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SJP explained it almost correctly in post #72: right logic, wrong numbers. Friend A gets 7 dinars, friend B gets 1.
Missed that the first time thank you - But I stand by my logic as well - Only one Christian country uses dinars - Serbia - Also Muslim as well as many other cultures would prohibit the acceptance of monies as a guest was invited to share a meal.
Agreed, I'd be pretty insulted if a guest at my table offered payment for the meal, or expected it from me as a guest. But for the purposes of the puzzle we're expected to put aside reality for a moment... :smile:
I guess it would have simplified things considerably if he'd have just stated "units of local legal tender". Or "ullt"s.
I agree the person that poses the question makes the final ruling - Unless of course Judge Goober - the nicest Judge in Alberta - is called upon - then others may also be called upon - then the begats beging and before you know we even may agree -
Guess we will have to get into the Vulcan mode.
7 men going from church are outside when it starts to pour rain - 6 men immediately run for cover and get wet - the other man stayed where he was and remained completely dry. Why????
1st Hint - One word in this changed to the plural usage will provide a clear hint.
2nd Hint - The same word in French sounds quite similiar to the English version - and would be easily understood by many English speakers and the Latin would also be understood by English and or French speakers. Not all but by a substantial number.
Still puzzling over JLM's post #101 from 3 days ago: "One costs $1, ten cost $2, 100 cost $3, 1000 cost $4. What are they?" Nobody's attempted a response yet, so I presume everybody's either forgotten it or is in the same state I am: completely mystified and obviously missing something. Do 10,000 cost $5? I note that the cost in dollars equals the number of digits in the number...
HA! A stroke of insight! You're buying digits for a house number, an address., $1 per digit. 1 to 9 is one digit, costs a dollar, 10 to 99 is two digits, costs $2, etc.
I'm just way too pleased with myself over figuring that out. Here's another one I like.
A saintly young girl goes into a church carrying a bouquet of roses. She leaves some of them in the church, and when she exits the building, the number she's still carrying is magically doubled. That's how saintly she is. She goes into a second church and leaves the same number of roses, and the same thing happens when she leaves. She goes into a third church and leaves the same number of roses again, and exits carrying a single rose. So how many was she carrying initially and how many did she leave in each church?
Hint: the number of solutions is mathematically infinite, so keep it to the minimum number she could actually carry. And for bonus points, what's the relationship between the number she starts out with and the number she leaves?
I'm just way too pleased with myself over figuring that out. Here's another one I like.
A saintly young girl goes into a church carrying a bouquet of roses. She leaves some of them in the church, and when she exits the building, the number she's still carrying is magically doubled. That's how saintly she is. She goes into a second church and leaves the same number of roses, and the same thing happens when she leaves. She goes into a third church and leaves the same number of roses again, and exits carrying a single rose. So how many was she carrying initially and how many did she leave in each church?
Hint: the number of solutions is mathematically infinite, so keep it to the minimum number she could actually carry. And for bonus points, what's the relationship between the number she starts out with and the number she leaves?
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