Saturday, February 7, 2009

PUZZLE!

For those of who you did the last puzzle, here is when you will get your answer! Lets recap it. You have 2 buckets; a 6 gallon and a 5 gallon bucket. You need to get exactly 9 gallons of water, how do you do it?

Answer: Fill up the 5 gallon bucket, pour it into the 6 gallon bucket. Fill up the 5 gallon bucket again, pour it into the 6 gallon bucket until it is exactly full ( or what would be one gallon more. 5 gallons, with one remaining to make a full 6 gallons). This leaves you with a full 6 gallons and 4 gallons in the 5 gallon bucket, because you poured one gallon out. Pour the 6 gallon bucket out and put the 4 gallons you have, into the 6 gallon bucket. Now fill up the 5 gallon bucket and you have exactly 9 gallons.

Here is the math: 6 gallon bucket: 0+5+1-6+4=4
5 gallon bucket: 5-5+5-1=4 You pour this 4 gallons into the 6 gallon bucket, and fill up the 5 gallon bucket and you have 9 gallons.







So here is today's puzzle:

There is 2 rooms. One room has 3 light bulbs, the other has 3 light switches. You can only go into the other room once, how do you figure out which light switch turns on which light bulb?


If you figure out that one, try this unscramble puzzle...

The phrase gives a small hint relating to the person's identity:
BEEN IN STAR LITE

3 comments:

  1. Turn light switch #1 on, wait 15 minutes, and turn it off. Then, turn light switch #2 on and now you can go into the other room. The bulb that's on is switch #2. Touch the 2 remaining bulbs, the warm one is switch #1, leaving the last one as switch #3.

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  2. Dammit, you have to use heat transfer??? Here I was thinking that you should unscrew one light bulb and then flip on two switches. Either two would light up or just one (since one's unscrewed). But that wouldn't necessarily tell you which switch leads to what light bulb...

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