NationStates Jolt Archive


A riddle!

Neo Kervoskia
03-12-2005, 03:54
Here's a riddle I was sent.

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 are each out of pocket $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?

Guess what it is and you get 50 harem points!
FireAntz
03-12-2005, 03:57
The math is wrong. They are out of pocket 9.3333333333333333333repeating, because 30 dollars, minus the bellhops 2 = 28 buckaroos!.
*holds out hand* Harem points please?
Dinaverg
03-12-2005, 03:58
2 is what the bellhop has, 27 is what they lost (of which the two the bellhop has is a part), 25 is in the registers, 2 in the bellhop's pocket, 3 with the geusts.


P.S. That riddle is SO very old...
Secluded Islands
03-12-2005, 04:01
P.S. That riddle is SO very old...

yep. i heard that in highschool. (nearly 4 years ago)
Vetalia
03-12-2005, 04:01
It didn't go anywhere. There was originally $30, but 5 was given back. The bellhop took 2, so that leaves 28 dollars. Three more was returned to the friends, resulting in 25 dollars.
Psychotic Mongooses
03-12-2005, 04:01
Surely the bellhop was tipped :p
The Black Forrest
03-12-2005, 04:02
The math in the story is done in the wrong order.

There is the charge of $30 that should have been $25. The $5 is accounted for and returned. They got $3 back and he kept $2.
NERVUN
03-12-2005, 04:03
Nowhere, each guy paid not only the cost, but the tip.

Snopes, as usual, has it. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/trivia/dollar.htm
FireAntz
03-12-2005, 04:03
I WANT MY HAREM POINTS!
Neo Kervoskia
03-12-2005, 04:12
Everyone here gets 50 harem points. When you get to 500, you may enter the harem.
Secluded Islands
03-12-2005, 04:13
Everyone here gets 50 harem points. When you get to 500, you may enter the harem.

well i already had 450. so does that mean i can go ahead and enter?
Neo Kervoskia
03-12-2005, 04:14
well i already had 450. so does that mean i can go ahead and enter?
Ask Tribes on that one.
FireAntz
03-12-2005, 04:16
*Kicks Neo Kervoskia in the nuts, takes his keys, unlocks the Harem door, and strools in while whistling*
The South Islands
03-12-2005, 04:17
*Kicks Neo Kervoskia in the nuts, takes his keys, unlocks the Harem door, and strools in while whistling*

*castrates Fireantz with Guava fruit*
Neo Kervoskia
03-12-2005, 04:19
*Kicks Neo Kervoskia in the nuts, takes his keys, unlocks the Harem door, and strools in while whistling*
It's not that simple. If you don't have enough points to enter, but break in anyway, then you'll be trapped in the sodomy chamber.
Amecian
03-12-2005, 04:24
-snip- break in anyway, then you'll be trapped in the sodomy chamber.

* cringe *

* pops a drink, leans back in chair waiting for the horrified/terrified screams to start *
FireAntz
03-12-2005, 04:28
It's not that simple. If you don't have enough points to enter, but break in anyway, then you'll be trapped in the sodomy chamber.
*Kicks Neo Kervoskia in the nuts, puts his keys back in his pocket, and strolls OUT whistling*