Its obviously that sugar based wrapper for Stride(?) gum that disintegrates when chewed. Paper never breaks when you drop it and the sugar based paper dissolves with water.

My answer is right through the power of logic .

Paper can break when you let it fall a high enough distance in a absolute vacuum.

Which is why logic makes you win.

RIDDLE:

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?

HAHA THATS SO FUNNY...
I WANTED TO POST THE EXACT SAME RIDDLE IF I HAD A CHANCE !!!
I'm not gonna post the answer to it. Would be lame.

There is no missing dollar? The riddle was just worded horribly. Imagine there's only one man instead of three paying the bill. So this one man spent 30 dollars. Five was taken out and given to the bell boy (the manager has 25 at this point). The bellboy keeps two of the dollars and returns the three dollars to the one man. So this guy paid 30 dollars and got 3 back. The 27 dollars he did not get back were in the hands of the manager ($25) and the bellboy ($2).

MA's right.

yep... My father already told me that puzzle :l

Here's how I would say it:
Well the thing is that this text confuses something:
The "tip" of the bellboy £2 and the roomprize of £25 are expenses while the 3x£1 is income.
That means the people have spent £30 and earned 3£ which is £27. The £2 tip is PART of these expenses.
You cannot add them again to the £27.

GO MA, your turn for a riddle.

You've been sentenced to death in an obscure foreign country which has a strange law. Before the sentence is carried out, two papers -- one with "LIFE" written on it and one with "DEATH" written on it -- are folded up and placed in a hat. You are permitted to pick out one of the papers (without looking), and if you choose the one with "LIFE" written on it, you are set free. Otherwise, the death sentence is carried out. On this occasion, a mean-spirited acquaintance of yours, bent on your demise, has substituted the paper with "LIFE" written on it with another one with "DEATH" written on it. This person gleefully informs you of what he has done and that you are doomed to die. You are not permitted to speak to anyone about this misdeed, nor will you have a chance to switch the papers or the hat yourself in time. How will you avoid certain death?

I had a girl pose this one to me. I recognized the error right off. She would not for anything in the world believe me when I spelled it out to her. She seems to think that there is no answer, its an unsolvable problem.

Ridiculous.

Ask chuck norris to save you. WHERE IS YOUR LOGIC NOW?

You take out one Paper and say this is NOT the one I pick and open it.

Another idea: You take both papers out the same time and open them simultaneously.

Tell your friend to go first?

Call immigration on yourself since you in some foreign land/country?

When you pick one, and the executioner asks you what you pulled you say "LIFE" and throw back the paper back in the hat.

Knock out the executioner, grab his weapon, take a hostage, get a gun, work your way from there. Theres probably a 1 in a trillions odds that thisll succeed, but its worth a shot ;D

You strategically rip the paper while feeling around the hat, then spit on it to stick it back together forming the word LIFE.

EDIT: Or you just refuse to draw a paper, they can't make you

After you draw one of the papers, swallow it. The jailer will be forced to check the remaining paper to determine what the one you drew said. The jailer will of course see a paper with "DEATH" written on it, assume you drew the one with "LIFE" written on it, and set you free.

Yup. He's got it.

No way he thought of that, GOOGLER!