Three guys rent a hotel room for the night.

When they get to the hotel they pay the $30 fee, then go up to their room. Soon the bellhop brings up their bags and gives the lawyers back $5 because the hotel was having a special discount that weekend. So the three lawyers decide to each keep one of the $5 dollars and to give the bellhop a $2 tip. However, when they sat down to tally up their expenses for the weekend the could not explain the following details: Each one of them had originally paid $10 (towards the initial $30), then each got back $1 which meant that they each paid $9. Then they gave the bellhop a $2 tip. HOWEVER, 3 $9 + $2 = $29 The guys couldn't figure out what happened to the other dollar. After all, the three paid out $30 but could only account for $29. Can you determine what happened? There are many ways of explaining/thinking about this truly brain bending riddle! It all boils down to the fact that the lawyers's math is incorrect. They did NOT spend $9 3 + $2. They spent exactly $27 dollars. $25 for the room and $2 for the tip. Remember they got exactly $3, in total back. Another way to think about the answer to this riddle is to just pretend that the bellhop refunded $3 to the lawyers (rather than giving them $5 and receiving $2 back). If the lawyers get $3 back and each takes $1. They they spent exactly $27 dollars. The Merchant A merchant can place 8 large boxes or 10 small boxes into a carton for shipping. In one shipment, he sent a total of 96 boxes. If there are more large boxes than small boxes, how many cartons did he ship? 11 cartons total 7 large boxes (7 * 8 = 56 boxes) 4 small boxes (4 10 = 40 boxes 11 total cartons and 96 boxes Three Brothers on a Farm Three brothers live in a farm. They agreed to buy new seeds: Adam and Ben would go and Charlie stayed to protect fields. Ben bought 75 sacks of wheat in the market whereas Adam bought 45 sacks. At home, they split the sacks equally. Charlie had paid 1400 dollars for the wheat. How much dollars did Ben and Adam get of the sum, considering equal split of the sacks?

Every farmer's part is 1/3(45+75) = 40 sacks. Charlie paid $1400 for 40 sacks, then 1 sack costs $1400/40 = $35/sack. Adam got $35*(45-40)=35*5 = $175. Ben got $35*(75-40)=35*35 = $1225. Answer: Ben $1225, Adam $175

Scroll to the bottom for the answers 1. It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you'll die. What is it? Show the answer Link Nothing. Nothing is greater than God, nothing is more evil than the devil, the poor have nothing, the rich need nothing and if you eat nothing you'll die

2. It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening. What is it? Show the answer Link Man (or woman). Crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult and uses two legs and a cane when they're old.

3. I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I? Show the answer Link The letter e. End, timE, spacE, Every placE

4. What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats? Show the answer Link A river.

5. I never was, am always to be. No one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all, To live and breath on this terrestrial ball. What am I? Show the answer Link Tomorrow or the future.

6. At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen. What are they? Show the answer Link The stars.

7. There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it? Show the answer Link A watermelon.

8. What is in seasons, seconds, centuries and minutes but not in decades, years or days? Show the answer Link The letter 'n'.

9. Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is. Show the answer Link It states, "There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?" The third word of that phrase is of course "language." Don't get angry at me, I didn't make it up :)

10. The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it never uses it and the person who uses it doesn't know they are. What is it? Show the answer Link A coffin

11. The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it? Show the answer Link Darkness

12. What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs? Show the answer Link A penny.

13. What English word has three consecutive double letters? Show the answer Link Bookkeeper. An alternate, tricky, answer could be Woollen (where W is a "double u")

14. What's black when you get it, red when you use it, and white when you're all through with it? Show the answer Link Charcoal.

15. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? Show the answer Link An ear of corn.

16. I am always hungry, I must always be fed, The finger I touch, Will soon turn red Show the answer Link Fire

17. Ripped from my mother's womb, Beaten and burned, I become a blood thirsty killer. What am I? Show the answer Link

Iron ore

18. I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be Show the answer Link Few

19. I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns. Show the answer Link Stove, fire, smoke

20. I have four legs but no tail. Usually I am heard only at night. What am I? Show the answer Link A frog. The frog is an amphibian in the order Anura (meaning "tail-less") and usually makes noises at night during its mating season.

21. Half-way up the hill, I see thee at last, lying beneath me with thy sounds and sights -- A city in the twilight, dim and vast, with smoking roofs, soft bells, and gleaming lights. Show the answer Link The past. (Longfellow)

22. When young, I am sweet in the sun. When middle-aged, I make you gay. When old, I am valued more than ever.

Show the answer Link Wine

23. All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held, No throat, but can be heard. Show the answer Link The wind

24. If you break me I do not stop working, If you touch me I may be snared, If you lose me Nothing will matter. Show the answer Link Your heart

25. Until I am measured I am not known, Yet how you miss me When I have flown. Show the answer Link Time

26. I drive men mad For love of me,

Easily beaten, Never free. Show the answer Link Gold

27. When set loose I fly away, Never so cursed As when I go astray. Show the answer Link A fart