Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Late nighter
The farmer take his 5 gallon bucket with him to the moonshiner and asks for four gallons of white lightning. The moonshiner only has a 3 gallon jar plus his barrel of unknown quantity. How can he measure 4 gallons with these 3 and 5 gallon jugs?
Re: Late nighter
Fill 5 and use it to fill the three. Leaves 2 in the five. Empty the three into the barrel and then pour the two left in the 5 into the three. Fill the five and use it to finish filling the 3. Leaves 4 in the 5 gallon bucket. ;-)
box for me;-)
I should banish myself to the box for that one;-) Answer too fast.
Re: Late nighter
There is also another solution.
Re: Late nighter
Maybe infinitely many?
The one I was thinking of was
Fill 3, pour into 5
Fill 3, pour into 5 until it is full
Empty 5
Pour remaining 1 from 3 into 5
Fill 3, pour into 5
:-)
I'll Drink to That
Re: Late nighter
Here is another solution, making use of a puzzle from Dan from several days ago.
Tip the 5 gal bucket; pour WL in until the liquid level just touches the rim and the bottom corner. It will be half full = 2.5 gal.
Do the same with the 3 gal bucket. Half full = 1.5 gal.
Pour the contents of 3 gal into the 5 gal. 2.5 + 1.5 = 4 gal.
Love it ;-)
There are a lot of variations on this puzzle with different sized container and with/without a large source to pour back into. This is the first time that I have seen this method of solving any of them. Kudos to you for that one. ;-)