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Another Great from the Book of Yub!! - Aslan - 04-07-2003
:$ THE MISSING DOLLAR 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????
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The facts in this riddle are clear: There is an initial $30 charge. It should have been $25, so $5 must be returned and accounted for. $3 is given to the 3 friends, $2 is kept by the bellhop - there you have the $5. The trick to this riddle is that the addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times to misdirect your thinking - and quite successfully for most. Each of the 3 friends did indeed pay $9, not $10, and as far as the friends are concerned, they paid $27 for the night. But we know that the clerk will tell us that they were charged only $25 and when you add the $3 returned with the $2 kept by the bellhop, you come up with $30. 
Re:Another Great from the Book of Yub!! - Snoopy - 04-08-2003
*Wacks Aslan with the biggest trout he can find* ;D
Re:Another Great from the Book of Yub!! - Goku1 - 04-09-2003
*Blasts Aslan with a Kamehameha wave*
Re:Another Great from the Book of Yub!! - Snoopy - 04-09-2003
Actually, real life can be far stranger than fiction sometimes. I made a pickup yesterday from a university health clinic. The doctor's name was Stalker :o. Now as strange as that might seem, there's another Dr. working at that campus (it's got a large medical training facility) who has an even more interesting last name. It's pronouned deeeth, but spelt Death! :o :-X :o I wonder how many patients have second thoughts going to them? ;D It's almost as good as a certain law firm(real) that goes by the partner's last names. Their names? Dewey, Screwim and Howe. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D