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kasual01
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 Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: Help me out...need answer to this. |
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| A disreputable engineer offers to sell a crook a perfect counterfeiting machine. There is nothing inside it but gears, rollers, and other equipment. The engineer feeds colored paper in one side of the machine while the crook watches. Out the other side come perfect $100 bills. The crook takes the bills to two experts and neither can tell the bills from real ones, so the crook buys the machine. The engineer leaves, making no changes to the machine, which is in perfect running order, but the crook can never get it to produce any money. Explain.
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Kjell
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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| The machine guy, had made real 100 dollar bills come out the machine, propably sold it for 1000s anyway.
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suzanne16
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| Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:57 am Post subject: |
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| the man who was selling the machine probably fed real money into the machine in the first place.
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ursusblue
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This is actually a play on a old magic trick.
The trick is in the machine. As the paper is fed into the take up reel the money (which was preloaded) comes off the feed reel.
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Riddleman
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| ursusblue wrote: | This is actually a play on a old magic trick.
The trick is in the machine. As the paper is fed into the take up reel the money (which was preloaded) comes off the feed reel. |
that doesnt make sense as a riddle though......i think its because the colored paper is money but then the whole rest of the story wouldnt make much sense
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