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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
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TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brainteaser; game
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To: mairdie
People never look close. 5 is the cup that will get anything.
To: mairdie
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posted on
11/11/2017 5:17:17 AM PST
by
sneakers
(Trump is the lazer pointer and the media are the cats!)
To: FreedomPoster
63
posted on
11/11/2017 5:18:26 AM PST
by
jpsb
(Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
To: Mercat
To: ctdonath2
>>Scary that it took 24 posts before someone got it right.
I noticed that too. I guess the coffee drinkers needed their coffee first.
65
posted on
11/11/2017 5:18:58 AM PST
by
Bryanw92
(Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
To: mairdie
So Im not an engineer or an expert in fluid dynamics, but this is what Im seeing.
The tubes leading to the vessel on the left will fill first because it is at the lowest point, but because the tube leading to the tube to cup 4 is blocked cup 4 will not get any coffee. And the vessel on the left will fill until it reaches the tube to cup 9 but that is also blocked so no coffee in cup 9.
Then the coffee in the main vessel will reach the higher tube to the upper and lower vessels on the right. The tube to cup 7 is lower and will fill first but it is also blocked so no coffee for cup 7.
After the blocked tube to cup 7 is filled and the level rises to the tube to leading to cup 5 is reached, eventually cup 5 will get the coffee.
But heres the thing. The tube coming off the vessel on the right has a 90-degree angle to a tube of a much smaller diameter, so I would suspect, depending on the volume and rate of coffee being poured in at the top, that it might overflow at the top before it actually fills cup 5.
Am I wrong? Are there any engineers or plumbers here that can weigh in?
To: Mercat
67
posted on
11/11/2017 5:20:04 AM PST
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: mairdie
Aaaargh, #9 is blocked; didn’t notice....
So it’s #5.
Too early in the morning; need coffee....
68
posted on
11/11/2017 5:20:32 AM PST
by
WildHighlander57
((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
To: ctdonath2
It can only be number #5, but is there enough coffee in the jug to fill it up? When you look at the volume that has to be filled before it gets to #5 it’s questionable.
To: cincinnati65
I've seen several different variants of this with MUCH harder configurations. I have no idea why this one would leave Twitter "stumped". Two many twits on twitter, tweeting away twhile life twizzes by them.
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posted on
11/11/2017 5:22:55 AM PST
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: mairdie; Mercat; cincinnati65; DoubleNickle; William of Barsoom; Ouderkirk; Arm_Bears; xp38; ...
Thanks mairdie, hilarious when most of us get pantsed like that. “How many of each animal did Moses take on the Ark?” “Plane crashes on the US-Mexico border, where do they bury the survivors?” Congratulations Mercat, cincinnati65, DoubleNickle, William of Barsoom, Ouderkirk, Arm_Bears, xp38, ctdonath2, Alberta’s Child, HangnJudge, and piroque.
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posted on
11/11/2017 5:23:00 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: MD Expat in PA
Shame on you!
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posted on
11/11/2017 5:23:04 AM PST
by
Daffynition
(The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
To: mairdie
All of the cups have blocks except 5, so...
73
posted on
11/11/2017 5:23:24 AM PST
by
MarDav
To: Daffynition
Some plumbers could also be crack detectives. : )
To: mewzilla
75
posted on
11/11/2017 5:25:34 AM PST
by
TNoldman
(AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA. (Owner of Stars and Bars Flags))
To: exDemMom
Ha! You and I think alike.
To: mairdie
77
posted on
11/11/2017 5:26:33 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: cincinnati65
Also the pipe to the left is lower the coffee would continue to flow to the left and never reach the right side
78
posted on
11/11/2017 5:27:14 AM PST
by
edzo4
(Democrats playbook = promise everything, deliver nothing, blame someone else.)
To: MD Expat in PA; Daffynition
79
posted on
11/11/2017 5:28:28 AM PST
by
mairdie
To: MD Expat in PA
Like you, most have a good sense of humor.
80
posted on
11/11/2017 5:29:30 AM PST
by
Daffynition
(The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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