Personal Comment: This is probably my favorite enigma!

Enigma: Where is the missing dollar?

Story: These 3 guys walk into a hotel. They pay 10 dollars a piece for their room which cost $30. After the 3 guys get to their room, the manager realizes that he over charged them $5 so he sends the bell-hop up with the extra 5 bucks to repay them. On his way, the bellhop decides that he will give a dollar each to the men and keep $2 as a tip since 5 is not divisible by 3.

Here's the real problem: Since each guy got $1 back, each only paid $9 for the room a piece - $27 all together. Then you add the $2 the bellhop kept and you get $29 bucks!

Read on to see the answer...

Remember where you find what each guy ended up paying the $9 well, you subtract the 1 from the 10. Therefore once you achieve $27, you subtract the $2 to get $25 - the amount paid for the room.

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