Cute puzzle game. Mth S, if you answered anything other than 1000 kyos on the final question, then you did it wrong and you're dumber than me. I answered 1000 and it accepted my answer on the first try. Don't worry though. Everyone else is dumber than me. Nah nah. The loss was therefore the value of the counterfeit note. Obviously. You'd have broken even if it was real. What, did you answer 1600? Only if your neighbor charged you 600 interest on the 600 you borrowed and failed to pay back! And there would have been NO SOLUTION if you only had one flower to pick. You'd just keep piling flowers on each side, never able to get simultaneously rid yourself of all your flowers and make the 2 sides equal. It's like trying to add a bunch of multiples of 3 together to get a power of 2. Can't do it. Much easier to pick 3 flowers and then 7 flowers.
A mensa game book reject is the greatest book ever written? Bah. But it was a worthwhile game.