Play it · Ages 8–9

The Two Jugs

No markings. Get it exact. Three challenges — each one changes what you have to do, not just how many of it there are. Nothing is timed and nothing is scored.

0 of 3 solved

Get exactly 4 cups using a 5-cup jug and a 3-cup jug.

You are allowed to pour water away. Most people never try it.

Four cups
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Big jug · holds 5
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Small jug · holds 3
Ten minutes of stuck counts as the work.

Now do it away from the screen

The board is the warm-up. The year page has the same problem on paper, the hint ladder, the answer, the five-day week and three questions nobody can mark — which is where the twenty-five minutes actually go.

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