Riddle me this

[Ryanizme]

May 5, 2015 21:19:24 GMT -5 Night said:

Didn't someone already say tomato or watermelon?

missed that.

watermelon is right.

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground.
How come?

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?

13 people came into a hotel with 12 rooms and each guest wanted his own room. The bellboy solved this problem.
He asked the thirteenth guest to wait a little with the first guest in room number 1. So in the first room there were two people. The bellboy took the third guest to room number 2, the fourth to number 3, ..., and the twelfth guest to room number 11. Then he returned to room number 1 and took the thirteenth guest to room number 12, still vacant.
How can everybody have his own room?

[Pøĸē]

#1
I feel like this has something to do with homonyms.

#2
Each individual paid $10 and got one back. Thus they paid $9 each. The manager has $25. You can either add the bellhop's $2 to the managers $25 or subtract it from the individuals' $27. You should not add the remaining $2 to the individuals' $27.

#3
The 1st and 2nd guests are in room 1 but at the end you're saying that the 2nd guest is the 13th guest. You're leaving someone out.

[bigballofyarn]

1. It's probably exactly what it says. The wind blew them away. I feel like this is intentionally leaving out critical information or that it is poorly written. Or, maybe ONE pear was left, so the word "pears" is only technically incorrect.

2.
Person # 1 $10 + $1 = $11
Person # 2 $10 + $1 = $11
Person # 3 $10 + $1 = $11
Total = $33

Bellboy $5-$3 = $2

Total cash = $35... ($30 from the people and $5 from the manager). The riddle can't do math.


#3 The 2nd guest was never put into a room according to the problem...

[Ryanizme]

Yeah they were kinda dumb riddles I found.

That's the thing with riddles. When we figure them out we think they are so dumb but if we can't, we feel dumb and think that riddle is quite something. OK, someone else post so I can play.

[Yankeefan1955]

Question: There is a story that a man and not a man
Saw and did not see a bird and not a bird
Perched on a branch and not a branch
And hit him and did not hit him with a rock and not a rock.

[How is this possible?]

[Ryanizme]

one man saw the bird and the other person (a woman) did not.

someone call animal cruelty.