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    None of them. That bottle isn’t big enough to fill any one glass.
    Engineers: fixing problems you didn't know you had in ways you don't understand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy S View Post
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    Out of glass 1
    Into glass 3
    Can't go into glass 7 as the pipe is not connected through the glass
    Cant go into glass 6 as the end of the pipe is blocked

    So glass 3 gets filled up
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    None of them!

    Glass 3 will start to fill first, because the feed to that is the lowest of the outlets from glass 1, and will continue to fill because the outlets from it are blocked in one way or another.
    However in order to fill glass 3 the level of beer in glass 1 has to be greater than the level of the outlet, so once the bottle has been emptied there will always be some beer in glass 1, just below the level of the outlet. Thus no glass gets FULL - the contents of the bottle are shared between glasses 1 and 3.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    None of them!

    Glass 3 will start to fill first, because the feed to that is the lowest of the outlets from glass 1, and will continue to fill because the outlets from it are blocked in one way or another.
    However in order to fill glass 3 the level of beer in glass 1 has to be greater than the level of the outlet, so once the bottle has been emptied there will always be some beer in glass 1, just below the level of the outlet. Thus no glass gets FULL - the

    contents of the bottle are shared between glasses 1 and 3.
    OK the glasses are half pint , Happy now
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    They should have shown a beer tap rather than a bottle; as Barry says there isn't enough beer in the bottle to fill any one glass the way they're arranged (assuming glasses & bottle are represented to scale).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy S View Post
    They should have shown a beer tap rather than a bottle; as Barry says there isn't enough beer in the bottle to fill any one glass they way they're arranged (assuming glasses & bottle are represented to scale).
    It was supposed to be fun , not a scientific project

    I will keep the next one to myself
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    It was a bit of "fun" - well I enjoyed thinking about the puzzle.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    It was a bit of "fun" - well I enjoyed thinking about the puzzle.
    Likewise, thanks for posting Al.

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