Riddles

[lumberjim]

Three brothers check into a hotel. The clerk at the desk tells them that the room will be $30 for the night. Each brother takes a $10 bill out of their pocket and hand it over to the clerk. The Clerk hands them their key, and the bell hop takes the bags and the brothers up to the room.

When the bellhop returns, the clerk, being an honest clerk, tells him that he accidentally overcharged the brothers. The room should have been $25. So he tells the Bell hop to take five $1 bills back up to the brothers.

The bellhop, being of the criminal sort, realizes that there are three brothers, and if he just kept two, each would get one dollar back, and all would be even. So he does. The brothers are happy to get a dollar back, and they thoroughly enjoy their stay.

Now.

Let's do the math. If each brother had laid out ten, and gotten one back, they each spent nine. right? and the bell hop kept two, right. ok. three times nine is twentyseven.....plus two is twentynine. they started with thirty. Where's that other dollar, goddamnit?!