Where is the arsenic in the Six Jars Puzzle?

  • Thread starter Thread starter K Sengupta
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Puzzle
AI Thread Summary
The puzzle involves six jars labeled with coffee, arsenic, sugar, snuff, tea, and salt, each containing a different ingredient than indicated. Key clues include that salt is under the jar with snuff and sugar is directly to the right of coffee. Based on these conditions, the arrangement can be deduced, leading to the conclusion that arsenic is located in the jar labeled as tea. The logical reasoning process involves eliminating possibilities based on the provided clues to arrive at the correct placement of each substance.
K Sengupta
Messages
113
Reaction score
0
Six jars are placed (left to right: coffee, arsenic, and sugar on the top shelf; snuff, tea, and salt on the bottom shelf) and, thereafter filled up with these ingredients, making sure each jar contains something other than what the label says.

It is known that:

(i) The salt is located under the jar containing snuff, and:

(ii) The sugar is located directly to the right of the jar containing coffee.

Where is the arsenic?
 
Physics news on Phys.org
Thx for a good puzzle..Dave
 
Top shelf...Snuff/Tea/Arsenic...Bottom shelf...Salt/Coffee/Sugar
 
Just ONCE, I wanted to see a post titled Status Update that was not a blatant, annoying spam post by a new member. So here it is. Today was a good day here in Northern Wisconsin. Fall colors are here, no mosquitos, no deer flies, and mild temperature, so my morning run was unusually nice. Only two meetings today, and both went well. The deer that was road killed just down the road two weeks ago is now fully decomposed, so no more smell. Somebody has a spike buck skull for their...
Thread 'RIP George F. Smoot III (1945-2025)'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smoot https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/george-smoot-iii https://apc.u-paris.fr/fr/memory-george-fitzgerald-smoot-iii https://elements.lbl.gov/news/honoring-the-legacy-of-george-smoot/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2006/smoot/facts/ https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200611/nobel.cfm https://inspirehep.net/authors/988263 Structure in the COBE Differential Microwave Radiometer First-Year Maps (Astrophysical Journal...
Back
Top