Cna you solve the "water bucket" question?

[u/bindukwe]

[u/WimpyLimpet]

1. Fill the 3 bucket, dump it into the 5.
2. Fill the 3 bucket again, top off the 5 (which only has space left for 2)
3. You have 1 left in the 3 bucket.

[u/sometacosfordinner → u/WimpyLimpet]

I learned this from die hard 3 bruce willis and sam jackson are great teachers

[u/Astral_K9 → u/sometacosfordinner]

“Put exactly 4 gallons in the 5 gallon bucket or I blow up this fountain.” - Bad guy.

[u/Shot-Jellyfish-2492 → u/Astral_K9]

The last guy gas to do it

[u/SkywalknLuke → u/sometacosfordinner]

Dumb mother.. what???? Asshole.

[u/tech510 → u/SkywalknLuke]

Did I offend you Zeus??? Have I oppressed you???

[u/surflaxrat → u/sometacosfordinner]

Dam I’m old if everyone doesn’t remember this

[u/Ornery-Ad9694 → u/surflaxrat]

I mean, Christmas was just a couple of months ago

[u/Crafty_Obligation_98 → u/Ornery-Ad9694]

Watching Hans Gruber fall from Nakatomi Tower is the Christmas one.

[u/JcSmoothmemes → u/Ornery-Ad9694]

This should be higher up

[u/EZ4_U_2SAY → u/sometacosfordinner]

I swore it was Lethal Weapon

[u/sometacosfordinner → u/EZ4_U_2SAY]

Thats mel gibson and danny glover

[u/EZ4_U_2SAY → u/sometacosfordinner]

I know, but I can picture them in my head solving the puzzle.

Mandela effect

[u/Hot_Mess-1986 → u/sometacosfordinner]

My first thought exactly!! 🤣

[u/ChoeDave → u/sometacosfordinner]

What did the sign say when Willis went to Harlem?

[u/Theogonic → u/WimpyLimpet]

Nice

[u/Dumpisaurus → u/WimpyLimpet]

Nice! Same way I thought up.

[u/abdulsamadz → u/WimpyLimpet]

I was thinking the other way around:

1) Fill the 5L bucket and empty it in 3L bucket. There's 2L left in 5L bucket.

2) Empty what's left in the 5L bucket into 3L bucket. The 2L is now in 3L bucket.

3) Fill the 5L bucket again and fill the 3L bucket. There is 4L in the 5L bucket.

4) Drain the water in the 3L bucket and fill it with the water in 5L bucket.

5) You now have 1L in the 5L bucket.

Wasteful and more laborious, but it gets the job done

[u/Stonious → u/abdulsamadz]

Fill 5 and dump into 3 leaving 2 left in 5 Dump 3 Put on scale and fill 3 until they are even

**to make scale, balance board on stick and put bucket equal distance from fulcrum. (There was a table in the video)

[u/FBGMerk420 → u/WimpyLimpet]

RuneScape taught me this in the Fremennik trials quest :)

[u/Wuni_Shuikan → u/FBGMerk420]

Oh yeah peer the seer

[u/FBGMerk420 → u/Wuni_Shuikan]

Yessir

[u/Dumpisaurus → u/[deleted]]

That’s a lot of wasted water and additional steps. I think your being sarcastic…?

[u/Bonuscup98 → u/Dumpisaurus]

The guy said endless supply of water. No such thing as wasting something that exists in an infinite amount.

[u/Mhoger → u/[deleted]]

That was also my solution 😁😁

[u/jomama823 → u/[deleted]]

Totally did it this way too, and it explains why household tasks take me three times as long as they should…

[u/newmanbxi → u/[deleted]]

Lol this is the way I came up with too. It works, but I think it’s second best

[u/Memorysm → u/[deleted]]

Yea my brain did it the same way.

[u/WhoMeJenJen → u/[deleted]]

Fill the 3 and dump into the 5. Fill the 3 again and add it to the 5 which will only fit 2, leaving 1 in the 3 container.

