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Coffee puzzle leaves Twitter totally stumped – which cup would be filled up first?
Daily Mail ^ | 10 November 2017 | Bianca London

Posted on 11/11/2017 4:44:14 AM PST by mairdie

Brainteaser shows a funnel of coffee being poured into different pipes

Poster asked her followers to guess which cup received coffee first

People were left stumped by the confusing brainteaser on social media

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brainteaser; game
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To: mairdie
I won't reveal the answer, which is at the link, but I will warn that this is one of those Duh!!! puzzles where observation is more important than calculation. :-)
21 posted on 11/11/2017 4:52:04 AM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Flick Lives

Article says no.


22 posted on 11/11/2017 4:52:06 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie

Two cremes and sugars!

Number 9.


23 posted on 11/11/2017 4:53:05 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: mairdie

5


24 posted on 11/11/2017 4:53:32 AM PST by Mercat
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To: mairdie
Seriously, if this has Twitter "stumped", we're in sad shape. The answer is pretty obvious, if you look at the blocked paths (where the line is across the pipe). There's only one cup with an unobstructed pipe.

I've seen several different variants of this with MUCH harder configurations. I have no idea why this one would leave Twitter "stumped".

25 posted on 11/11/2017 4:53:35 AM PST by cincinnati65
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To: mairdie

#5


26 posted on 11/11/2017 4:54:15 AM PST by DoubleNickle
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To: FreedomPoster

9 is blocked.


27 posted on 11/11/2017 4:54:19 AM PST by Mercat
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To: cincinnati65

Because our powers of observation suck :-)


28 posted on 11/11/2017 4:54:19 AM PST by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: mairdie

Never done a puzzle with lots of other people. That was FUN!


29 posted on 11/11/2017 4:54:52 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mewzilla

4 is blocked.


30 posted on 11/11/2017 4:55:06 AM PST by Mercat
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To: Flick Lives

Dammit. Just realized #9 is also blocked.

This puzzel is really a puzzle by mis-direction. You start thinking about the level of the pipes, and how water flows, missing the tiny blockages set in place in the diagram.


31 posted on 11/11/2017 4:55:33 AM PST by Flick Lives (The FBI is a taxpayer funded Mafia organization)
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To: mairdie

I was gonna say #4 but I didn’t notice the blockage.It’s clearly #9.


32 posted on 11/11/2017 4:55:55 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: mairdie

Number 5. In fact, it’s the only cup that will fill at all.

All the others are blocked.


33 posted on 11/11/2017 4:56:00 AM PST by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: mewzilla

>>Because our powers of observation suck :-)

Mine sure do. I didn’t notice the width of the pipes at first, and I designed the bathroom plumbing!


34 posted on 11/11/2017 4:56:12 AM PST by mairdie
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To: mairdie

Wow. Missed it. Time for coffee


35 posted on 11/11/2017 4:56:20 AM PST by petercooper ("Democrats are on a collusion course with destiny in 2018." -- Bill Mitchell 5/26/17)
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To: Flick Lives

9 is blocked.


36 posted on 11/11/2017 4:56:20 AM PST by Mercat
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To: mairdie

It’s pretty obvious. Given that there are open pipes only to 5 and 9, it would have to be one of those two. Furthermore, there is a large reservoir near #5 that would fill first, and the pipe leading to #9 is lower than the pipe leading to #5, I think cup 9 would be overflowing without any coffee ever making it to cup 5.


37 posted on 11/11/2017 4:56:26 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: FreedomPoster

It’s number 5.

All are blocked except #5


38 posted on 11/11/2017 4:56:48 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: mairdie
Yikes...#9 is blocked too.Damn!
39 posted on 11/11/2017 4:57:10 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: deweyfrank

I meant 5.


40 posted on 11/11/2017 4:57:12 AM PST by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect)
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