Riddles

[CrowsFan]

The actual answer is they are written in alphabetical order :)

[GoLions]

The actual answer is they are written in alphabetical order :)

Haha yep :P

[tor01doc]

Next 3 letters please...


O T T F F S S ? ? ?

[Ziplock]

EN

[CrowsFan]

E N T

[Nige]

Left out the T there Zip.  ;)

[Ziplock]

whoops, I thought we were only supposed to do two letters for some reason :P

[GoLions]

Riddle #29

A father gave his son ten envelopes and a thousand dollars, all in one dollar bills. He told his son, "Place the money in the envelopes in such a manner that no matter what number of dollars I ask for, you can give me one or more of the envelopes, containing the exact amount I asked for without having to open any of the envelopes. If you can do this, you will keep the $1000. When the father asked for a sum of money, the son was able to give him envelopes containing the exact amount of money asked for.

How did the son distribute the money among the ten envelopes?

[kilbluff1985]

flowered if i know that one

[tor01doc]

whoops, I thought we were only supposed to do two letters for some reason :P

I think I did have 2 there but only for a really short time!

Z is psychic.

[CrowsFan]

Hmm going to have to have a big think about that one...

[Holz]

1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 489

[Holz]

1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 489

3 = 2+1
5 = 4+1
6 = 2+4
7 = 1+2+4
9 = 1+8

Etc. ...

[Ziplock]

1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10
489   256   128   64   32   16   8   4   2   1


I'm not sure if that's right or not though..


*edit*

as holz appears to have done the same thing as me, I'm still not sure if it's right though.

[GoLions]

1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 489

That's it. Basically just powers of 2 until you get to 256. Then al those numbers add up to (256*2) -1, which is 511. 1000-511=489.