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How Many Glasses is a puzzle in Professor Layton and the Curious Village.
Puzzle
- US Version
On the top row of the picture shown below, you have three cups of juice followed by three empty cups. Your objective is to change things around so that the cups are arranged as shown in the bottom row of the picture.
Assuming you can only move one cup at a time and that all rearrangement has to be done by hand, how many cups will you have to pick up?
- UK Version
On the top row of the picture shown below, you have three glasses of juice followed by three empty glasses. Your objective is to change things around so that the glasses are arranged as shown in the bottom row of the picture.
Assuming you can only move one glass at a time, that the glass can't be put down again anywhere other than on the shelf, and that all rearranging has to be done by hand, how many glasses will you have to pick up?
Hints
Solution
Incorrect
Nope!
Think about how many cups you really need to move to finish your task.
Correct
That's right!
- US Version
Pour the contents of the second cup into the fourth cup and then return it to its original position as shown above. This way, the task set before you can be completed in one move.
- UK Version
Pour the contents of the second glass into the fourth glass and then return it to its original position as shown above. This way, the puzzle can be completed in one move.
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