Here is my puzzle:
How can you fit ten horses in nine boxes?
Here are the boxes:
Rules:
- All boxes must be filled
- No additional boxes can be created
Good luck :)
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Sign up to join this communityHere is my puzzle:
How can you fit ten horses in nine boxes?
Here are the boxes:
Rules:
Good luck :)
Put 8 male horses to first 8 box and put a pregnant female horse to last room.
Here is my answer:
You can place the 9 letters of "ten horses" in the boxes: T E N H O R S E S
The expected answer:
|1 | 2 |3 | 4 | 5 |6 | 7 |8 | 9 |
[T][E][N][H][O][R][S][E][S]
Now the real challenge is to make up new valid answers..
Alternate answers:
Remove the walls between the boxes to and add them to the end to end up with just 1 longer box, then insert all the horses into the 1 box. (Can now store up to 10-13 horses!)
Assuming they are toy horses, and grind them up. You can now fit the maximum possible horses into the boxes. (Much greater than 10)
My idea:
If you order the boxes like this:
+---+---+---+---+ | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | +---+---+---+---+ | 5 | | 6 | +---+---+---+---+ | 7 | 8 | 9 |//// +---+---+---+////
you get a spot in the middle that is no box but yet big enough for the tenth horse, and you can get to it by moving box 6 to the shaded zone.
You can double up one of the boxes because these 9 boxes make up the bigger box (box of boxes). You didn't say only 1 horse per box.