"Well, then tell me, if two mail coaches traveled from Pozsony to Brassó every day, and the same number from Brassó to Pozsony, and if we assume that the journey takes ten days, how many coaches would you encounter on your way, while sitting on a mail coach from Pozsony to Brassó? "I1VVigyázat! "An April Fool's Day problem!
- Well, tell me, if two mail coaches traveled from Pozsony to Brassó every day, and just as many from Brassó to Pozsony, and if we assume that the journey takes ten days, how many coaches would you encounter on the road while traveling from Pozsony to Brassó in one of the mail coaches?
- Twenty.
- No, young man, think it over carefully, not that many.
- Then perhaps there's something peculiar about the question?
- I assure you there isn't.
- In that case, it must be twenty, or rather, the twentieth one would just be arriving in Pozsony as I set out from there, so only nineteen! Isn't that right?
- No and no. I'm sorry, dear young friend.
- Allow me, sir, to calculate it calmly in my room.
- Go ahead, said the old man with a mocking smile.

The young entrepreneur calculated all day, calculating frantically, filling ten sheets of paper with numbers, sweat pouring down his forehead, but he never got a consistent result. Finally, he asked the cook for a handful of peas and laid out the departing mail coaches on the Pozsony-Brassó route with the peas, but only got even more confused.

When Horváth saw that nothing was working, he freed him from his uncertainty.

- You see, you won't make a good entrepreneur, because you can't see the consequences of things clearly, not even on the second level. On the Pozsony-Brassó route, there are the wagons that set out in the previous ten days, plus the ones that set out in the current ten days. So there are forty wagons on the Pozsony-Brassó route. As for your current journey, don't be offended, but there's only one basket on it.

Such a ridiculous man this Horváth was.

This "problem" appears in Kálmán Mikszáth's novel "A Special Marriage." According to his biography, Mikszáth wrote the novel while living in Fogaras.