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Riddles
Topic Started: Sep 4 2007, 09:06 PM (4,809 Views)
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Riddles

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
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towel? tea towel? the thing i dry your car with, or would if i ever washed it first?

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Yep, the answer is towel! :applause:
Do you have a riddle, Cath?
Or should I just add another?

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Ok...I'm just gonna add another now...

What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

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tis*me!,Sep 8 2007
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What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

If anyone cares, the answer is a stamp.

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don't think i would ever have got that

do you remember the one about the three people sharing a hotel room and $10 and $9 ?

can i have the answer to it cos i can't wotk it out

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You mean this one?

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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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that's the one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Answer:
There is no missing dollar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The trick is that the addition and subtraction were done at wrong times to misdirect your thinking.

The hotel room actually ended up costing $25.
Each man received $1 back from what they originally paid: 3 X $1 = $3
The bellhop kept $2.
$25 + $3 + $2 = $30

Another way to look at it:
Each man originally paid $10 each.
Each man got $1 back - so they each actually paid $9 each = 3 X $9 = $27.
The bellhop kept $2. $27 - $2 = $25 (the actual price of the room).

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thank you!!

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You're welcome!
Anybody interested in another riddle or should i just give this thread up?

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I just found it, and you're thinking of giving up this thread! I'm interested. ;)

How 'bout this one.

A man sits in a cabin in the middle of the woods, dead. How did he die?

(You're allowed to ask questions for this, although I'm not allowed to answer them all. :) )
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Well, ok, then. Nobody really seemed to be very interested in it so I was considering giving it up. But since you're interested, I won't.

As to your riddle - is that all the info you have for it?
Did he die of a heart attack?

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Well, ok, then. Nobody really seemed to be very interested in it so I was considering giving it up. But since you're interested, I won't.

Thank you! It was only yesterday that I found it because of the recent activity. :)

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As to your riddle - is that all the info you have for it?

Yup, but that's why you're allowed to ask questions. :)

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Did he die of a heart attack?


Nope, he didn't die of a heart attack. ^_^
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was he killed by a grizzly bear?

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