Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00183)

Steve wrote, partially,
<< ... self-proclaimed genius Marilyn vos Savant, who claims to know 
everything, >>

I don't think she ever claimed to know everything ... and her label as 
"smartest" is not self-proclaimed but is the result of her getting high 
scores on intelligence-type tests.

She'd probably be the first to admit she doesn't know everything, even 
if she wouldn't admit it in print.

Years ago, I, and many other people caught her on one particular 
mistake. Someone wrote in and asked if she could put 50 pennies into ten 
envelopes, so that there would be a different number of pennies inside 
each envelope. (with at least one penny in each envelope).

She replied that it couldn't be done.

I mailed her a set of ten envelopes that had 50 paper pennies inside 
them. Every envelope had at least one penny in it, and every envelope 
contained a different number of pennies.

I won't post the answer yet, so that each of you can try to see if you 
are smarter than Marilyn vos Savant. (If you do post the answer to the 
group, be sure to identify it as a SPOILER and leave lots of blank lines 
at the start of your message, so that people who don't want to see the 
answer won't open it.) (If you want to see my answer, just write me 
directly and I'll tell you. My puzzle address is (webmaster (at) 
mazes.com).)

--
John, webmaster
www.GodLovesEveryone.org and www.MAZES.com

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