Difficult Puzzle! Winner Posts New One!!!

[Willow2253]

Whew!
As for the next riddle, try this one.
A man walks into a hardware store and finds what he wants to buy. He walks up to the cashier and asks how much 172 would cost. The cashier replies that it would cost $1.50. He then asks how much 1,275 would cost. The cashier told him it would cost $2.00. What was the man buying?

He was buying numbers for his house

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

He was buying numbers for his house

That makes perfect sense. If the numbers were 50 cents each then 172 would be 1.50 and 1275 would be 2.00! It seems so obvious now

 

[Wezdin]

He was buying numbers for his house

Yup!

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

Ooh, clever! That was a good one.

 

[Willow2253]

Next, what tastes better than it smells?

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Next, what tastes better than it smells?

Humans? Because our sense of taste is better than our sense of smell?

 

[Willow2253]

Humans? Because our sense of taste is better than our sense of smell?

Interesting answer, though not the one I’m looking for. It’s a little more specific.

 

[em_dawson]

Interesting answer, though not the one I’m looking for. It’s a little more specific.

A tongue/mouth?

 

[Willow2253]

A tongue/mouth?

Correct!

 

[em_dawson]

Two cars were involved in an accident in the center of town. The man who was driving a little green car, had overtaken a big black car. The driver had misjudged the distance between him and the on-coming traffic and had to swerve back in, causing the black car to swerve and crash into a shop window.

When the occupants of the cars were examined everyone in the green car was okay, but in the black car was one dead man. However, the driver of the green car was not charged with manslaughter, why was this so?