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55 Cents
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.Answer
The coin that is not a nickel is a half dollar. The other coin is a nickel.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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i saw this on cosby
Hey Theo, get me a Jello puddin' pop!
rather easy
we get so many dupes of this teaser
Hey! Hey! Hey!
tricky...
Learned this one in second grade but it was still fun
Had to look twice, and then at the hint, which gave it to me
EASY!
this was in one of my grandma's teaching books too.
i dont know the american lingo
u know, it could have been that the person was holding two coins plus five, 2 quarters and 5 pennies
It was ok but not the best one!Could of been better!!!
i got it right for once!!!!
i got this one right! this was an awesome teaser! wh00!
copycat of Bill Cosby which copied this to begin with
Thats an OLD one.
incredibly easy i didnt even look at the hint
should be in TRICK category
still a classic
still a classic
should be in TRICK category
still a classic
still a classic
easy!! ü but fun anyway.
I didn't like it that much...
it got me thinking that there wasn't a nickel at all...
whatevr...
it got me thinking that there wasn't a nickel at all...
whatevr...
to the comment above this one-thats the point!
yay this was good!
yay this was good!
I heard it in a little kid book
to easy i learnt it ages ago and please make the hints harder to understand uit was to obvious
to easy i learnt it ages ago and please make the hints harder to understand uit was to obvious
easy.
EASY.
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...)
(don't mean to leave a bad impression but I'm sorry...)
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.
I saw this one on an episode of Scrubs.
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??????????
This one is a trick.... Some people are from diffrent countries you know
Yeah, I got it from Scrubs too.
Yeah, I've heard it so many times...
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