Three ladies go to a restaurant for a meal. They receive a bill for £30. They each put £10 on the table, which the waiter collects and takes to the till. The cashier informs the waiter that the bill should only have been for £25 and returns £5 to the waiter in £1 coins. On the way back to the table the waiter realizes that he cannot divide the coins equally between the ladies. As they didn’t know the total of the revised bill, he decides to put £2 in his own pocket and give each of the ladies £1.

Now that each lady has been given a pound back, each of the ladies has paid £9. Three times 9 is 27. The waiter has £2 in his pocket. Two plus 27 is £29. The ladies originally handed over £30. Where is the missing pound?

Each lady has paid £9.33

Have you heard it before or did you work it out? . All credit if you worked it out lol.

There's £30 originally, £25 is in the till, divide the £25 by 3 and they've paid £8.33 each then give them a £1 pack each and they've paid £9.33 as D-A-L said. The other £2 is then with the thieving waiter.

Its clever how the way that puzzle is phrased can catch you out

Yep sorry I should have explained why I got £9.33

Not seen it before but I ignored the fact it was trying to throw me off and did the maths. Good puzzle though