Can you solve this riddle?

[Strategy]

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room.

A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in.

The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day!

Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent.

Where did the other dollar go??

[fathobo231]

its $27 - $2 that he pocketed : )

Because from the $30 you took the $3 from each of them getting a dollar back so its 27 and from the $2 its 25 ^^

[Stunt_101]

wtf, thats so stupid

[007craft]

yeah how is that a riddle? Sounds like some1 who doesnt know basic addition and subtraction. If you have $30 and each person gets a buck back, thats $27 and a bell hop gets $2, thats $25. I dont see any missing $

[gman]

3 person paid $27 ($30 - $3).
Cost: $25 for the room + $2 to the bellboy = $27.

[LaserEnvy]

I guess the riddle is meant to confuse you.

[CSR]

this one is so old

[HBP]

Wording is meant to confuse. RFDers will never miscount their $.

[CSR]

I guess the riddle is meant to confuse you.

misdirection

[XxXSnake23XxX]

LOL at the riddle!!!

As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Each wife had seven sacks
Each sack had seven cats
Each cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St Ives?

old yes... so relax
wiki does give some logical answers but i love to hear the interpretations of this one

[LaserEnvy]

Wording is meant to confuse. RFDers will never miscount their $.

I guess this forum really is the worst place to tell this riddle.

[Ojam]

LOL at the riddle!!!

As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Each wife had seven sacks
Each sack had seven cats
Each cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St Ives?

old yes... so relax
wiki does give some logical answers but i love to hear the interpretations of this one

Just the guy.

Zeus: No, wait, wait! It's a trick. It's a trick.
John McClane: What d'you mean?
Zeus: I forgot about the man.
John McClane: What man? **** the man! We got ten seconds here!
Zeus: He said, "how many were going to St. Ives," right? The riddle begins, "As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives!" The guy and his wives aren't going anywhere.
John McClane: What are they doing?
Zeus: Sitting in the ****ing road! Waiting on the moor! How the hell should I know?

[Bleys007]

LOL at the riddle!!!

As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Each wife had seven sacks
Each sack had seven cats
Each cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St Ives?

old yes... so relax
wiki does give some logical answers but i love to hear the interpretations of this one

7 wives
49 sacks
343 cats
2401 kits

One - if you are the only person going to St. Ives.
Two - if the man also happens to be going to St. Ives and he decides to ditch his wives since they and their belongings would be too damn expensive to pay for as a RFD'er.
2,802 - if everyone is going to St. Ives, and the man is not a RFD'er.

[HBP]

7 wives
49 sacks
343 cats
2401 kits

One - if you are the only person going to St. Ives.
Two - if the man also happens to be going to St. Ives and he decides to ditch his wives since they and their belongings would be too damn expensive to pay for as a RFD'er.
2,802 - if everyone is going to St. Ives, and the man is not a RFD'er.

Also
0 or 2800, if you consider the riddle is only asking:

kits, sacks, cats, wives
How many were going to St. Ives?

Essentially, it's a dumbass riddle because there are too many interpretations.

[gretzky99]

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room.

A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in.

The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day!

Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent.

Where did the other dollar go??

I remember this riddle was posted in Off-Topic a couple of years ago...