I have decided to post some pure logic riddles focusing on some fairly simple reasoning solution to see if any of you is interested. If I got a lot of response, I will post many other riddles. Here is the first one: You have two water containers. The first container is a 3-gallon container, and the other is a 5-gallon container. You want to take 4-gallon of water from a river using just those two containers. You can't use approximation, it has to be exactly 4-gallon of water, and there is no other container except those two. How would you do it?
You fill the 3-gal container up half way and the 5-gal container half way. That would be 4 gallons total. Of course, it cant be that easy and I am sure I missed it somehow.
Nope. You use approximation when you fill the containers up half way. You can't really measure exact half containers. Try again.
If it was, I'm not aware of it. But I got tons of really good logic riddles with pure reasoning solution. No gimmicks. Btw, there are two solutions to this riddle.
You take the water buckets, knock out the hermit living by the river, and steal 4 gallons of arrowhead he's been stocking for the terrorist alert. next question...
how about this? 1. fill up the 5 gallon container. 2. take the contents of the 5-gallon container to fill up the 3-gallon container. (now you have 2 gallons of water in the 5-gallon container) 3. empty out the 3-gallon container 4. transfer the 2 gallons of water from the 5-gallon container into the 3-gallon container 5. fill up the 5 gallon container 6. fill up the 3-gallon container with water from the 5-gallon container 7. you should now have 4 gallons of water in the 5-gallon container. do i win something?
Fill 5 up, pour into 3 empty the 3 out and this leaves 2L in the 5L pour this into 3 Fill 5 again and pour into 3 until the 3 is full which should mean 1L has been taken out of the full 5L giving 4 L
Hahaha... nice try. Like I said, I promise my riddle has a real solution based on fairly simple reasoning.
Ok I got it. I knew there wasn't an easy solution. Fill up the 5 gal container completely and empty as much as you can into the 3 gal container. Then empty the 3 gal container and pour what is left in the 5 gal container (2 gals) into the 3 gal container. Then fill up the 5 gal container again and poor as much as you can into the space that is left in the 3 gal container. That should leave you with exactly 4 gals in the 5 gal container.
drapg and SmeggySmeg got it. This is too easy. I post some others. Another solution: 1. Fill up the 3-gallon container. 2. Pour it in the 5-gallon container. 3. Fill up the 3-gallon container again. 4. Pour it in the 5-gallon container until it's full, and you have 1 gallon water left in the 3-gallon container. 5. Pour out the water from 5-gallon container back to the river. 6. Transfer the 1-gallon water in the 3-gallon container to the 5-gallon container. 7. Fill up the 3-gallon container. You end up with 3-gallon water in the 3-gallon container and 1-gallon water in the 5-gallon container for a total of 4-gallon water.
One of her kids is a hermaphrodite. Too easy, way too easy edit: had strange feeling after i posted this that some might take it seriously, please don't.
The funny thing is, thats the first thing that popped into my mind too. heh heh heh Wrong answer though.
It doesnt matter............Michael Jackson would let all of them sleep with him in his bed..........ooh that wasnt right........
I didn't look at any replies yet.. how about this: fill up the 5, pour it into the 3. This leaves you with 2 in the 5 gallon. discard the 3. pur the 2 gallons from the 5 into the 3. fill up the 5. pour from the 5 into the 3 (1 gallon to fill it). then you have four gallons in the 5 gallon container. right?
