More Puzzles

Hi,

More puzzles to help you goof off from work...


1. In the middle of a round pool lies a beautiful water-lily. The water-lily doubles in size every day. After exactly 20 days the complete pool will be covered by the lily.

After how many days will half of the pool be covered by the water-lily?


2. You are standing next to a well, and you have two jugs. One jug has a content of 3 liters and the other one has a content of 5 liters.

How can you get just 4 liters of water using only these two jugs?


3. Say the following sentences aloud. If you make a mistake, you will have to start over again -
This is this puzzle
This is is puzzle
This is how puzzle
This is to puzzle
This is keep puzzle
This is an puzzle
This is idiot puzzle
This is busy puzzle
This is for puzzle
This is forty puzzle
This is seconds! puzzle

The 3rd puzzle does not have a question, but there is something in it nevertheless...

Regards,
Devjit

No takers for this???

Hi devjit
The first two are easy
I cannot get the catch in the third one
????
Thanks a lot for letting me exercise my cells(specially the second one)
Regards

Please let me know the answers. I can counter check if I have come out right

regards

Veenasudharsan

OK, I don;t think anybody else is going to try to work out these, so here are the answers :

1. Since the water-lily doubles in size every day, it will cover half the pool on the 19th day, and next day it will double and cover the full pool.

2. 2 solutions to this. FIRST -Fill the 5 liter jug. Then fill the 3 liter jug to the top with water from the 5 liter jug. Now you have 2 liters of water in the 5 liter jug. Dump out the 3 liter jug and pour what's in the 5 liter jug into the 3 liter jug. Then refill the 5 liter jug, and fill up the 3 liter jug to the top. Since there were already 2 liters of water in the 3 liter jug, 1 liter is removed from the 5 liter jug, leaving 4 liters of water in the 5 liter jug

SECOND -Fill the 3 liter jug and pour it into the 5 liter jug. Then refill the 3 liter jug and fill up the 5 liter jug to the top. Since there were already 3 liters of water in the 5 liter jug, 2 liters of water are removed from the 3 liter jug, leaving 1 liter of water in the 3 liter jug. Then dump out the 5 liter jug and pour what's in the 3 liter jug into the 5 liter jug. Refill the 3 liter jug and pour it into the 5 liter jug. Now you have 4 liters of water in the 5 liter jug

3. Just read the second-last word in each sentence...and smile....

Regards,
Devjit