Three guys go to the bar and get £30 worth of drinks. They pay £10 (10*3=30) each and the waitress takes the money. Before she puts it in the till the manager notices the guys and tells her “I know these guys, give them a £5 discount”
On the way to their table the waitress decides to give the guys £3 back and keep £2 as a tip.
The guys take a pound each, so instead of paying £10 each they end up paying £9 each (9*3=27).
And the question is: if they ended up paying £27 and the waitress kept £2 where did the last pound go?
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This riddle changes the goal post and then confuses the answer with the original goal.
£30 was the original goal post, but the new goal became £25 with the discount. If we try this scenario, the guys each paid £9 totaling £27, if the original bill after discount was £25, where did the other £2 go? It becomes much easier to see whats going on when you aren’t changing the facts around.
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