Only 6 sickles a guess!
13 sickles gets you three guesses!
6 wrong guesses gets you a consolation prize!
Buy a hint for just 1 galleon! Quote:
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THE Govoni 
Vesper eyed West, curious about ashwinder eggs...and struggling with saying 'No'. 'Take a chance'...was a lot to think about....
Hmmmmmmm.
"Your Creatures class sounds so much cooler than mine...." Seriously...West's Professor was letting them sale things and make their own money. All they did at Beauxbatons was study Veelas...There weren't many practical opportunities like this..."Okay, stop looking so eager.....Six guesses and a hint...so I can get a prize."
She looked at him expectantly. "Do I pay you first?"
"We have a new professor, she's..." hot,
"pretty cool so far." West provided. And hey, Ves would get to see for herself next term.
"Yep, 2 galleons, 9 sickles." West said, another winning smile and he waited for her to pay him. He made sure that she had before announcing her hint, expression turning dramatic, with the pause and everything.
"Out of the ten jars under the cover, only three jars have an odd number of eggs." West said ingeniously.
"Write your guesses down on this bit of parchment." He offered her a parchment scrap, and a quill.
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THE Govoni Dylan just grinned as Odessa acted as wingman to the sale. "Of course, it's for a good cause..." It was money in his pocket...That was always a GREAT cause. Ahem. His smile widened some. "...Not only is this part of a school assignment...but it's also going towards helping me pay for my education.".....Like getting into the common room, attending Quidditch matches....Stuff like that.
Sly grinning...
So, the pretty lady had decided she wanted three guesses and a hint. Awesome. AHEM. "The hint is...Of all five of my jars, only one is the sum of two single-digit prime numbers...and they all contain less than seven eggs."
"I see." And what was that cause? Ola wasn't stupid, she raised one eyebrow and eyed this boy, payyy for his education? Since when was Hogwarts a school that required fees to attend? Seriously, Durmstrang, so much better. The former Durmstrang Head girl had a moment of thanks for being sent there instead of having to attend Hogwarts with her brother and sister.
Not that Neptune had ever mentioned having to pay for things. She counted out 1 galleon and 13 sickles for the boy as he gave his hint. Five? Only one had five? And of the five jars there were less than seven... and there were... ten jars total?
She mentally decided that there were 29 eggs amongst those 5 jars then, and listening to the hint the other customer bought, decided that meant of the other five jars, two of them had odd numbers. And probably were around the same amount...
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"Wouldya mind writing your guess down here?" West said, sliding quill and parchment to the blonde woman, not wanting to spoil guesses for other people or have any sly folk come along and guess things that others had already narrowed down.
Because he was clever and because he totally noticed this lady had paid attention to Vesper's hint too.
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"Sure." Ola winked at the younger boy and took the parchment and Quill, and wrote her guesses down: 62, 63, 64, and waited for confirmation if she'd got it right or wrong.
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"Selling something?" not that Ira Banner actually WANTED to buy things from any kids but hey, that one there was his cousin technically speaking. He eyed West suspiciously.
He was surely up to something. It was an Odessa thing. And one of the reasons he always thought his cousin Wendy was nuts for marrying Leon Odessa. West here mostly had his father's shifty side in the wandmaker's opinion.
Too charming for his own good, see? ooc: for my reference -
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Post 4 - sales attempts- Vesper Bayliss, + the assist with Pensacola Bott