F's puzzler - (troubleshooting training:-)

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

Susanofthewest,

At 11:05 6/23/98, you wrote:
>At 12:49 PM 6/23/98 -0500, Conrad wrote:
>>At 12:38 6/23/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Okay, I'll play your silly game ....
>
>"Include only the capital F's in both sentences."
>
> _Literally_ speaking, we are asked to count the "F's". There is only ONE
>occurence of the combination "F's". It is in the initial sentence. So the
>answer is ONE. 
>

Let's imagine that we were literally SPEAKING:

If we only count those which SOUND like "F" versus "V", we can lower the
counts by 3.

So... We now have rationalized the following correct answers:

1,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8.

==Quod capita tot sensus==

Kinda like the answers you get from the IRS. :-{




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