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Daily Riddle — Sep 7, 2026

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As I went over London Bridge I met my sister Jenny, I broke her neck and drank her blood and left her standing empty.

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Answer: A bottle of gin ('sister Jenny' — drank it and left the bottle standing empty)

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📖 The answer, explained

The trick here is that "sister Jenny" is doing double duty as a name and a wink at the drink itself — Jenny standing in for gin, the way old slang liked to dress up spirits as people. Once you hear it that way, the violence dissolves into something almost tender: "broke her neck" is just the snap of a bottle's neck being opened, not an act of harm. "Drank her blood" turns out to be nothing darker than drinking the gin inside. And "left her standing empty" seals it — a bottle, upright, drained, exactly where you set it down. The riddle survives on that gentle misdirection, letting your mind picture a person before quietly revealing it was glass and liquor all along.