Rezdonox
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| 23 Aug 2012 08:52 PM |
Finally made it to 100 Off Topic Brain Teasers. Wanted to make #100 HARD, so I'm bringing back the hardest one I've ever done. Here goes.
A man in a restaurant asked a waitress for a juice glass, a dinner plate, water, a match, and a lemon wedge. The man poured enough water onto the plate to cover it.
"If you can get the water on the plate into this glass without touching or moving this plate, I will give you $100," the man said.
"You can use the match and lemon to do this."
A few minutes later, the waitress walked away with $100 in his pocket. How did the waitress get the water into the glass? |
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| 23 Aug 2012 08:53 PM |
First, the waiter stuck the match into the lemon wedge, so that it would stand straight. Then he lit the match, and put it in the middle of the plate with the lemon. Then, he placed the glass upside-down over the match. As the flame used up the oxygen in the glass, it created a small vacuum, which sucked in the water through the space between the glass and the plate. Thus, the waiter got the water into the glass without touching or moving the plate. You can try this experiment at home with appropriate supervision.
~"Half the population's just waitin to see me fail, yeah right, You're better off trying to freeze hell"~ |
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| 23 Aug 2012 08:54 PM |
Cut a hole into the lemon, then use the match to evaporate the water into the hole, then move the lemon over the glass and get the water out?
Uhh...I really don't know. I'm stumped. |
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brison
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| 23 Aug 2012 08:54 PM |
lol lilliam
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NoobEra3
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spurta
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| 23 Aug 2012 08:56 PM |
| she stuck the match into the lemon so it would stand and lit it, creating a small vacuum, then she put the glass upside down on top of the lemon to suck up all the water. |
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| 23 Aug 2012 08:57 PM |
She didn't, she got the $1000 from tips.
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Wander221
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| 23 Aug 2012 08:57 PM |
| A waitress is female. A waiter is male. |
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Kyxer
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| 23 Aug 2012 08:59 PM |
| she lit the water on fire and got the evaporated water then put the lemon in the cup |
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