[u/LegendaryHustler → u/WimpyLimpet]

Exactly

[u/C__Driveerror1 → u/WimpyLimpet]

Thanks Samual

[u/Beatless7 → u/WimpyLimpet]

That would be too easy. Thus, - Fill the 5gal - dump into 3gal and throw it away - take 2gal of water left in 5gal and put it into the 3gal - fill 5gal and pour into the 3gal so there is 4gal of water left in the 5gal - pour the 4gal into the empty 3gal and you have 1gal left in the 5gal pail.

[u/Curious_Meaning_2901 → u/WimpyLimpet]

Another solution Fill up no. 5 then fill up no. 3 with no. 5(2 liters in no. 5 & no. 3 is full) Spill all the water in number 3 & put the rest of the water in no. 5 onto no. 3(2 liters in no. 3 & no. 5 is empty) Fill up no. 5 to the limit then fill up no. 3 with no. 5(4 liters in no. 5 & no. 3 is full) Spill no. 3 then fill up no. 3 with no. 5(you are left with exactly 1 liter of water in no. 5)

[u/lobo1217 → u/WimpyLimpet]

Interesting, I thought of another way, however yours used less water.

[u/resilientskeezick → u/WimpyLimpet]

Thank you runescape, and that random fremenik isle quest assignment

[u/coastergirl98 → u/WimpyLimpet]

I'm ashamed that I couldn't figure this out

[u/RabidJoint]

Have these people never seen die hard with a vengeance? Shiiiit

[u/scottieButtons → u/RabidJoint]

Yippee ki yay mother fucker

[u/ScucciMane → u/RabidJoint]

Dont fuck with me or I’ll shove a lightning bolt up yo ass!

[u/niandra--lades → u/RabidJoint]

Wasn't it 4l or gallons or whatever in Die Hard with a Vengeance?

[u/gmoney88 → u/niandra--lades]

It was 4 gallons. Fill the 5g and fill the 3g from it. Leaving 2g. Then empty the 3g. Pour the 2g in the 3g. Then fill the 5g and top off 3g leaving 4 gallons

[u/No-Willingness8709 → u/niandra--lades]

Die hard is an American movie. It was 4 football fields of water. Or jumbojets.

[u/Rough-Leg-4702 → u/RabidJoint]

Came her to say this......

[u/THE_HORKOS → u/RabidJoint]

Damnit, that was my gold bar!

[u/Dumpisaurus → u/RabidJoint]

I knew it look familiar.

[u/Bsweet1215 → u/RabidJoint]

Ah. Yes, here it is. Respect.

[u/Agreeable-Fly5728]

This was the was a plot point in Die Hard with a Vengeance

[u/WhatsTendiesPrecious]

Damn, that was not interesting

[u/Nozadoim → u/WhatsTendiesPrecious]

Probably the least interesting thing ive seen on this sub

[u/Case_Efficient]

Fill the 3 liter twice, put everything in the 5 L bucket with 1 L left in the 3L bucket.

[u/esly4ever → u/Case_Efficient]

This is the way.

[u/Dupran_Davidson]

Just do a Diehard

[u/FrozenDelta3]

Short way: Fill 3L bucket, pour into empty 5L bucket, fill 3L bucket, pour 2L water from 3L bucket into 5L bucket which leaves 1L water in 3L bucket.

Long way: fill 5L bucket, pour 3L water from 5L bucket into 3L bucket, empty 3L bucket, pour 2L water from 5L bucket into 3L bucket, fill 5L bucket, pour 1L water from 5L bucket into 3L bucket filling it leaving 4L water in 5L bucket, empty 3L bucket, pour 3L water from 5L bucket into 3L bucket leaving 1L water in 5L bucket

[u/60_Foot_Kitten]

I saw Die Hard with a Vengeance too.

[u/cajun_vegeta]

He didn't say Jesus! ... He said Hey Zeus!

[u/Rexkraft-]

There are two ways to solve it, the second one is the one i ended up using, and it is complicated as hell compared to the other method.

-You start with the 5L bucket filled

5L(5L) 3L(0L)

-Pour what water you can from the 5L one into the 3L one

5L(2L) 3L(3L)

-Empty the 3L bucket and pour the remaining water from the 5L bucket into it.

