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Puzzle courtesy of Barry R. Clarke, columnist for The Daily Telegraph and international puzzle expert. The Backward Robber On Monday, a backward robber walked into a drugstore, pointed the gun at himself and handed the storekeeper half of the gold coins in his bag. The storekeeper, seeing his chance to make a handsome profit, demanded that the robber should also give him one third of the coins left in the bag. After counting out this number, the robber had a fit of belligerence and decided to give one half of the coins instead of one third. Exactly the same thing happened on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the robber walking into the store with the same three-digit square number of coins in his bag. By the end of the week, the storekeeper had gained a cubic number of coins. How many coins did the storekeeper receive? Related reading: Sunday Puzzle-5 Sunday Puzzle-4 Sunday Puzzle-3 Sunday Puzzle-2 Sunday Puzzle
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