You must be precise as one ounce or more or less will cause a grid of spikes to fall from the ceiling.
This must be solved on a sheet of paper. Not by an intelligence check.
I just came up with this puzzle yesterday and I have a feeling this was done several times already. Here is the puzzle. The party enters a room with a fountain in the center. Next to it are 2 jugs, a 3 gallon and a 5 gallon. You must fill one of the jugs with exactly 4 gallons of water and place it on the scale to open the doors.
You must be precise as one ounce or more or less will cause a grid of spikes to fall from the ceiling.
This must be solved on a sheet of paper. Not by an intelligence check.
Yes this puzzle was actually on Die Hard with a Vengenece. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson was in Central Park. They had to do the exact puzzles to disable the bomb that was in a briefcase next to the fountain of elephants.
Pour what's left in the five into the receptacle, and then repeat for another 2.
Any idea how solve it?
Jug A = 3 gallons
Jug B = 5 gallons
1) Fill jug B
2) Transfer 3 gallons from jug B to jug A; jug A has 3 gallons (full), jug B has 2 gallons
3) empty jug A
4) transfer 2 gallons from jug B to jug A; jug A has 2 gallons, jug B is empty
5) fill jug B
6) transfer 1 gallon from jug B to jug A; jug A has 3 gallons (full), jug B has 4 gallons
I just came up with this puzzle yesterday and I have a feeling this was done several times already. Here is the puzzle. The party enters a room with a fountain in the center. Next to it are 2 jugs, a 3 gallon and a 5 gallon. You must fill one of the jugs with exactly 4 gallons of water and place it on the scale to open the doors. You must be precise as one ounce or more or less will cause a grid of spikes to fall from the ceiling. This must be solved on a sheet of paper. Not by an intelligence check.
Or with two measuring cups and a bucket of water.
I just came up with this puzzle yesterday and I have a feeling this was done several times already. Here is the puzzle. The party enters a room with a fountain in the center. Next to it are 2 jugs, a 3 gallon and a 5 gallon. You must fill one of the jugs with exactly 4 gallons of water and place it on the scale to open the doors. You must be precise as one ounce or more or less will cause a grid of spikes to fall from the ceiling. This must be solved on a sheet of paper. Not by an intelligence check.
I fill the jug with my waterskin 8 times. (waterskin holds 4 lbs of liquid = 1/2 gallon)
Yes this puzzle was actually on Die Hard with a Vengenece. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson was in Central Park. They had to do the exact puzzles to disable the bomb that was in a briefcase next to the fountain of elephants.
A variation on this has been around for a very, very long time. The earliest I've seen is from 1908, in the Host's puzzle from the Canterbury Puzzles.