Lateral Thinking Puzzle #1 Solution

The following is the solution to the lateral thinking puzzle: Three Men and Their Dinner.

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The shepherd with three loaves of bread receives one coin. The shepherd with five loaves of bread receives seven coins.

Why? We assume that all three men ate the same amount of bread. Three men splitting eight loaves would each get two and two-thirds loaves.

So, after eating 2 and 2/3 of his loaves, the first shepherd (who originally had three loaves) has 1/3 loaf to share.

After eating 2 and 2/3 of his loaves, the second shepherd (who originally had five loaves) has 2 and 1/3 loaves to share (or 7/3)

The first shepherd gets 1 coin and the second shepherd gets 7 coins.

If the above makes your head spin, take some scratch paper and draw out this solution submitted on our facebook page by Khalid:

Dividing each loaf to 3 peices , and eating 8 pieces per person
will make the contribution as following

The guy with 5 loafs :
Gave 15 peices
Ate 8
Contibuted 7 to the group

The guy with 3 loafs :
Gave 9 peices
Ate 8
Contributed 1 to the group

The Hunter : he took 7 from the 1st guy , 1 from the 2nd guy , so he also ate 8 pieces ..the share for the good shepherds is clear.