Comment by yywwbbn

> why would anyone out of blue ask such question

I would certainly expect any person to have the same reaction.

> So, it started its chain of thought with "Interpreting the riddle" (smart!).

How is that smarter than intuitively arriving at the correct answer without having to explicitly list the intermediate step? Being able to reasonably accurately judge the complexity of a problem with minimal effort seems “smarter” to me.