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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thief of Always" data-source="post: 1634159" data-attributes="member: 20762">I'm not sure if I spelled that right, but it's a trivial matter to me at the moment.Last night, a friend told me this riddle his boss at work told him. From what I'm told, this riddle has an actual answer (in other words, it's not one of those trick riddles). I've been trying to figure it out, and I intend to, but I was wanting to throw this at you guys to see if you can get it solved.Okay, here's the riddle. I'm going to try and tell it in the same way it was told to me.Three men look for a place to stay. They find a hotel, and the manager there is willing to let them all have one room for $10 each. The three men give him $10 each for an altogether $30.After a while, the manager started to feel guilty so he called the bell boy. He gives the bell boy $5 and tells him to go give it back to the three men. The bell boy, not having any change, decides to set aside $2 of the $5 and give the three men a $1 each.From this, it reduces the cost of the room from $10 each to $9 each. From that conclusion, they paid $27 altogether (because we all know 9 x 3 = 27). But with the $2 that the bell boy kept, that only makes a $29 total.What happened to the extra dollar?I know I'm overlooking some little detail. Argh.</blockquote>