(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 re: solution by Penny)

Couldn't you use that for recipies where you don't need a whole one? You obviously can use half a melon, or half a pepper. Anyway, the sale could be just like gas; giving partials because nobody will buy just 1, they will buy 6 or 36, or something like that :)

Posted by Gamer on 2004-01-06 20:28:28