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Coqueta · 16/09/2023 20:34

What's the order of the glasses filling up?

Please help with this puzzle
OP posts:
Orangewinegum8481 · 17/09/2023 00:01

4321

johnd2 · 17/09/2023 00:08

Assuming unlimited water into 1....

3 only, and 1 will stay half full.

(6 and 7 might get opportunistically filled once 3 overflows enough if it's 2 dimensional.)

titchy · 17/09/2023 00:13

6 3 4 2 1

Solved. Next!

ImustLearn2Cook · 17/09/2023 00:14

Coqueta · 16/09/2023 20:39

Thank you wise mumsnetters

7635421 was correct

I have now RTFT. You haven’t come back to explain why you think that this is the correct answer.

I don’t see how it could possibly be correct.

I google searched your puzzle.

So far the only puzzle with the exact same picture asks a different question.

It asks you to figure out, in 30 seconds, which cup will fill up first.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUJlBR-Vw-U

Brain Teaser Puzzle - Guess which glass gets full first within 30 secs ?

#SimplyLogical #brainteasers #reasoning If you like to solve brain riddles and puzzles in your free time, then this brain teaser is meant for you! Brain teas...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUJlBR-Vw-U

titchy · 17/09/2023 00:16

titchy · 17/09/2023 00:13

6 3 4 2 1

Solved. Next!

Shit no - 3, 4, 2, 1.

Thank you whoever pointed out the other end of 6's pipe was blocked, missed that Blush

Zonder · 17/09/2023 12:05

titchy · 17/09/2023 00:16

Shit no - 3, 4, 2, 1.

Thank you whoever pointed out the other end of 6's pipe was blocked, missed that Blush

Exactly. Several of us have said this all along. The others are blocked in different ways.

Zonder · 17/09/2023 12:06

Coqueta · 16/09/2023 20:39

Thank you wise mumsnetters

7635421 was correct

It really wasn't.

Coqueta · 17/09/2023 12:51

The answer was a code that opened the next part of the puzzle and 7635421 worked

Clearly the clue question isn't accurate but that answer definitely worked

OP posts:
AlisonDonut · 17/09/2023 13:05

Zonder · 16/09/2023 22:39

Because once 3 is full no more water goes that way and number 1 starts to fill a bit more, until the overflow pipe on the left of 1 starts to empty water into the next one.

Water cannot flow backwards up a pipe. Once 3 is full it overflows.

Zonder · 17/09/2023 16:28

AlisonDonut · 17/09/2023 13:05

Water cannot flow backwards up a pipe. Once 3 is full it overflows.

But the pipe will stop emptying so the water will rise on the first pot up to the pipe for #1.

gloriawasright · 17/09/2023 18:16

6 4 2 1

gloriawasright · 17/09/2023 18:19

64321
I had a second look

MereDintofPandiculation · 17/09/2023 18:40

Zonder · 17/09/2023 16:28

But the pipe will stop emptying so the water will rise on the first pot up to the pipe for #1.

It will only stop emptying when there’s something blocking it. Since water is free to overflow 3, there’s nothing to stop the pipe from continuing to deliver water

OneFrenchEgg · 17/09/2023 18:57

Ladymuck · 16/09/2023 20:36

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

Came to say this

supadupapupascupa · 17/09/2023 19:28

3421

Peacendkindness · 17/09/2023 19:30

Ladymuck · 16/09/2023 20:36

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

this

AlisonDonut · 17/09/2023 20:04

Zonder · 17/09/2023 16:28

But the pipe will stop emptying so the water will rise on the first pot up to the pipe for #1.

Toking Mash Up GIF

What are you smoking?

Zonder · 17/09/2023 22:36

AlisonDonut · 17/09/2023 20:04

What are you smoking?

There's no need to resort to rudeness. Looks worse on you than me.

AlisonDonut · 18/09/2023 00:26

I mean you think that when a glass is full the water will shoot back into and up the tap so it's got to be pretty strong and probably illegal.

AtTyeTim · 18/09/2023 00:27

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jcyclops · 18/09/2023 01:08

There is actually a video of this puzzle (from 1:13)

Note that the "original" question is "Which glass fills first?" and the answer is 3.

If water continues to flow, glass 1 remains partially full, glass 3 will overflow and no water reaches any other glass.

Brain Teaser Puzzle - Guess which glass gets full first within 30 secs ?

#SimplyLogical #brainteasers #reasoning If you like to solve brain riddles and puzzles in your free time, then this brain teaser is meant for you! Brain teas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUJlBR-Vw-U

SmoothSeasDoNotMakeGoodSailors · 18/09/2023 01:12

Isn't it 124? The first exits.

AlisonDonut · 18/09/2023 02:42

SmoothSeasDoNotMakeGoodSailors · 18/09/2023 01:12

Isn't it 124? The first exits.

Gravity. It means the water goes to the bottom of the glass when you start to fill it up. Not the top.

Zonder · 18/09/2023 08:10

AlisonDonut · 18/09/2023 00:26

I mean you think that when a glass is full the water will shoot back into and up the tap so it's got to be pretty strong and probably illegal.

Don't be ridiculous. If a pipe can't empty it just fills up and nothing more can go into it. If the glass can overspill then it depends on rates.

And perhaps don't resort to rudeness just because you think you're right. This is exactly what's wrong with MN these days. People hide behind their phones and lob out comments that I hope they wouldn't be mean enough to say in real life.

CasperGutman · 18/09/2023 09:10

To my mind, "don't be ridiculous" is not less rude than "what are you smoking?"

The first comment seems to be meant seriously and explicitly takes as a starting point that an interlocutor is "ridiculous", i.e., should be ridiculed/mocked for their comically stupid comment.

"What are you smoking?" is pretty clearly meant humourously and/or as an excuse to post a cat gif, so gets a pass from me on that basis.

To address the point, if the pipe from 1 to 3 is full of standing water, the pressure from below is zero (the lip of glass 3 is at the same level as the pipe end, give or take). The pressure from above is not negligible (due to the weight of the pipe up to three). If the water flows anywhere is will flow down the pipe, not up.

The whole thing is very silly though. There is no way to come up with any kind of answer without making all kinds of assumptions about what the diagram represents.

For example, one poster suggested the water would overflow glass 3 and pool on top of the pipes until it ran into glasses 6 and 7. That's only going to happen if these are some weird big flat pipes. If we assume the pipes are cylindrical then any water which lands on top of them will run to the underside locally and drip off, missing the glasses.

If we don't assume the pipes and glasses are cylindrical the all bets are off. What if they have no walls at all outside the plane of the diagram? Then nothing will ever fill up at all! What if there's a pipe we can't see from the bottom of glass 1 on the side facing us, linking it to the top of glass 7? Then 7 fills first. And so on....