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(Message started by: Wilmamercy on Mar 23^rd, 2010, 8:29pm)

Title: Apples and Friends
Post by Wilmamercy on Mar 23^rd, 2010, 8:29pm

There's a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who desires an apple each. Each of them are given one apple.
After a few minutes each of your friends has one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.

How?

Title: Re: Apples and Friends
Post by towr on Mar 24^th, 2010, 3:05am

[hide]You and your friends are in a hot air balloon.[/hide] :P

Title: Re: Apples and Friends
Post by JohanC on Mar 24^th, 2010, 5:31am

Although Towr's alternative answer sounds better, I suppose the intended answer is
[hide]You offered the last apple together with the basket to the sweetest of your girlfriends.[/hide]

Title: Re: Apples and Friends
Post by rmsgrey on Mar 24^th, 2010, 9:56am

Another possibility: [hide]You have another apple in your hand when you ask "Who wants an apple?" - if there's going to be 11 of you, you take 11 apples...[/hide]

Title: Re: Apples and Friends
Post by Grimbal on Mar 24^th, 2010, 10:00am

Or you miscounted.

Title: Re: Apples and Friends
Post by Noke Lieu on Mar 24^th, 2010, 3:47pm

one of them stopped being you friend and had to return the apple... ::)

Title: Re: Apples and Friends
Post by Grimbal on Mar 25^th, 2010, 8:09am

Or one of them didn't get an apple, and stopped being a friend.

Title: Re: Apples and Friends
Post by alien2 on Mar 27^th, 2010, 8:29pm

The apple fell from a tree in the basket.

Or two of your friends are one-armed Siamese twins, whatever that means.