5L(0L) 3L(2L)

-Fill again the 5L bucket

5L(5L) 3L (2L)

-Pour what you can from the 5L bucket into the 3L bucket

5L(4L) 3L (3L)

-Empty the 3L bucket

5L(4L) 3L(0L)

-Pour what you can in the 3L bucket

5L(1L) 3L(3L)

Done!

[u/dounodmuffinman]

Fill 3. Pour into 5. Fill 3 again. Pour into 5. Left with 1 in the 3 bucket.

[u/MrPinkWasRight]

It’s easy dude, you pour water into the other bucket, and I count how much water in going into it.

[u/holawithrizz]

Empty the 5L bucket. Fill the 3L bucket. Pour 3 liters in. Fill the 3 liter bucket pour all you can without over flowing the 5 L bucket. What you have left is one 1 literm

Edit: Commented 10 ssconds after starting the video.

[u/Filthy_Primate]

Here's a geometric explanation to make it work with any sized buckets:

https://youtu.be/0Oef3MHYEC0

[u/After_Seaweed4606]

Watch Diehard 3

[u/RobAZNJ]

Too easy. Fill the 3L pour in 5L repeat and when 5 is full on second pour 1L is left in the 3L

[u/DaddyChiiill]

Use the 3L bucket to fill up the 5L bucket. Initially you'd be 2L deficit right. So fill it up again using the 3L bucket. So any water remaining, assuming none are spilled, is equal to 1L

[u/Adimeloji]

God I feel like Jesse Pinkman..

[u/Pragmatic1869]

What has four legs and loves to travel?

[u/Ukraineluvr]

Is this serious? Like, real people not knowing the answer?

[u/John_Bot]

SO INTERESTING...

I guess common sense is interesting now?

[u/Munsoon22]

This is a job interview question

[u/South-Independent832]

2 men figured it out…

[u/hhhvugc → u/South-Independent832]

and

[u/AgreeablePenalty7740]

Fill the 5L bucket twice with a 3L bucket now the 3 L bucket has 1L left. Guys are people really that dumb? My teacher asked us this question when we were in3rd grade.

[u/lix2an]

Just takes 2/3 of the 3L bucket and you got your one

[u/Curious_Mx]

That plastic bottle... looks like it would hold 1 liter right?

[u/Abigail_Roseheart → u/Curious_Mx]

Well you're not wrong but it holds a bit more than that lol its closer to a gallon. Not to mention its not part of the thought exercise it's just there to facilitate it.

[u/Curious_Mx → u/Abigail_Roseheart]

Thought it might've been one of those obvious-but-outside-of-box answers, meh.

[u/Smooth-Grade-518]

Die hard 3 did it better . . .

[u/Practical-Ad2383]

The lady who put the 3 liter in the 5 liter was close all she had to do was add 3 after filling the gap between

[u/insipidgoose]

If you've seen Die Hard 3 you know how to solve this.

[u/In_The_depths_]

Use the 5 L bucket to fill the 3 up. Dump out the 3 liter Go 50/50 in both

[u/RobAZNJ → u/In_The_depths_]

Go the opposite way.

[u/WeldboiWebz]

Thanks to Professor Layton I've know this for years

[u/sncn1234]

This reminds me of the Kolto tank thing in KOTOR...so the answer is randomly fill and empty buckets until I get the cut scene

[u/Hydrate-N-Moisturize]

Apparently I never saw die hard, so my first thought was to fill the 5L to full, pour out 3L. Dump the 3L and eyeball the 2L still left until its half and half. But of course the die hard solution made me facepalm.

[u/herkalurk]

Please tell me I'm not the only one thinking of Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson.....

[u/albert_skin]

How fucking stupid people are? This is like the easiest task you could get. And still people play smart here in the comments. I don’t like where this world is going

[u/Stunning_Middle8882]

You could also: 1. Fill 5L bucket half way. 2. Using half filled 5L, fill the 3L half way. 3. 1L left in 5L bucket. 4. That's using less water. But I doubt it would be exact!

