(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 solution by Popstar Dave)

Although Penny's strange formula may be right, it is definitely way too much of a stretch, and there isn't anything supplied in the formula for that. I think 310 chestnuts is right. :)

Posted by Gamer on 2004-01-06 06:24:35