Pictures and Words

Hello! My name is Peter C. Hayward, and I thoroughly enjoy poking around my incoming search queries.

I get a lot of strange searches leading to this website. This does not entirely take me by surprise: in the three months the site’s been up, I’ve conducted experiments about rotting meat and maggots, unhealthy diets and budgetting and giving up sex, but no post returns more results than the comparison of Ted Bundy and Ed Gein.

Normally they’re fairly standard weird results: “did ted bundy get his butt stuffed”, “who all did ted bundy rape”, “how you know your pregnant show me pictures” (my advice: a pregnancy test is probably your best bet, or seeing a doctor. I do not have pictures of either of those things.)

The other day, I got a particularly intriguing one:

brain teasers: one costs $1, 12 is $2,and it costs you $3 to get 400. What are they?

Honestly? I have no idea. I’ve googled around myself, and I can’t find the answers anywhere. So here’s a challenge to my readers:

One costs one dollar, twelve is two dollars, and it costs you three dollars to get four-hundred. What are they?

First person to post with the correct answer (and the logic backing up your answer) gets to request a post. I’ll write about any topic of your choosing, for at least four-hundred words (and it won’t even cost you three dollars!)

Get cracking, puzzle enthusiasts!

EDIT: The answer is in the comments! Congratulations, Kristen, not only do you get to request a post about any topic, you also got the added bonus of making me feel like an idiot. Try to work it out before checking the comments, if you’re a real man (or woman.)