When Levik was a young man he spent a summer working as a stockboy for a large grocery store. It was a rather strange grocery store, however, and they had a very peculiar way of arranging the fruit.

In one group you would find any of the following fruits:
apple, banana, grape, and orange.

In a different area you would find fruits like:
mango, nectarine, peach, and pear.

One day a new crate of fruit arrived and Levik wasn't sure where to put it. Where would you put a crate labeled strawberry?

okay... so that last hint made it easy... i got the same solution as Jim, but by looking at the shape of the letters... group A (apple etc) has a mixture of curved and straight letters while group B (mango etc) is composed entirely of curved letters (assuming t counts as a curved letter) therefore, strawberry would go in group B because it is composed entirely of curved letters... this way of thinking would account for a hypothetical box labeled "strawberries" going in group A because i is a straight letter...

Posted by sean on 2005-08-16 20:45:20