Somebody told me this riddle and ive been trying to work it out for weeks…
3 men are staying at a hotel and they want to hire a pool table… they ask the porter to go get one for them. They think that it would be roughly £30 to hire so they each give the porter £10.
The porter goes to get the table and it turns out to be only £25. Because the 3 men dont know the price the porter decides to get himself some cigarettes with the change - thats £2, and so he’s left with another £3 so he gives each of the men £1 back so the men have each paid £9…
3 x 9 = 27 = total that the men paid
27 + 2 (for cigs) =29
Where did the other £1 go???!???!??
Ive tryed working this out from the beginning and also working backward from the end nd im still non the wiser!
Can anyone shed any light?
I apolgize if this has been mentioned before, im new here… hello everyone.
I’ve seen this riddle, and it pisses me off. The riddle contains a deliberate falsehood in how it presents the math to create a phantom missing dollar.