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Stu Pidfule
In the legendary land of MADADIA, Stu Pidfule, the inventor of dehydrated water, died in a freak Kebab wrestling accident. In his will, he left a provision of money to each of his three children, Derek, Eric and Monkeyboy. Derek invested his money wisely. Eric spent his money wildly. Monkeyboy spent all his on some magic beans that didn't grow. Stu Pidfule had been determined to treat each child equally, and in a way he did, even though Derek, Eric and Monkeyboy all got different amounts.
How could this be?
How could this be?
Answer
He had left each of them the same thing. An amount equal to one year of their annual salary. So in reality he left them all the same thing.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Aug 20, 2002
The teaser does not indicate that the three guys recieve different salaries.. or for that matter whether they even work or not. To inject such information into the problem as a means of "solving"
it isn't a method based on logic but conjecture and creativity.
it isn't a method based on logic but conjecture and creativity.
The teaser isn't about money, it is about time. Money is just a by-product of that time, based on their salaries.
how bizarre.
where did all the stuff about their salaries come from? It wasn't mentioned to start with so it'd take a huge leap of the imagination to come to that conclusion.
where did all the stuff about their salaries come from? It wasn't mentioned to start with so it'd take a huge leap of the imagination to come to that conclusion.
it's a good job the answer is here then, otherwise you could have been here for weeks!
i didnt get this at ALL... could someone enlighten me?
Or maybe he left them the dollar value of 100 ounces worth of gold (priced at the exact time of their birth). Or the value of each of their pets, where one has a chicken for a pet, one had a unicorn (this is the legendary land of MADADIA, after all), and one had a fly (nope, there's nothing special about this fly, except maybe that Monkeyboy was glad he hadn't eaten it yet, else he would have inherited nothing at all! Isn't he lucky!). Or he left them $10 000 multiplied their shoe sizes (and they all had different shoe sizes), etc. etc. etc. ... etc.
Oh yes, and it IS a "good job the answer is here". Unfortunately it's a bad job the question is here!
Yes what a good thing people like you are here na-iem or whatever it was. I mean if you weren't here insulting other peoples teasers and saying how rubbish they are at writing teasers and not submitting a single one yourself I just don't know what we'd do. (Nice teaser by the way mad - I understand your logic.)
yeah what a good thing people like you are here smithy. defending crappy teasers that don't fit the rules of the category they're listed in, or any rules for that matter. if you understand his logic then you don't understand LOGIC at all.
this teaser is unsolvable and should be removed.
this teaser is unsolvable and should be removed.
yet it has remained here for over seven years, and several hundred thousand views later.
I enjoy puzzles like this though I wonder if the category should be Situation, or Zen, rather than Logic. I was thinking in terms of the magic beans etc. The story raises a question: would the salary solution be "equal"? How do we define equal? In real life I suspect most parents, if they didn't just do 1/3, would give more to the child who is lower paid, not less.
Anyway don't listen to the naysayers, go on writing strange stories!
Anyway don't listen to the naysayers, go on writing strange stories!
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