An adorable little riddle.

This Boing Boing post is about a book that seems pretty interesting, but the throwaway excerpt from it really got in my head.

A man buys several loaves of bread at $1 a loaf and sells them at 25 cents a loaf. He does it again and again. Entirely as a result of this, he becomes a millionaire. How?

I think I know the answer, or at least one answer, but I’ll give you a chance to make your guess before clicking on to tell me what you think.

I think the answer is that the man used to be a billionaire, and by repeatedly losing on each transaction his riches dwindled to mere millions. There’s a relatively big problem with this answer, however; when he was a billionaire he was also a millionaire, so he didn’t really become a millionaire.

So I’m guessing that I missed something and the answer is something else–what do you think?

In other news, you should vote tomorrow. It’s your responsibility!