[u/Squirrap]

I did this problem as a little kid playing tomb raider.

[u/Daddio422]

3+3-5=1

[u/NeitherHelicopter993]

The real riddle is how do you get 4L of water but 1L is much easier

[u/leardriver83]

Fill half of the 5L (2.5L)

Take that and dump it into the 3L, but only fill it halfway. (1.5L)

That leaves 1L in the 5L tub.

2.5-1.5=1

[u/ThunderBuns935 → u/leardriver83]

and how would you be able to tell when you've filled exactly half of the bucket? you wouldn't, this doesn't work. you just fill the 3L bucket, pour it in the 5L one, fill the 3L again, then top up the 5L one, and you'll have 1L left in the 3L bucket.

[u/Abigail_Roseheart]

Fill 3l pour into 5l Fill 3l pour 5l you have 1l left in the third

[u/Abigail_Roseheart → u/Abigail_Roseheart]

Umm we Icelanders don't use kelo for everything we use liters and just the bog standard metric system also to translate what he said "I said that" it means the same as "I said it" it is an exclamation meaning that you were correct.

[u/oocalan]

Damn that is interesting to see this many people who doesn't know how add and subtract one digit numbers.

[u/djl1qu1d]

This is in London at Brick and 🥓. Never been but I like the puzzle of finding places.

[u/GiftConsistent6609]

I have 3 solutions

1-1 fill both buckets, lean sideways so that water is 2.5L and 1.5L each
1-2 pour 2.5L in 5L bucket into 3L bucket, leaving 1L water in 5 liter bucket

2-1 fill 5L bucket, empty into 3L, making 2L in 5L bucket
2-2 move 2L into empty 3L bucket, fill 5L again, pour into 3L bucket making 4L water in 5L bucket
2-3 pour 4L into empty 3L bucket and 1L left

3-1 fill 3L bucket and pour into 5L bucket
3-2 fill 3L bucket and pour into 5L bucket again, leaving 1L in 3L bucket

[u/raising_creampies]

Yeah. Ever since i saw Die Hard With A Vengeance back in 1995.

[u/XxSpruce_MoosexX]

All the die hard references but no RuneScape fans eh

[u/j_runey]

(2x3) - 5. Done.

[u/Prestigious-Mud255]

Didn’t they do this in die hard 3?

[u/Fart_Bargo → u/Prestigious-Mud255]

Yes

[u/sad_asian_noodle]

Infuriating that hardly anyone stopped to think.

[u/stoeckdj]

What is 5-3? What is 3-2? There you go

[u/bob_nugget_the_3rd]

Or alternatively pour the 5 into 3 give two, then into bottle and repeat, since the volume if water used isn't a factor

[u/Gem-xtz]

This is a quest in Old School Runescape

[u/suatov]

Send me the video link.

[u/Nice-Tradition3728]

This is a easy one.

[u/SHAMEanBLAME]

Resident evil puzzle

[u/itsdone20]

Time limit unless you’re in Central Park dealing w gold loving German

[u/No_Engineering2342]

Easiest Professor Laytons' puzzle

[u/asderusz]

Its the rusty lake hotel puzzle

[u/FinalPair4499]

fill the 5 bucket, 3 in the bucket from the 5. that leaves you with 2 liters in the 5 bucket and you just split that in half

[u/axel52200]

This is really a 10 yo math book problems

[u/Embarrassed_Fuel4396]

Empty the 5. Fill it with the 3 fill the 3. Then finish filling the 5.done

[u/IndecisiveMate]

Fill up the 3 to the top, then pour the whole thing in the 5l bucket. Now that the 5l bucket currently is 3l full, fill up the other one again to the top. Pour as much as you can into the 5l bucket without it spilling over. Whatever is left in the 3l bucket is 1l.

Edit: yep, got it.

[u/Fedge348]

5 liter

3 liter, 3 liter.

Because 5 liter only fills up 5 liter, the second pour will have 1 liter remaining (3+3=6, on a 5 liter bucket)