Please help with this puzzle

[Coqueta]

What's the order of the glasses filling up?

Actually no it's just 3

3 is the only one that will fill.

• 7 never gets any water because the pipe is blocked at 3.
• 6 never gets any water because the pipe is blocked.
• 2, 4 and 5 never get any water because 3 will continue getting water after it overflows, and the pipe to 2 will never be reached in glass 1.

Nope. 3, then 6, then 7. Look at it.

3,4,2,1

3

3 will fill first.
Then 6 and 7 because 3 will overflow and the water will flow into them by flowing around the outside of the pipes.
Then 4, then 2 etc.

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Ooh, almost! But once 6 and 7 are full, the water will just run onto the floor and 4, 2 etc will never fill.

Thank you wise mumsnetters

7635421 was correct

Um…..no. It’s 3. 567 are blocked.

That requires an extra assumption - that the glasses are perfectly level around the lip.

Actually none of them are filling up as the lid is still on the bottle.

But 3 is open to the atmosphere at the top. Try putting water into an open glass that's already full. What happens? The excess water overflows. Pouring it through a tube makes no difference to the outcome.

Yes, the glasses are presented as being level not tilted so I think that's reasonable. Otherwise it's impossible to say whether it's 6 or 7 that fills after 3. If it's level they both fill.

Well it's obviously not watertight there's a massive drop of water coming through!

This last question is the most important.

It's only 3 as it will overflow. How do 6 and 7 fill with blocked pipes?

1, 3, 7, 2, 5, 6, 4

I wrote mine before I read anyone else’s. It will be interesting to see what others wrote.

@Coqueta great puzzle!

13124

Omg! I had to enlarge the picture to see that some of the pipes are blocked. I am using my phone and the screen isn’t very big.

Still haven’t RTFT, but will try again.

In the diagram, the water will overflow down the top/outside of the pipes into 6 and 7

1, 3, 6, 2, 4. My second attempt. Will read more pp and there might be a third attempt 🙂

1,3,2,4

Bollocks that was meant to be 3124

Assuming that the drip 💧 indicates that the cap on the bottle will be removed, are we factoring in a finite amount of water in that bottle? Doesn’t look big enough to fill all the glasses than can theoretically be reached.

Ok third attempt after a quick re-look at the picture.

1, 3, 2, 4

This is for the order of the glasses filling up, not the order of them being filled completely.