Local Radio Teaser ( These are all true)

[oldmisery]

A man invested in a new business called the Hexagon Company and made lots of money. His wife invested in a similar business called the Pentagon company and lost everything. Why ?

[another-view]

Because his wife had no business sense?
No customers?

This could be anything

[scotman]

hexagon comes first in alphabetically arranged directories

[oldmisery]

Thanks scotman, this is the type of lateral thinking that is used so I'll give this a try.

[another-view]

Not many people would buy the services of the first person they saw in the phone book.

[TTG]

That's the AA bgrd then.

:-)

[factor-fiction]

Both companies made/sold tiles. Regular hexagonal tiles have 6 sides and tessellate (fit together perfectly) so people bought them . Regular pentagons ( 5 sides) don't tessellate so nobody bought them.

[another-view]

There's no hint to tile making in the question.

[factor-fiction]

Yes, A-V. That's because if the riddle had mentioned tiles there would hardly be a riddle left to solve. Oldmisery wanted lateral thinking.

[oldmisery]

I won't know the aswer until Sunday 1st Nov. So will post the answer p.m. on the day.
Many thanks for the answers and the interesting discussion.

[oldmisery]

Spot on, factor30, your's was the only successful answer given before clues were given. Thanks again.

[another-view]

How obscure.