(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?

(In reply to possible tricks by Tristan)

The "he" refers to the man at the beginning; that should have been reworded.

The bill the man gave is really just a dollar bill, worth only a dollar.


I editted the problem to make sure these are what's intended. Tricks problems are the only problems where you can be picky about words.
Edited on January 5, 2004, 8:41 pm

Posted by Gamer on 2004-01-05 20:38:10