Sunday, 20 March 2011

Those Canadians!

Answer to last puzzle, as given by D4 (and others):
Fill up the 5L jug and pour it into the 9L jug, pour into the 5L jug again, pour as much possible into the 9L jug. You'll have 1L left on the 5L jug, empty the 9L jug, pour the 5L jug into the 9L and then another full 5L. Leaving you with 6L in the 9L jug.

It's an interesting puzzle because there's so many variations on it simply by changing the volume of the jugs, the final amount of water required, adding more jugs, etc etc... An interesting subquestion is, Given two jugs of defined volume, what exact quantities can be measured from them? Or given a quantity, what two jug volumes can be used to measure it? If not two, what about three?

A New York city hairdresser recently said that he would rather cut the hair of three Canadians than one New Yorker. Why?
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36 comments:

  1. pizzafuckyes20 March 2011 at 22:16

    well who would want to cut down a newyorker? oh wait...

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  2. Found on the Internet Today20 March 2011 at 22:29

    Because that would be more customers and more money. Maybe that's too obvious of an answer.

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  3. Jay20 March 2011 at 22:45

    these questions are getting harder and harder. :(

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  4. The Awesome Alien20 March 2011 at 23:25

    damn im puzzled

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  5. Anonymous20 March 2011 at 23:26

    Because Canadians are bald.

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  6. ErikDesignwork21 March 2011 at 01:26

    Because New Yorkers want complicated cuts? :D

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  7. D22 Zone21 March 2011 at 01:45

    Oh those canadians! :P love the post man!

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  8. neo.enviro21 March 2011 at 03:16

    Cause he'd get three sets of wages? :P

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  9. Unknown21 March 2011 at 03:32

    cause they wash their hair? :3

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  10. SportsGuyBrandon21 March 2011 at 05:07

    The last one had me stumped for a while lmao.

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  11. None21 March 2011 at 06:08

    Because in Canada, milk comes in bags.

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  12. Merlyy21 March 2011 at 06:22

    lol I have no idea

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  13. Erika21 March 2011 at 06:30

    Stumped yet again, I'm afraid.... I suck so bad at this >.<

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  14. Coco21 March 2011 at 07:22

    I think the barber was from Canada and was living in NY. Therefore preferred over their compatriots. Or, simblemente was gay and thought that Canadians are more cute lol..

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  15. Tielknight21 March 2011 at 07:32

    They used a similar water jug puzzle in one of the Die Hard movies i believe, pretty sneaky

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  16. D421 March 2011 at 08:13

    I wouldn't be able to understand the difference between new yorkers and canadians hair, so I'd think that was said simply because they like to cut hair and because 3 people is more than 1..

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  17. Dudemeister21 March 2011 at 08:39

    Maybe it's because Canadians are 30% less likely to bit you.

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  18. Stef Pelgrims21 March 2011 at 09:30

    because than 3 people pay?

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  19. Fix PC Games Admin21 March 2011 at 10:47

    because he rather cut the hair of three canadians than one New Yorker right?

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  20. Mike21 March 2011 at 10:57

    ima trying to solve this but ugh its getting me frustrated, i'll get back at you with the answer though lol

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  21. Trelin21 March 2011 at 11:27

    I don't see any other possibility than 3 customers = more money than 1 customer with the information given.

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  22. 50 Yen21 March 2011 at 11:33

    same as above
    but 99% sure it's not that obvious

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  23. Christophe21 March 2011 at 11:41

    Or maybe it is that obvious. Some riddles thrive off of being that obvious. I'm going with more money, although I feel as though I'm missing something involving the words 'the hair' as in singular hair... maybe.

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  24. J. Reaper21 March 2011 at 12:23

    The hairdresser cuts hair and not people?

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  25. anonyn21 March 2011 at 12:35

    new yorkers are silly. following!

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  26. lazymover21 March 2011 at 12:57

    These are really challenging... Definitely have to follow your updates. :D

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  27. Anonymous21 March 2011 at 12:58

    hehe, always good for a brain tease^^

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  28. DanielM21 March 2011 at 13:05

    Because if she were to cut a new yorker, she would probably get arrested. Cutting the hair of three Canadians would actually ensure money.

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  29. ~DS21 March 2011 at 13:33

    This one's challenging and I'm dying to know, following!

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  30. Meghan Moran21 March 2011 at 13:53

    I wanna say just because then he would have three customers instead of one, but it can't be that simple.

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  31. Big Unicorn21 March 2011 at 14:13

    This sounds more like a joke than a riddle :P

    Supported.
    bigunicorn.blogspot.com

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  32. Teukka21 March 2011 at 14:14

    Canadians dont care too much about result of the haircut? This is too hard :)

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  33. G21 March 2011 at 16:43

    nope I'm stumped

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  34. Liquid21 March 2011 at 16:58

    u keep puzzling me as always lol
    send me the answer plz :P

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  35. Bobomiller23 March 2011 at 01:53

    will post answer after i google it :P

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  36. Unknown25 October 2012 at 01:01

    becoz he would earn three times as much money..

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