Riddle for the Castanauts.
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Re: Riddle for the Castanauts.
Count the number of squares.
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Re: Riddle for the Castanauts.
Glacier wrote:Count the number of squares.
34
Ooops added my ticks wrong oh well, what posted is posted.
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Re: Riddle for the Castanauts.
I count more than that...
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Re: Riddle for the Castanauts.
I counted 39
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Re: Riddle for the Castanauts.
raise mine from 34 to 39
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Re: Riddle for the Castanauts.
40 on my second count
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Re: Riddle for the Castanauts.
Three guests check into a hotel room. The clerk says the bill is $30, so each guest pays $10. Later the clerk realizes the bill should only be $25. To rectify this, he gives the bellhop $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot divide the money equally. As the guests didn't know the total of the revised bill, the bellhop decides to just give each guest $1 and keep $2 for himself.
Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back, each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back, each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
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Re: Riddle for the Castanauts.
I second thisstrwbrrydvl wrote:40 on my second count
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Re: Riddle for the Castanauts.
It's supposed to be an odd number.strwbrrydvl wrote:40 on my second count
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Re: Riddle for the Castanauts.
When you're as bad at math as I am, all numbers are odd.Captain Awesome wrote:
It's supposed to be an odd number.

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Re: Riddle for the Castanauts.
You saying we can't count squares? :jennysmad:
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Re: Riddle for the Castanauts.
I had to read this many times. There isn't an extra dollar; the hotel got their $25, the bell hop got $2 and the guests got $3 which totals thirty bucks.Captain Awesome wrote: Now that each of the guests has been given $1 back, each has paid $9, bringing the total paid to $27. The bellhop has $2. If the guests originally handed over $30, what happened to the remaining $1?
Did I count that right? :goof:
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Re: Riddle for the Castanauts.
Yes you did. CA's riddle is the more sophisticated version of the riddle:
- Farmer Joe has 17 sheep. All but nine die. How many are left?
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