[frookenhauer]

which part of riddle us quick didn't you get....

Here you go chaps! Don't want to sound sexist, but I aint seen any of the ladies discombobulating their brains coming up with riddles or answers....


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?

[Mentalist]

?

divine tax?

[frookenhauer]

nope! the answer is staring you in the face...

[Mentalist]

you took it?

[frookenhauer]

I'm a few thousand miles away dude...

[Mentalist]

meh
there never was a third dollar.

i dunno how to prove it, however.

[Sir Thursday]

Frookenhauer, on Mar 15 2009, 12:26 AM, said:

which part of riddle us quick didn't you get....

Here you go chaps! Don't want to sound sexist, but I aint seen any of the ladies discombobulating their brains coming up with riddles or answers....


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?

The problem is misleading - we don't want the numbers to add up to $30 at all, but rather $25, as that is how much was paid. The three friends have paid $27, and if you subtract the $2 that the bellboy pocketed, you are left with the $25 that the hotel received for the room. No paradox at all .


Sir Thursday

This post has been edited by Sir Thursday: 15 March 2009 - 01:46 AM

[frookenhauer]

Indeed! The whole £30 pounds was a misdirection and a good one.

I'm going to regret this...

Go on STD...Riddle us quick

[Mentalist]

thank you
I recal hearing somthing like this before, but couldn't remeber the answer, aside from the fact that it was nonsensical,

[Sir Thursday]

You've got 6 glasses in a line. The first three are filled with water, the other three are empty, ie. Full, Full, Full, Empty, Empty, Empty. How can you rearrange them so that they are ordered Full, Empty, Full, Empty, Full, Empty by only moving one of the glasses?



Sir Thursday

[frookenhauer]

pour the contents of the middle full glass into the empty middle glass and put it back where it was

[Sir Thursday]

Frookenhauer, on Mar 15 2009, 02:21 AM, said:

pour the contents of the middle full glass into the empty middle glass and put it back where it was

Got it in one. See, I don't always post hard ones .


Sir Thursday

[frookenhauer]

cheers STD...for joining us down here in the rank and file

Hmmm, let me see...This should be fairly straightforward


I am a three digit number.
My tens digit is five more than my ones digit.
My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit.
What number am I?

[Obdigore]

Frookenhauer, on Mar 14 2009, 10:24 PM, said:

cheers STD...for joining us down here in the rank and file

Hmmm, let me see...This should be fairly straightforward


I am a three digit number.
My tens digit is five more than my ones digit.
My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit.
What number am I?

194?

[frookenhauer]

correct!

Riddle us quick Obdi

[frookenhauer]

Obdi you are a useless vagabond and stop slumming in our alleys!

Right...try this on for size chaps...

Which is the longest word in English?

[Stradivarius]

Antidisestablishmentarianisum

[Hinter]

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

[Cause]

english

[Hinter]

@cause - I thought that too but it seems a bit obvious.

Theres one something like flockynockynihilifilipication but I can't find it on the intertube - polly because I've completely screwed up the spelling.