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  2. Puzzle jug - Wikipedia

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    Puzzle jugs of varying quality were popular in homes and taverns. An inscription typically challenges the drinker to consume the contents without spilling them, which, because the neck of the jug is perforated, is impossible to do conventionally. The solution to the puzzle is that the jug has a hidden tube, one end of which is the spout.

  3. Mug - Wikipedia

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    A puzzle mug is a mug which has some trick preventing normal operation. One example is a mug with multiple holes in the rim, making it impossible to drink from it in the normal way. Although it is tempting to grasp the body of the mug covering the visible holes and drink the liquid in the usual manner, this would pour the liquid through hidden ...

  4. Water pouring puzzle - Wikipedia

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    Water pouring puzzles (also called water jug problems, decanting problems, [1] [2] measuring puzzles, or Die Hard with a Vengeance puzzles) are a class of puzzle involving a finite collection of water jugs of known integer capacities (in terms of a liquid measure such as liters or gallons). Initially each jug contains a known integer volume of ...

  5. Three utilities problem - Wikipedia

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    These embeddings solve versions of the puzzle in which the houses and companies are drawn on a coffee mug or other such surface instead of a flat plane. [20] There is even enough additional freedom on the torus to solve a version of the puzzle with four houses and four utilities.

  6. Pythagorean cup - Wikipedia

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    Cross section of a ceramic Pythagorean cup. A Pythagorean cup (also known as a Pythagoras cup, Greedy Cup, Cup of Justice or Tantalus cup) is a practical joke device in a form of a drinking cup, credited to Pythagoras of Samos.

  7. Category:Puzzles - Wikipedia

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    The term "puzzle" typically refers to problems in recreational mathematics, geometry, and language — often as a means for education, cognitive skills enhancement in symbolic reasoning or logic. See also Category:Problem solving , for problems which are non-recreational or otherwise outside of the "puzzle" definition.

  8. Mug (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Mug book, a collection of photographs of criminals, typically mugshots Mug shot , a photographic portrait of a person from the waist up, typically taken after a person is arrested Other uses

  9. Puzzle box - Wikipedia

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    A puzzle box (also called a secret box or trick box) is a box that can be opened only by solving a puzzle. Some require only a simple move and others a series of discoveries. Modern puzzle boxes developed from furniture and jewelry boxes with secret compartments and hidden openings, known since the Renaissance.

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