Ringo's Riddle

[freeringo]

No wrong
you are wrong

[freeringo]

There are 13 pennies on the desk. They are all in one group, 5 of them being heads and 8 being tales. You have to split them into 2 groups with the same amount of heads in both groups (you can flip the coins). The trick is, you have to do it in the dark, not knowing which coins are which.


This might take a while

[eejit101]

Touch. Feel the indentations. I could do that

[freeringo]

That doesn't count
There is a mathmatical answer

[freeringo]

The first answer is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am related to him and the fictional character was Hiawatha.

The answer to the coin riddle is
Take 5 pennies from the group of 13, and flip all of them.

If I grabbed all 5 heads, then they become tails, and the groups are even at 0apiece. If I grabbed 5 tails, then they all become heads, and they are all even at 5 heads apiece. This as also true for any combination of heads and tails...