Riddles (locked)

I consider riddles an art of thinking so I thought it’s fit well here. post riddles here and see who answers them. here’s mine:
There are five homeless men. I give each a nickel. What time is it?

Time for affordable housing.

(Quarter to five.)

Originally posted by petesahooligan:

Time for affordable housing.

lol.

Math riddle that will keep you up at night. Might be better off in the off-topic section but it might keep this thread alive.

Three salesmen are going to a big business meeting, and decide to share a room to save costs. They walk into a hotel and ask the receptionist “how much for a room?” The receptionist says 30$, so each of the salesmen pitch in 10$ to get the room. They pay up front, and carry their luggage themselves. After they have left, the receptionist realizes that there was a sale on the room and that it was only 25$. He gives 5$ to the bell hop and says to bring it up to the salesmen’ room. The bell hop, being a dishonest fellow takes 2$ for himself, and gives 1$ to each of the salesmen.

Now, 3 salesmen*9 dollars they each payed+2$ the bell hop took=29$

Where did the extra dollar go?

With the bell hop?
Should I post solution or not?

The extra dollar is a mathematical problem. Take that problem and change the way the math is done the answer would be different.

Here’s an old one:
The are two doors. One leads to certain death the other leads to intold riches, but you don’t know which is which. There are also two people there. One always tells the truth the other always lies. Again you don’t know which is which. You are only allowed to ask one question to one of them. What question can you asks that assures you to get to untold riches.

lol 27 – 2 not + 2 = 25 the amount actually payed. This is an old problem I learned back in 05.

Originally posted by conld:

The extra dollar is a mathematical problem. Take that problem and change the way the math is done the answer would be different.

Here’s an old one:
The are two doors. One leads to certain death the other leads to intold riches, but you don’t know which is which. There are also two people there. One always tells the truth the other always lies. Again you don’t know which is which. You are only allowed to ask one question to one of them. What question can you asks that assures you to get to untold riches.

point to the door that the other will point to.

You guys figured me out quickly enough. Got it from my math teacher as a way to get back into math from summer vacation, it is fun (compared to the rest of school) and educational. The whole problem lies in the fact that I’m not following PEMDAS, and doing multiplication before addition. The summary also is pretty much made from thin air, as if you follow the math through the problem you will get 30 dollars total.

And thanks qwerber, that looked like a decent riddle I wanted to figure out…can’t we PM the answers?

EDIT: Small little riddle saying I use:

This sentence is false.

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

I am used to bat with, yet I never get a
hit. I am near a ball, yet it is never
thrown. What am I?

Can a man legally marry his widow’s
sister in the state of California?

Before Mount Everest was discovered,
what was the highest
mountain on Earth?

Some easy ones :)

Originally posted by TheRaginpotato:

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

I am used to bat with, yet I never get a
hit. I am near a ball, yet it is never
thrown. What am I?

Can a man legally marry his widow’s
sister in the state of California?

Before Mount Everest was discovered,
what was the highest
mountain on Earth?

Some easy ones :)

1. Ton
2. eyelashes
3. No for to be a widow your husband must be dead.
4. Mount Everest. It just wasn’t yet discovered.

It is greater than God and more evil than the devil. The poor have it, the rich need it and if you eat it you’ll die. What is it?

Originally posted by TheRaginpotato:

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

I am used to bat with, yet I never get a
hit. I am near a ball, yet it is never
thrown. What am I?

Can a man legally marry his widow’s
sister in the state of California?

Before Mount Everest was discovered,
what was the highest
mountain on Earth?

Some easy ones :)

I got the same answers as conld, although could you also say that the answer for number 1 is the word heavy, because I mean heavy forward is heavy, but heavy backwards is yvaeh which is not heavy :P
SPOILER ALERT!
@Conld Nothing

beginning of every end, the end of time and space.
the beginning of everything, the end of every place.

Originally posted by qwerber:

beginning of every end, the end of time and space.
the beginning of everything, the end of every place.

EDIT: Whoops nevermind. :3
EDIT2: On second thought, is it actually the letter e?

I never was, am always to be. No one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all, To live and breath on this terrestrial ball. What am I?