(Date Posted:06/11/2007 21:08:49)
This is my Favorite Riddle. It could easily modified to have heroes escape. However, they are cursed to have the unseelie reappearing until they can find the dollar.
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 ($10*3=$30) 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 $10-$1(each got back) =$9. Now since 3*$9=$27, Plus the $2 in the bellhop's pocket equals $29.
Where did the other dollar go????
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