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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.

Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Incorrectly.

I don't have legs but I have hands. I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?
A clock.

I am a two digit even number. I am a square of a number, and also a cube of another number. Who am I?

We are 3 friends. Our product and our sum always give the same answer. Who are we?
1, 2, 3.

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

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!

I started learning to drive today. Just a few minutes back, I went down a one-way street in the wrong direction but I did not break the traffic rules. How?
Simple, I was not driving then, I was walking.

I have a mouth but I can't speak, I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?

What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?

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