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Easy riddles... let see how long it takes someone to get them!
RoboG2:
Three guys go into a hotel to share a room. The desk clerk tells them the room is $30.00, so they each put in ten dollars and go up to their room. Later, the clerk realizes he made a mistake, and the room is only $25.00. So, he gives the bellhop five dollars to take back to them. But the bellhop is a little crooked and figures they can't split five dollars between the three of them evenly, so he gives them back three dollars and pockets two. Each guy paid ten dollars and got one dollar back, so each guy paid nine dollars. Nine times three is twenty-seven, plus the two the bellhop kept makes twenty-nine. Where's the other dollar???
RoboG2:
Here's another:
You are in the attic of a building. On the wall are three numbered light switches.
Down in the basement are three numbered light bulbs, each is connected to one switch. You don't know which switch is connected to which light. You do know that they are all off to start with.
You can do what you like with the switches, but once you leave the attic, the attic door will lock and you can't get back in.
The only place you can go to is the basement (three floors down).
Which bulb is connected to which switch?
nipsmg:
--- Quote from: RoboG2 on March 17, 2005, 07:47:00 am ---Three guys go into a hotel to share a room. The desk clerk tells them the room is $30.00, so they each put in ten dollars and go up to their room. Later, the clerk realizes he made a mistake, and the room is only $25.00. So, he gives the bellhop five dollars to take back to them. But the bellhop is a little crooked and figures they can't split five dollars between the three of them evenly, so he gives them back three dollars and pockets two. Each guy paid ten dollars and got one dollar back, so each guy paid nine dollars. Nine times three is twenty-seven, plus the two the bellhop kept makes twenty-nine. Where's the other dollar???
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No they didn't each pay $9. They each paid something like $8.33 a piece, and the bellhop stole from them.
Hotel clerk has $25
Bellhop has $2
Man 1 has $1
Man 2 has $1
Man 3 has $1
do the math.
Cute way of playing w/ people's heads tho . :-D
nipsmg:
--- Quote from: RoboG2 on March 17, 2005, 07:48:45 am ---Here's another:
You are in the attic of a building. On the wall are three numbered light switches.
Down in the basement are three numbered light bulbs, each is connected to one switch. You don't know which switch is connected to which light. You do know that they are all off to start with.
You can do what you like with the switches, but once you leave the attic, the attic door will lock and you can't get back in.
The only place you can go to is the basement (three floors down).
Which bulb is connected to which switch?
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The light bulbs are numbered.
So are the switches.
Match them.
Sephroth57:
--- Quote from: RoboG2 on March 17, 2005, 07:47:00 am ---Three guys go into a hotel to share a room. The desk clerk tells them the room is $30.00, so they each put in ten dollars and go up to their room. Later, the clerk realizes he made a mistake, and the room is only $25.00. So, he gives the bellhop five dollars to take back to them. But the bellhop is a little crooked and figures they can't split five dollars between the three of them evenly, so he gives them back three dollars and pockets two. Each guy paid ten dollars and got one dollar back, so each guy paid nine dollars. Nine times three is twenty-seven, plus the two the bellhop kept makes twenty-nine. Where's the other dollar???
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not really a ridlle just wrong math.. the 3 guys paid 28 total, the bellhop kept 2.