Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That...

[Torrere]

Originally Posted by BigV

Hunter leaves camp in the morning. Travels south for five miles. Picks up signs of bear. Follows tracks east for five miles. Sights, shoots and kills the bear. Dresses the carcass and returns to camp five miles to the north.


What color was the bear?

Wasn't that in one of Larry Niven's Dreampark novels? I think it was in the introduction to The California Voodoo Game, and that Captain Cipher gave some mathematical details of the answer.