Can You Crack One OfCar Talk‘s ‘Toughest Puzzlers’?

For years , the wireless show Car public lecture challenged its auditor with a hebdomadary “ Puzzler . ” consort to the show ’s archive , this is one of the toughest Puzzlers to ever vent . Can you solve it ?

Today ’s post grade the sixteenth installment in io9 ’s Sunday Puzzle series . That means we ’ve been at this for about four months now . Not long , in the grand scheme of things . Not that many puzzles , either , for that affair . By comparison , Car Talk – the spectacular , Peabody Award - come through radio show hosted by brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi ( aka “ Click and Clack ” ) – was produced from 1977 to October 2012 . For much of that fourth dimension , Car Talk was home to a hebdomadary segment called “ The mystifier , ” in which Click and Clack would take exception listeners with a brain-teaser .

Needless to say , the Tappet comrade posed alot of puzzles over the years . The show ’s Puzzler archives , which you may get at here , date all the way back to 1996 ; but the most challenging brain teasers – the ones that , in Tom and Ray ’s words , “ are so intricate , so convoluted and so obfuscate that they ’re trusted to start the smoke pour of your braincase ” – have their very own segment , called“The Hard Stuff : automobile talking ’s Toughest Puzzlers . ”This calendar week ’s puzzle – originally titled “ Evil King Berman and the Three Boxes ” – was take from this exalted lineup . I found puzzle out it to be particularly satisfying , and I go for you do , too .

Sunday Puzzle #16: Three Boxes, Two Lies

The Fair Maiden Rowena wishes to we d. And her sire , the Evil King Berman , has devise a way to labor off suitors . He has a minuscule quiz for them , and here it is . It ’s very simple :

Three box pose on a board . The first is made of atomic number 79 , the 2d is made of ash grey , and the third is made of lead . Inside one of these boxes is a picture of the honest Rowena . It is the job of the White Knight to figure out – without opening them – which one has her picture .

Now , to attend to him in this endeavor there is an inscription on each of the box . The gold box say , “ Rowena ’s movie is in this loge . ” The silver box says , “ The picture is not in this loge . ” The tip loge say , “ The picture is not in the atomic number 79 boxwood . ” Only one of the statements is true . Which box seat holds the word picture ?

We ’ll be back next week with the solutions – and a new puzzle ! catch a not bad brainteaser , original or otherwise , that you ’d like to see featured?E - mail me with your recommendations.(Be certain to admit “ Sunday Puzzle ” in the subject line . )

Art by Tara Jacoby

UPDATE: THE SOLUTION TO PUZZLE #16HAS BEEN POSTED

Solution To Sunday Puzzle #15: Pouring/Partitioning Water

Last hebdomad , I dispute you toa trio of H2O dispersion teaser . ( Coincidentally , one of the three puzzles also appears in Car Talk ’s aggregation of dastardly teaser ! A couple of you mention this in your emails to me last hebdomad – which , incidentally , is how I found this week ’s Sunday Puzzle . If you work out this AND last week ’s puzzles , you will have solved TWO of Car Talk ’s most hard brain teasers , so hats off to you . ) The central challenge of each puzzle was straightforward : Precisely measure out some quantity of piddle using two two glasses of different bulk and an unlimited provision of H2O.

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The solutions came intemperate and firm – and in a variety of form ! My favored response was submitted by Saucemaster , who opted to draw his explanations :

puzzler 1 : Measure six ounce of water supply using four- and nine - ounce glasses .

teaser 2 : Measure six ounces of water supply using seven- and eleven - ounce glasses .

Puzzle 3 : Measure four ounces of water using three- and five - apothecaries' ounce glasses :

As some of you manoeuver out , discarding the excess water in the last step is n’t technically necessary . Also , the second teaser can be figure out in importantly fewer stair than Saucemaster uses , by take the seven oz. chalk first . Here are save solutions to the three puzzles . The first two were provided byFacebones , the third bypursnikkitty :

1 ) 4 oz and 9 oz make 6 oz

meet the 9 oz glass wholly . make full the 4 oz glass completely with urine from the 9 oz glass . ( 5 oz remain ) . Dump the 4 oz out . repetition . ( 1 oz leave in the big trash . ) Pour the 1 oz will into the 4 oz glass . replenish the 9 oz glass and pour into the 4 oz glass till full . This takes 3 oz and leaves 6 oz in the vainglorious glass .

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2 ) 7 oz and 11 oz make 6 oz

Fill the 7 oz glass and pour it into the 11 oz glass . repetition . This leaves 3 oz in the 7 oz glass . Dump out the 11 oz looking glass and pour in the 3 oz . fill again the 7 oz glass and pour it into the 11 oz glass . Now you have 10 oz in the 11 oz glass . Refill the 7 oz glass and rain cats and dogs into the 11 oz glass till full . This take on 1 oz , leaving 6 oz in the 7 oz Methedrine .

3 ) [ 3 oz and 5 oz make 4 oz ]

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Fill the 5 oz and teem into the 3 . Empty the 3 oz . pour out the remaining 2 oz into the 3 oz . fulfil the 5 oz and teem 1 oz into the 3 , giving you 4 oz left in the 5 oz .

Many of you also mentioned that the puzzler called to minda scene from Die Hard 3 , in which John McClain ( Bruce Willis ) and Zeus ( Samuel L. Jackson ) are challenge by Peter Krieg ( Jeremy Irons ) to precisely measure out four gallons using five and three gallon jugful . In fact , the third puzzle was plagiarise forthwith from the movie – except , in Die heavily , McClain and Zeus are working in gallons , not ounces .