Thursday Riddle

[helenabear]

Hi y'all! Please PM me when you get the right answer


An errand boy was collecting boxes of cakes for the Summer Fair. He collected boxes from various people in his local village and each box was labelled in Roman Numerals with the number of cakes in the box. By the time the errand boy had collected the last box, he was quite hungry, and really needed to eat at least one cake. Luckily the last box was marked with an underlined XI, meaning there were 11 cakes in it. He had the brain wave of turning the box around and underlining the number again to give the impression there were IX, that is 9 cakes. However, after eating the 2 cakes, he was still hungry. How can he change the number shown on the box again and eat more cakes?

 

[L107ANGEL]

Good Morning Sunshines Lame guess sent it

 

[Lars624]

Happy Thursday

I'm IN....................I think at least

 

[Gaspode]

Morning

Struggling today....

Gaspodé

 

[sheridac]

Holy crap!!!

Is this a MATH question????

 

[helenabear]

Leading us today is Lars

 

[helenabear]

Holy crap!!!

Is this a MATH question????

Yes, but simple math that even lysdexic chick (me) can do

One shouldn't always think like the Romans

 

[Gaspode]

I'm in, thanks to a good friend of mine

When in Rome (don't do as the Romans do)

 

[helenabear]

Melissa

 

[sheridac]

ok, those mints just suck!!

 

[firstmickey]

Good Morning Riddlers!

 

[L107ANGEL]

ok, those mints just suck!!

 

[helenabear]

I'm in, thanks to a good friend of mine

When in Rome (don't do as the Romans do)

Or think like numerals... Write them out in long hand instead

 

[helenabear]

Lou

Donna

 

[Loubon]

Here's a long hand in case you need one (it's not hairy enough to be Cantw8's)

 

[Gaspode]

And here's another long hand.

 

[CdnDisneyNut]

Morning

Pm sent

 

[helenabear]

Mike

 

[helenabear]

horsegirl

 

[horsegirl]

Morning all. PM sent and I am in. Where are we heading today?