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OK I have to admit we had a lot of fun down here at GeekDad Puzzle Central testing out all the solutions you sent in this week. Our random number generating monkey’s had to lend a hand, and the occasional tail, in order to expedite the process. After all that ale I can assure the choice was random as well as our ability to focus on the name of the winner. So it is with bleary blood shot eyes and a headache that would make a cave troll cry I announce this weeks winner of the $50.00 ThinkGeek gift certificate is Drake P. who is a mathematician in training.
So to recap the story so far we have a tired inn keeper and two hobbits who refuse to leave unless they get two pints to go. The inn keeper has:
- A 4 Pint container
- A 5 Pint Container
- 2 Full 40 Pint Kegs
Here’s how he did it ….
- Fill 5P from K1
- Fill 4P From 5P
- Empty 4P into K1
- Empty 5P into 4P
- Fill 5P from K1
- Fill 4P from 5P This leaves 2 Pints in the 5P container
- Empty 4P into K1
- Fill 4P from K2
- Top off K1 from 4P leaving 2 Pints in the 4 P Container
- Give the hobbits their drinks and get some shut eye
Thanks to everyone who participated in this weeks puzzle. Dave Banks is preparing another brain busting workout for next week so stay tuned. I’m going to sleep this weeks puzzle off, if I live through this I swear I will never write another puzzles involving ale for the rest of my life … yeah right.
