12 Marbles Puzzle

In general if you have n weights at your disposal you can solve the puzzle up to 3 n marbles included.

12 marbles puzzle. Answer to puzzle 1. The scales are of the old balance variety. You have 12 marbles. It could be either heavier or lighter than the remaining balls.

That is a small dish hangs from each end of a rod that is balanced in the middle. Today s puzzle solve today s puzzle and check for the answer the next day 12 marbles written on 3 23 am by vja students you have twelve marbles. Here is an interesting riddle involving 12 marbles and a balance scale. Galison 500 piece rainbow marbles jigsaw puzzle for families and adults finished puzzle is a unique rainbow image photo art puzzle includes varying colors and sizes of marbles 1 ea 9780735351219 4 6 out of 5 stars 131.

For the first weighing let us put on the left pan coins 1 2 3 4 and on the right pan coins 5 6 7 8. Difficult puzzle about identifying the odd coin out or 12 in three goes on an old fashioned balance. You have 12 identical looking balls and one of them is faulty. Eleven of the marbles are of equal weight but one is heavier or lighter.

Mensa level brain teaser on mind bluff. There are two possibilities. So that the following plan can be followed let us number the coins from 1 to 12. One of the 12 marbles is irregular but you don t know whether it s heavier or lighte.

Either they balance or they don t. Galison 500 piece rainbow marbles jigsaw puzzle for families and adults finished puzzle is a unique rainbow image photo art puzzle includes varying colors and sizes of marbles 1 ea 9780735351219 4 6 out of 5 stars 136. If they balance then the different coin is in the group 9 10 11 12. 12 coins old fashioned balance.

So another perfectly valid solution to the 12 marbles puzzle might even be. You have a balancing scale you can use to find this marble and figure out if it weighs more or less than the others. 2v2 8 xy 1v1 0 z 3v3 2 xy 1v1 1 z 1v1 0 which requires only two weights in one third of the cases. You are given a set of scales and 12 marbles.