Riddle :



Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????

This post was edited by tomasalot3 on Jul 1 2009 05:37pm

I hate this fucking riddle. I'll let someone else answer it

haha i know, everyone does. its a pain in the ass

Fuck it, I'll answer it.

Your problem is thinking that what the men PAID plus what the bellhop RECEIVED should equal $30. It shouldn't. It's only happenstance that the total comes as close as it does.

This post was edited by TkM on Jul 1 2009 05:40pm

but the charge of the room isnt 27$
its 25$, so the dollar didnt go anywhere

Basically, your just not supposed to think about it as they each paid 9 dollars.... your suppose to think about it as, they paid 25, 3 gets returned and 2 gets pocketed by bell hop, in theory....


25 + 3 + 2 = 30,


just dont multiply 9x3, the missing dollar never went missing in my opinion.

This post was edited by tomasalot3 on Jul 1 2009 05:43pm

so i got it right?
but tkm answered first

whatever helps you sleep at night, i got another one hold on

yes you were gg jesse

I got another one:

What word in the english language has the same pronunciation IF:

you take away 4 of it's 5 letters?