text: riddle #13? three people check into a hotel. they pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. the manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. on the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share 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, totalling £27. the bellboy has £2, totalling £29. where is the missing £1? trick question.  the manager has $25.  the bellhop has $2.  the three men have a total of $3 in refunds.  total: $30.  no missing pound.