Praveen_khm  +  223947 Tue, 09 May 06 01:17 PM Hi all, Try answering this one which I found in one of the other sites....... You employ someone to work for you for seven days. To pay your employee, you have one bar of gold which is has seven segments. Your employee needs to be paid for their days work at the end of each day. You may only cut the gold bar twice. How do you pay your employee?   Pravi...... Praveen_khm Joined on Tue, May 2 2006 Bangalore New Member 08

	nona the brit  +  223952 Tue, 09 May 06 01:34 PM I’ve got an idea…let’s see if I can work it out.   Day one: cut off a segment and pay them. They now have one segment. Day two: cut off a piece 2 segments big and give them that and ask for the first days gold back – they now have two segments Day three: Give them the single segment again. They now have three segments Day four: give them the remaining piece with 4 segments and ask for all the other bits back. They now have 4 segments. Day five: give them the single segment. They now have 5 segments. Day 6: Give them the ‘2 segment’ piece and ask for the single segment back. They now have 6 segments. Day 7: give them the single segment. They now have 7 segments.   I’ve done it!   Sorry for solving your riddle so quickly. I think you need to have a Eureka moment and it came to me immediately. Usually I’m rubbish at puzzles! nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,713 The name says it all. Riddles

	Praveen_khm  +  223954 Tue, 09 May 06 01:37 PM Cool.... you got it ...but am disappointed that you solved it so soon...... -Pravi..... Praveen_khm

	Grammar Geek  +  674421 Tue, 17 Feb 09 09:44 PM Hi Anon, You'll see that Nona solved the puzzle back in 2006.   Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!