Buying Chestnuts (Posted on 2004-01-05)

	Submitted by Gamer
Rating: 3.0000 (3 votes)
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The wording on this one is the trick, but the wording tells you the trick if you read carefully. Words have been added in bold to help facilitate the meaning of each statement. A man went into a shop and wanted a dollar's worth of chestnuts and was given five chestnuts. "It is not enough; I ought to have a sixth of a chestnut more," he remarked. "But you will have five sixths of a chestnut too many if I gave you one chestnut more." If 5 1/6 chestnuts is worth one dollar, then 60 * 5 1/6 or 310 chestnuts would be worth 3 twenty dollar bills or 60 dollars. (Wording used as seen in the problem's solution)

	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