Sunday Puzzle-18 |
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| Sunday, 26 August 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Puzzle courtesy of Barry R. Clarke, columnist for The Daily Telegraph and international puzzle expert. The Baffled Brewer  Burper the brewer had just received an order for three barrels of beer, containing 16 litres, 10 litres, and 7 litres. Now he had the correct total quantity in three equal-sized barrels, however, the barrels were all half full. His problem was to produce the correct quantities in each barrel. To help him he had three measuring jugs having capacity three litres, two litres and one litre. Since Burper was clearly in a fix, he telephoned his mother on her cellphone who gave the following advice. Each measuring jug must be used once only to transfer a full jug of beer from one barrel to another. Furthermore, each barrel must be involved in at least two transfer operations so that on each occasion, there is either a gain or loss of beer. What operations are required? Related reading: Sunday Puzzle-17 Sunday Puzzle-16 Sunday Puzzle-15 Sunday Puzzle-14 Sunday Puzzle-13 Sunday Puzzle-12 Sunday Puzzle-11 Sunday Puzzle-10 Sunday Puzzle-9 Sunday Puzzle-8 Sunday Puzzle-7 Sunday Puzzle-6 Sunday Puzzle-5 Sunday Puzzle-4 Sunday Puzzle-3 Sunday Puzzle-2 Sunday Puzzle 
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