Braingle: '55 Cents' Brain Teaser

55 Cents

Logic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.

Puzzle ID:	#234
Fun:	(2.47)
Difficulty:	(1.11)
Category:	Logic
Submitted By:	Phyllis
Corrected By:	boodler

A man holds out his closed fist and says: "I am holding two coins in my hand. The sum of these coins comes to exactly 55 cents. One of the coins is not a nickel. Can you tell me the value of each of the coins?"

Hint

A nickel is worth 5 cents.
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Comments

inudbz Mar 15, 2003	i saw this on cosby
Rowsdower Dec 23, 2003	Hey Theo, get me a Jello puddin' pop!
coolbrain2291 Jan 23, 2004	rather easy
Mogmatt16 Feb 24, 2004	we get so many dupes of this teaser
darthforman May 26, 2005	Hey! Hey! Hey!
smarty_blondy Oct 23, 2005	tricky...
peppamintp Nov 15, 2005	Learned this one in second grade but it was still fun
boodler Nov 24, 2005	Had to look twice, and then at the hint, which gave it to me
hidentreasure Nov 29, 2005	EASY!
stephiesd Dec 14, 2005	this was in one of my grandma's teaching books too.
puttaholic Dec 17, 2005	i dont know the american lingo
mario128 Dec 25, 2005	u know, it could have been that the person was holding two coins plus five, 2 quarters and 5 pennies
cmariew27 Dec 30, 2005	It was ok but not the best one!Could of been better!!!
luckythirteen Feb 04, 2006	i got it right for once!!!!
fezface Feb 24, 2006	i got this one right! this was an awesome teaser! wh00!
keveffect1 Feb 27, 2006	copycat of Bill Cosby which copied this to begin with
TehIgnored Mar 03, 2006	Thats an OLD one.
righteouschick2 Apr 08, 2006	incredibly easy i didnt even look at the hint
calmsavior Apr 13, 2006	should be in TRICK category still a classic
calmsavior Apr 13, 2006	should be in TRICK category still a classic
petraka Apr 25, 2006	easy!! ü but fun anyway.
elshawno May 05, 2006	I didn't like it that much... it got me thinking that there wasn't a nickel at all... whatevr...
spazzyjazzy93 May 28, 2006	to the comment above this one-thats the point! yay this was good!
jaxie9 Jun 15, 2006	I heard it in a little kid book
nellie188 Jun 16, 2006	to easy i learnt it ages ago and please make the hints harder to understand uit was to obvious
nellie188 Jun 16, 2006	to easy i learnt it ages ago and please make the hints harder to understand uit was to obvious
nellie188 Jun 16, 2006
banzai Jul 03, 2006	easy.
DEJL Jul 27, 2006	EASY.
sabrefang Aug 23, 2006	No offence, but that was SIMPLE! (apart from the fact that I didn't know what a nickel was worth) but once I saw that (I'm an Aussie) it was pretty damn obvious... One isn't 5 cents, I have 55 cents... HOW EASY IS THAT? No offence, but it was pretty lame... (don't mean to leave a bad impression but I'm sorry...)
rrn0rrnrrnY Sep 03, 2006	Have to agree with the majority here. I've heard this one in the 55c and 30c variations since I was a kid. Also think it belongs in tricks. Childrens' tricks if we had them.
nojttalp Feb 13, 2007	I saw this one on an episode of Scrubs.
bgil7604 Feb 26, 2007	I don't want to be too mean, but that was really stupid. Also, shouldn't everyone know that a nickel is worth 5 cents??????????
brudork Mar 10, 2007	This one is a trick.... Some people are from diffrent countries you know
coolguy5678 Apr 08, 2007	Yeah, I got it from Scrubs too.
ChRmD1 Apr 28, 2007	Yeah, I've heard it so many times...