Random Thoughts

First off, PAD has updated how the Retailer Poll is going in his daily blog, and I must say that there really is no surprise there. I'm still looking forward to the final results, and I hope that PAD can get a majority of retailers responding (there are ways to check, I'm sure).

My lateral-thinking brainteaser I posted last Thursday got no response, possibly because it was too easy: "A powerful and rich king had three magnificent and valuable rings that he kept in a gorgeous and ornate box. As he grew older, he decided one day to give each of his three daughters one of the rings. After the giving was done, a single ring still remained in the box. Can you tell me how?"

The answer, of course, is that he also gave the box to one of the daughters. Which begs the question (that is never answered in questions like this) as to why one of the daughters deserved both a ring and a box to keep it in. Did the king give other boxes to the other daughters, or was the one ring left in the box less ornate or valuable than the others? Was he fair to the daughters, or was there something else going on? Ok, so maybe I'm the only person in the world who worries about that... I'll try to make the next puzzle more interesting.