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Answer these riddles and the esophagus will let you pass.

Riddles for 'Lemmy'winks.

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A man told his son that he would give him $1000 if he could accomplish the following task. The 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?

AnswerThe contents or the ten envelopes (in dollar bills) should be as follows: $1, 2,4, 8, 16, 32,64, 128,256, 489. The first nine numbers are in geometrical progression, and their sum, deducted from 1,000, gives the contents of the tenth envelope.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it’s a math problem not a riddle

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's also a programming problem (the envelope contents are 2^0, 2^1, 2^2, etc, which is how computers understand numbers). But I would still classify it as a riddle.

In fact, my whole programming career is just solving riddles. Like the one titled, "which of the idiots wrote this piece of code".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does the son know the contents afterwards if he can't open the envelopes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It says nothing about having to shuffle the envelopes after he filled them..