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The 3 cans (Posted on 2003-01-18) Difficulty: 2 of 5
There are 3 cans containing different foods. Nuts in one can. Sliced Peaches in juices in another and the third can contains sliced oranges in juices. Someone has steamed off and switched the labels of all the cans so every can will have a label that is not the actual food inside it. Can you figure out which cans contain which foods without opening any?

  Submitted by Alan    
Rating: 2.8125 (16 votes)
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Well first you have to shake each can. The one that has the rattle is the can of nuts. The food for whatever label that is on the can of nuts must therefore be in the can that does not have the nuts label.(If it was in the can with the nuts label that would mean that one can of food still has its original label)

Then the label of that can (the one that does not contain the nuts or the nuts label) must be the food in the can with the nuts label.

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  Subject Author Date
SolutionPuzzle SolutionK Sengupta2022-07-20 00:10:16
SolutionPuzzle SolutionK Sengupta2022-07-20 00:10:15
re(2): 3cans guessGoobers2004-08-31 15:47:11
SolutionsolutionJonathan2003-03-17 14:33:35
well...Corey2003-02-17 19:06:30
3 cana guessElizabeth Dugan2003-01-19 23:54:40
3 cansterry2003-01-19 20:04:07
another guessabc2003-01-19 12:52:40
Guess.....Gautam Joshi2003-01-18 22:30:13
re: 3cans guessnp_rt2003-01-18 18:48:44
re(2): My GuessE Woodford2003-01-18 12:41:33
3cans guessJohn Kessinger2003-01-18 12:39:53
re: My GuessHyperCube4D2003-01-18 09:50:30
Some ThoughtsMy Guessnp_rt2003-01-18 06:53:00
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