Crime
The Perfect Machine
Level 3 · Hard
An inventor shows a machine that transforms green sheets of paper into hundred-euro notes that are indistinguishable from real ones. He sells it at a high price, but does not produce counterfeit money during the demonstration.
- Choose a narrator: they read the answer privately and hide it.
- Read the premise aloud. Answers: yes, no or irrelevant.
- When the game ends, mark the puzzle as played.
Hold or double tap. With a keyboard, press Enter.
The answer
The sheets inserted into the machine were genuine banknotes covered with a removable green film. The machine simply removed the coating and returned real money. The inventor sacrificed a few banknotes during demonstrations to persuade a would-be counterfeiter to pay a huge price for a machine that printed nothing.