A lady just married a man. They do not have enough money to stay in a decent hotel. The couple stays with the man's mother. The man's mother has a jar full of lima beans, the lady's favourite food. The lady takes one lima bean each day they stay. The man's mother suspects the lady's theiving, but does not say a word. One day, the man's mother and wife are cleaning the kitchen together. The lady sees the man's mother looking at her eying the jar, now half full of lima beans. The lady finds one on the counter top and holds it up to the man's mother. She says three words that relieves the man's mother's suspection. What are those three words?
Answer: "What is This?" Are the words said by the lady. The man's mother will think that the lady wouldnt eat something that she didn't know what it was. Asking, "What is This?" Will make the mother think it might've been someone else.
A man leaves a $100,000 dollar bill on his desk and leaves work. When he returns the money is gone. He has three suspects: the cook, the cleaning lady, and the mail guy. The cook says he put the money under a book on his desk to keep it safe. They check and it is no longer there. The maid says she moved it when she was cleaning to the inside of the book between page 1 and 2. They open the book and look between page number 1 and 2 but it isn't there. The mail guy says he saw it sticking out of the book and to keep it safe he moved it to between page number 2 and 3. Once they are done the culprit is promptly arrested. Who did it and how did he know?
I want to buy a $1.00 newspaper. I have just enough pennies $0.01, nickels $0.05, dimes $0.10, and quarters $0.25 to buy the newspaper in every possible exact-change combination of those coins.
How many coins do I have?
What are the answers to all these clues and what do those answers have in common?
