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Buying Chestnuts (Posted on 2004-01-05)

(This "nonsense puzzle" gets its name from the puzzle I saw it from)

A shopper went into a shop and wanted a dollar's worth of chestnuts when he gave the shopkeeper a one dollar bill and was given five chestnuts. "It is not enough; I ought to have a sixth," the shopper remarked. "But you will have five too many if I gave you one chestnut more", the shopkeeper replied.

How many chestnuts should the man have gotten for 3 twenty dollar bills?

See The Solution Submitted by Gamer

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Subject	Author	Date
explanation to puzzle answer	K Sengupta	2022-07-25 00:56:41
answer	K Sengupta	2008-02-07 05:18:16
I agree with Popstar Dave	Larry	2004-03-04 00:15:15
guessing before reading	dave domingo	2004-01-27 17:52:00
Possibility	e.g.	2004-01-07 13:58:42
re(2): solution	Gamer	2004-01-06 20:28:28
possible solution	luminita	2004-01-06 15:54:05
re: solution	Penny	2004-01-06 11:37:35
re: solution	Gamer	2004-01-06 06:24:35
maybe the answer	cory	2004-01-06 02:01:21
re: solution -- Of Course!	TomM	2004-01-06 01:57:08
the real answer	cory	2004-01-06 01:50:04
answer	cory	2004-01-06 01:46:37
solution	Popstar Dave	2004-01-06 01:38:42
The answer is..............(----------------------------------	Darryl	2004-01-06 00:50:40
Solution	Penny	2004-01-06 00:09:00
5 too many whats?	Richard	2004-01-05 22:16:06
In relation to that:	Gamer	2004-01-05 20:38:10
possible tricks	Tristan	2004-01-05 20:14:34
Give it a try	Dan Blume	2004-01-05 18:02:09

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