Originally posted by c00ushion
Wow, this was a very simple riddle with a simple answer, the man who wrote it say's "one" therefore I say "ONE" if you want to agrue the answer go to the man who made it, plus its just a riddle its suppose to be fun dont take it personal if you were wrong, plain and simple.
I don't want to argue or quarrel, no way. I think it is fun to penetrate the question and say that there is another answer than just 'once'. Like a bi-solution.
In chess problems, sometimes one find another solution that the composer hadn't thought of. Same thing here. Nothing more than that.
How many letter are there in the alphabeth? The obvious answer is 26 letters. But the riddler's answer is 12. Why? "T-H-E A-L-H-P-A-B-E-T-H". If the riddler says that the answer is 12 letters and this is the only answer, and every other answer is wrong (there is more answers than 12 and 26, can you came up with more answers?), he is wrong himself. There is more than one answer. And now it's time to have laugh, because it is quite funny after all.
Even in the $25-$5 riddle there is obvious that there is more than one answer, depending of how you interprete the question. My point is, and has always been - there are alternate solutions, and I show the analyze to back this point.