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BECK
Thu May 13, 2010 10:18 am


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googled the answer, I know...cheating. :roll:



The main "trick" about this puzzle is to ignore the magic number 30.  We're not concerned with that figure anymore.  The ultimate number we're trying to get to now is 25, because that is now the price of the room.  And simple logic in either case shows us that 27 - 2 (or 30 - 5 using the modified numbers) is equal to the new magic number of 25.  The puzzle just yields a number so close to 30 that it confuses the readers into thinking that it's the number you're striving to achieve - when in fact it's 25. 

