The Missing Pound Spooky.....
#1
Posted 16 October 2004 - 09:59 AM
Just spent bloody HOURS figuring this one out, so I might as well inflict it on you lot. No posting if you know the answer.
3 people go to a hotel, and pay £30 for a room. They split the bill equally, so each pays £10. An hour later, the manager goes to their room, and says that there is a discount on that room tonight because of a faulty lightbulb (Or window. Whatever). They only have to pay £25. Each of the customers take £1 back, and they let the manager keep the other £2.
Now, they paid £9 each, and 9x3=27. The manager got £2, so that makes £29. Where's the other pound gone? Eh?
3 people go to a hotel, and pay £30 for a room. They split the bill equally, so each pays £10. An hour later, the manager goes to their room, and says that there is a discount on that room tonight because of a faulty lightbulb (Or window. Whatever). They only have to pay £25. Each of the customers take £1 back, and they let the manager keep the other £2.
Now, they paid £9 each, and 9x3=27. The manager got £2, so that makes £29. Where's the other pound gone? Eh?
#2
Posted 16 October 2004 - 12:02 PM
I spent hours working this out when I heard it, but I found an answer. Which I've forgotten.
When you lose your calm, you feed your anger.
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#3
Posted 16 October 2004 - 12:18 PM
I think I may know...how different are pounds from dollars?
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#5
Posted 16 October 2004 - 12:52 PM
My dad told me that problem once; it took me a long time to figure out. A fun trick is to add lots and lots of unnecessary details (where they are, why they're there, the state of the room, etc.) which confuses the victim even further. His started something like "Three brothers are going to Debuque..."
#7
Posted 16 October 2004 - 03:24 PM
There was a spolier here, but I'm changing it for the sake of a suprise. Just think about the second statement. Is it right?
This post has been edited by Chyld: 16 October 2004 - 03:26 PM
When you lose your calm, you feed your anger.
Less Is More v4
Now resigned to a readership of me, my cat and some fish
Less Is More v4
Now resigned to a readership of me, my cat and some fish
#8
Posted 16 October 2004 - 09:01 PM
(*slaps forehead*)
I blame temporary retardation...I was thinking of something entirely different.
Stupid! Stupid!
I blame temporary retardation...I was thinking of something entirely different.
Stupid! Stupid!
This post has been edited by Jane Sherwood: 16 October 2004 - 09:02 PM
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Chyld is an ignorant slut.
Chyld is an ignorant slut.
QUOTE
"I don't have to conform to the vagaries of time and space; I'm a loony, for God's sake!"
- Campbell Bean (David Tennant), Takin' Over the Asylum, 1994
XD
- Campbell Bean (David Tennant), Takin' Over the Asylum, 1994
#15
Posted 17 October 2004 - 10:34 AM
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The first clue is of course that you can experiment with real dollars and no money disapears.
This is a pretty old riddle, but a really effective one. By now I'm sure you've been flooded with emails, so I won't send you one myself. PM me if noone sends you an answer.
Speaking of emails, I got one out of the blue from a total stranger doing a "survey" about attitudes toward STAR WARS, and what I think makes fanboys tick, form like an insider point of view.
Apparently he spammed the chefelf forums. I guess he hadn't bothered to read the posts there. Not a lot of fanboys, more a discontented and bitter rabble.
The first clue is of course that you can experiment with real dollars and no money disapears.
This is a pretty old riddle, but a really effective one. By now I'm sure you've been flooded with emails, so I won't send you one myself. PM me if noone sends you an answer.
Speaking of emails, I got one out of the blue from a total stranger doing a "survey" about attitudes toward STAR WARS, and what I think makes fanboys tick, form like an insider point of view.
Apparently he spammed the chefelf forums. I guess he hadn't bothered to read the posts there. Not a lot of fanboys, more a discontented and bitter rabble.
"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).