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Daily Riddle — Jul 20, 2026

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You’ve just arrived in a new town, seeking your fortune, and you need a haircut. In this town, there are two barbers. The first barber has a neat, dapper haircut, and his shop is immaculately clean. The second barber’s haircut is grotesque, and his shop is filthy—giant tumbleweeds of hair drift across the floor, and the scissors are caked in layers of rust. Which barber do you want to cut your hair?

Think you have it? The answer is below.

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Answer: The filthy barber — in a two-barber town each cuts the other's hair, so the messy barber is the one who gave the neat barber his great haircut

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