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Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives the bellboy $5 to return to the guests. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult to split among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totaling $27. The bellboy has another $2, adding up to $29. Where is the remaining dollar?
This is a nice nonsense. Each guest paid $9 because they gave $30 and they were given back $3. The manager got $25 and the difference ($2) has the bellboy. So it is nonsense to add the $2 to the $27, since the bellboy kept the $2.

If 0=4, 1=3, 2=3, 3=5, 4=4, 5=4, 6=3, 7=5, 8=5 and 9=4, find the value of 10, 11 and 12.
10=3, 11=6, 12=6. Explanation: Number of letters in the spelling of each figure.

I am pronounced with only one letter but written with three letters. Two different letters are used to write me. My color varies from black, blue, green, brown, grey etc. Who am I?

If it took fifteen men ten days to build a tower, how long would it take four men to build it?
No time at all, as the tower it is already built!

What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the start of every end, and the end of every race?
The letter 'E'.

Fill in the sequence: 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 2 ?
1 Explanation: Number of characters used in writing the numbers in roman numerals.

Some might say we are red some might say we are green. Some play us some spray us and sometimes our color is in between. What am we?
Peppers.

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

I am a part of your body. You can hold me in your left hand but not in your right hand. Who am I?
Right hand.

What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "M"

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