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Strange Coinage

Originally published on July 5th, 2012

Can you place 10 coins in such a way that they lie in 5 straight lines and on each line there are 4 coins! Here’s a hint: There is no stacking.

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Jack of all Trades

I am not a king, I am not a queen
But most of you will bow when I’m seen
Currently I am resting on my side
But soon I will continue my stride
I can’t walk, run, fly or crawl
Yet I am the greatest traveler of all.

High Roller

A man is visiting Las Vegas and he falls for the local hype and heads for a casino with hopes of hitting it big.
He goes into this unusual casino that charges a dollar to enter, as well as a dollar to leave. He pays his dollar, plays the slot machines, loses half his money and [...]

Another Max Gaetanno Mystery

There was a homeless man that was looking through the window of a nice restaurant. He notice a chef making a wonderfully-smelling soup. When the chef went into the other room to get some pepper for the soup, the drifter climbed through the window to smell the wonderful concoction. He apparently inhaled for too long [...]

Heads or Tails

You are blindfolded and wearing thick gloves. Someone puts twenty coins on the table. Ten of them are heads and ten of them are tails, but you wouldn’t know which because of your blindfold and gloves. You could flip or move the coins if you want. Your goal is to group them into two groups [...]

American Eagle

A guy walks into a coin shop and buys 100 coins and pays $100 for them.
The purchase comprised a certain number of quarters and dollars at face value,
$0.25 and $1.00, respectively, and a certain number of gold coins known as Eagles.

What’s the unit price of an Eagle?

 

Golden Pearls

“I’m a very rich man, so I’ve decided to give you some of my fortune. Do you see this bag? I have 5001 pearls inside it. 2501 of them are white, and 2500 of them are black. No, I am not racist. I’ll let you take out any number of pearls from the bag without [...]

Cheap Animals

You’re given a hundred dollars and told to spend it all purchasing exactly one hundred animals at the pet store. Dogs cost $15. Cats cost a buck, and mice are .25 cents each.

You have to spend exactly one hundred dollars and you have to end up with exactly one hundred animals?

The question is, [...]

No Quarters

A highly respected numismatist was walking home one night when he was approached by a stranger. The stranger had in his possession a box containing 1932 quarters. The coin collector was excited, explaining to him that these quarters were worth at least 483 dollars.
“It’s unfortunate, however, that you didn’t possess 1933 quarters.” He exclaimed. “They [...]

Get your Goat

A farmer wanted to sell his goat so he took it to the market. After a short while, out came a man and asked the farmer, “how much for your goat?”
The farmer replied, “100 Dollars.”
The man agreed to buy it, so he took a hundred dollar bill out of his pocket in order to give [...]