Apples and Friends Puzzle
The Puzzle:
You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple. |
Now all your friends have one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.
How?
You give an apple each to your first nine friends, and a basket with an apple to your tenth friend.
Each friend has an apple, and one of them has it in a basket.
(Alternative answer: one friend already had an apple and put it in the basket.)