Tuesday, November 18, 2003
DID YOU FIGURE IT OUT? ABOUT THE CHICKEN, I MEAN?
Let’s put things in perspective first. I started out The Puzzle Machine or What is a Chicken, Exactly? with a riddle. Here it is again: Three people go together to a prix fix restaurant. They pay $30 to the maître d’ and go to their table. But the restaurant is having a special: “Three for $25,” so the maître d’ sends a waiter to their table with five $1 bills. On the way to the table the waiter reasons that $5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each...
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