Subject: Re: [Humour] Riddles
From: "Kergma, The Chaotic Trickster" <kergma@sv.net.au>
Date: 6/16/1996, 2:07 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com


Another Puzzle for you all ;)

There are 6 glasses, 3 of them are filled with wine in the following order

        empty   empty   full   full    full    empty

By only touching or moving *one* glass, arrange them so they are thus:

        full    empty   full   empty   full    empty

As with all of these puzzles, no special powers are used ;)

Last puzzle was:

Take five coins of the same size (not from someone else) and place them 
such that every coin touchs all the others.

pmak> This is easy... place the first 4 coins like this
    > oo
    > oo
    > Then put the 5th coin on top of them in the middle and each coin 
    > touches all the others.

Most coins in this shadow are round.  Round coins won't all touch in the 
above pattern, and even if they were square, two won't (diagonally 
opposite) won't be touching one another.

Stormwalker > simple... the coins have to look something like this from above.
            > /|\
            > --   (this should be touching at the bottoms of the other 
            >       three, but this is as close as I could get it)  
            > with the fifth coin laying atop the others.

All coins should be touching each every other coin.

BMFrosty> simple brute force works in this instance, place them in glass 
        > bowl, and then hit them with a blow torch capable of melting them. 
        > Admittedly, they will be hard to spend afterwards, but they will
        > definately be touching eachother (especially if you stir them 
        > with a glass spoon). 

Urrrrrrr.  Nice try but no cigar ;)

Kendra> put two on the bottom, like
      > oo
      > then two more on top, angled in such a way so that both are 
      > touching both coins, kinda like
      >  o
      > o o
      >  o
      > only all together...then put the 5th coin upright in the middle 
      > of the top two coins.

Yup, you got it ;)

now solve the next one ;)

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                The Chaotic Trickster - kergma@sv.net.au

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