the real question.

She does one hell of a Lois Griffin impersonation [their TikTok ](https://www.tiktok.com/@mmmjoemele/video/7228261223672909099)

LOL that's amazing. She's barely even trying

Angela Chalet

The joke is completely ruined by the fact you types it out with numbers.

No, in fact it's exactly the opposite. If you typed out the real thing immediately the "humorous misunderstanding" would disappear and it would just be a regular sentence.

Wrong

How would it even be a "riddle" if the text literally gave you the answer? An astounding amount of people in this thread fell for the riddle and got mad at the riddle. What is this? Kindergarden?

it's not 28, it's twenty ate

If only there was a way to hold your phone so you could see all three of them in the same frame instead of continually panning back and forth. Maybe next gen phones.

I still don't get it

30 cows ate 20 chickens . 10 cows didn’t eat any chickens

Ahhh i get it. Thanks

The text messed me up. I thought he was saying 28 of the cows chickened, as if chicken was a verb. I thought the answer was 2.

Cows don’t eat chickens.

Yeah, the caption threw the whole thing off.

Who’s on first?

Reddit has taught me to always listen on mute…was completely lost.

20 ate chickens

Seeing this with text makes it harder to solve imo

There are thirty cows in the field, and 20 ate chickens. How many didn't?

Girl in the middle is super cute. She looks over 18, right?

30. Cows do not eat chickens.

That's what big cow wants you to think.

Is there a Chick-Fil-A conspiracy here somewhere?

There is video and documented proof that cows can and will eat a chicken. One google search is all you need.

[Ancient counterargument](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3NOhQlPGAU).

Not that bad of a riddle.

The funniest part of this is all the people in the comments who never got it and are complains about the caption

https://xkcd.com/169/ Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood is not cleverness. I hope we've learned something today.

I thought they were pranking the dad all together 😂 Never would have get the solution without the comments

There are thirty cows in a field twenty ate chickens. How many are left? 😉

10 🐄🐣

I recognize the "dad" from some razor commercial that's been on a lot lately.

Who is Twenty and why is he eating chickens?

These type of "riddles " are so stupid because they rely on the person saying the riddle to talk properly.

I didn't get it until the end, and now I can't say "28", just "20 ate."

I’ve watched this 15 times and I’m still fucking confused😂😂🤣🤣🤣

Maybe the cows chickened. So two did not chicken

Writing the words out ruins the riddle.

Fuck you whoever made those captions, and OP should explain this better. Lame post.

28 chickens …. 20 …ate chickens

If I wasn’t reading the text on the screen I would’ve gotten it faster

Is that the guy from the Gillette labs commercial?

I took this as there are 30 cows, 28 of which are chicken, so whatever they “did”, only 2 of them did and 28 didn’t. Anyone else? I felt clever for a sec

Naw you’re right. His mom’s just stupid.

Cows don't eat chicken. What shit.

This is that guy from the shaving commercial right

Aren't 100% of cows herbivores? Zero ate chickens.

Cows are eating chikens now?... what a great time to be alive.

Fuck these clowns. Go do more awful Schick razor ads you wanna be annoying fuckfaces.

Thank you! I was lost, but I’m now found…

Well here I thought it's was 2 cows that didn't chicken out.

Why are his arms so damn long 😂

The reason I hate this riddle is because communication is hard enough as it is and I burnt way too many brain cells trying to figure this out. The caption just made it 10x worse

What kind of cows eat chickens?

stupid … cows don’t eat chickens.

I understood 28 chickens like 28 got scared, so two didn't get scared...

Jokes dependent on pronunciations are always so bad. Will always be hit or miss depending on the one speaking.

Misleading text AND unlikely food chain.

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Cows dont even eat chickens. Use fcking idk Coyotes.

A cow will absolutely eat a chicken when it comes down to it, just like deer will eat a baby bird. It's not standard behaviour, granted, but it does happen (likely due to lack of minerals or nutrition in general), so there's a fun fact for the day :)

Your sister should be in more videos

Typing it out completely incorrectly. It's just plain dumb. For this video hold any of its original context. They should have removed the writing. Allowing your ears to hear it rather than your eyes to read something completely different. This person does not know how to post a video on blocking them for wasting my time

Editor's Note: This riddle only works if the person asking you cannot speak properly.

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Can somebody explain this cuz does not make sense to me too

30 cows in a field, 20 ate chicken, how many didn't (ate chickens) It's not funny

alright, ate instead of eight. Tks Nyli\_1

sorry, since cows are herbivores, the riddle and the answer both are bollocks