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As I’m a fan of mind games and puzzles, I thought of sharing some of these puzzles here, so here is a quick simple one as a start.

Joe and Max decided to cook five cups of rice, Joe had put three of them where Max had put two, after the dinner was ready, their friend Charlie joined them, and all of them them had the same quantity of food (one third), after they finished their dinner and before Charlie left, he gave them $50 for his share, and now Joe and Max are confused on how they should divide this amount between them fairly.

UPDATE: It seems that either I don’t have enough users to reply to this puzzle or the users I got didn’t bother solving it :) in both cases here is the solution:

• Charlie paid $50 for his share of the meal, which is one third the full meal, from this we can conclude that the full meal price is $50 x 3 = $150.
• The meal consisted of 5 cups of rice, so each cup price is $150 / 5 = $30.
• Joe gave 3 cups of rice, that worth $30 x 3 = $90, but he had his one third part of the meal that worth $50, so he should get: $90 - $50 = $40.
• Max gave 2 cups of rice, that worth $30 x 2 = $60, but he had his one third part of the meal that worth $50, so he should get: $60 - $50 = $10. :)