Hey all,
The following is one of my favorite brainteasers of all time. I torture my peers with it on a regular basis. If you already know the answer, don't blurt it out before the others have had a chance to slog through it... but feel free to taunt them! Or you can e-mail me what you believe to be the correct answer, and I will taunt everyone else for you. Here's a hint: this is actually pretty difficult. In other words, the answer won't make you smack yourself in the head and say, "Of course!" Hope that helps.
Good luck... and don't kill the messenger. 
A king wants to hire a royal adviser, so he invites his kingdom's three wisest men to engage in a contest of wits. He sits them down facing one another and walks behind them, putting a cap on each man's head. He tells them that he has given each of them a red cap or a white cap; in fact, he has placed red caps on all three heads. No one can see what he himself is wearing; there are no mirrors or other ways to cheat. The king says, "Raise your hand if you see someone wearing a red hat." All three men raise their hands. Then the king says, "All right, now, if you know what color your cap is, stand up."
For several minutes, no one moves. Then wise man No. 3 stands up. "I am wearing a red cap!" he proclaims. How did he know?
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NachoBaby
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Jun 13 @ 5:54PM
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ugh.. that was tooooooo easy.
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lintroller
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Jun 13 @ 5:59PM
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Not a chance, Nacho... that tells me you're definitely wrong. Hee hee!
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NachoBaby
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Jun 13 @ 6:01PM
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I thought I was wrong once.. but it was a serious mistake.
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lintroller
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Jun 13 @ 6:02PM
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classic. what a stud you are!
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NachoBaby
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Jun 13 @ 6:06PM
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uh huh now just admit i was right and .. it will be all good!
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swyeter
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Jun 13 @ 6:27PM
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A traveller visits an island inhabited by two types of people, knights and knaves. Knights always tell the truth; knaves always lie. The visitor falls in love with a local girl and wants to marry her. But before marrying he wants to be sure she is not a knave. An island tradition prohibits men from speaking to women until they are married. So the traveller must ask the girl's brother, who may be a knight or a knave and is not necessarily the same type as his sister. The traveller is allowed to ask the brother one question to find out if his potential bride-to-be is a knave. What is the question?
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NachoBaby
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Jun 13 @ 6:37PM
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Swyeter, if I asked a knave if your sister is a knave would he say yes or no?
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Dominus
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Jun 13 @ 7:14PM
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Three businessmen go to a city by train, but their train is delayed and they get there late. They are tired and need someplace to sleep. However, every hotel they go to is full up. They finally go to the last hotel in town and keep their fingers crossed. They get there and ask the desk clerk if they have any rooms left. He tells them all he has is a single room with one bed only. Obviously, it's better than nothing. The businessmen ask how much it is for the room and the clerk tells them $30. That's easy enough. 30 divided three ways is 10, so they each chip in $10 and head off to the room to argue over who gets the bed.
The hotel manager comes back from his break just as they were leaving and asks the clerk: “Who were those guys?” The clerk tells the manager he just sold the last room to them. The manager feels terrible. Those guys all looked like the cat had dragged them in, and now they're all crammed in a tiny room. He tells the clerk: “You should have given them a discount. If they ever come back this way we want them to use us again, not remember us as the skinflints that packed them all into one room.”
So the manager calls the bellhop over to the desk. “Here,” he says, “give this back to the three guys in room 7.” And the manager gives the bellhop 5 one-dollar bills. But as the bellhop is walking down the hall he thinks that $5 won't be split evenly three ways; so the bellhop pockets $2 as a “tip”, then gives each businessman back $1 and tells them it's a discount for their inconvenience.
So this is the teaser. The businessmen originally paid $10 each, so that's $30. But after the discount they only paid $9 each. $9 times 3 is $27. Add the $2 that the bellhop kept as a tip and that brings the total up to $29. What happened to the other dollar?
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dumblonde
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Jun 13 @ 10:49PM
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i hate brainteasers... 
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Ewe_Wish
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Jun 14 @ 9:48AM
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STOP!!!!!! Well you said to stop you if i heard this one!
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Pudge2you
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Jun 14 @ 12:30PM
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I know yours lint. Sweyeters took longer... Dominus is just fucking with us.
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needsomenow789
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Jun 19 @ 1:07AM
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There is no other dollar
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