The Three Jugs Problem

[steffee]

You have three jugs. They hold:

Jug 1: 8 litres
Jug 2: 5 litres
Jug 3: 3 litres

You start with Jug 1 full to the brim, so 8 litres, and the aim is to get 4 litres in Jug 2 with the remaining 4 litres left in Jug 1.

You can't pour water down the drain, or fill up with a tap or anything like that.

So how do you do it?

 

[blueboatdriver]

My brain hurts

 

[Kenny Shovel]

You have three jugs. They hold:

Jug 1: 8 litres
Jug 2: 5 litres
Jug 3: 3 litres

You start with Jug 1 full to the brim, so 8 litres, and the aim is to get 4 litres in Jug 2 with the remaining 4 litres left in Jug 1.

You can't pour water down the drain, or fill up with a tap or anything like that.

So how do you do it?

I can't be bothered to write it all out.

a b c
8 5 3

8 0 0
5 0 3
5 3 0
2 3 3
2 5 1
7 0 1
7 1 0
4 1 3
4 4 0

but that's how...

 

[blueboatdriver]

Clear as mud. Though I must say I'm not overly worried how you do it

 

[Libre]

If you had 3 jugs, the only way to solve that problem would be surgery.

 

[steffee]

lol Libra...

And well done, KS, took me ages to solve that!

 

[Ell]

Isn't this a variation of the puzzle in one of the Die Hard movies (the one with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson)?