Since you know that the box is labeled incorrectly it must have all black marbles or all white marbles.
10 jars of marbles riddle.
He proposes a game.
Your friend has 100 red marbles 100 blue marbles and 2 jars.
The correct weight is 150 15 10.
10 jars marbles puzzle solution posted by admin at 23 19 on wednesday 19 september 2012 the trick in this puzzle is that you are allows to weigh just once and you have to figure out the jar which contains the defective marbles.
The king placed 2 marbles in a jar that was glued to a table.
The marbles all look alike.
The other jars have marbles weighing 1 0 grams.
Take out 1 pill from jar 1 2 pills from jar 2 3 pills from jar 3 4 pills from jar 4 and 5 pills from jar 5.
He fills the jars with the marbles put the two jars behind his back and tell you to pick one of them at random.
To find the contaminated jar follow this step wise approach.
If the prisoner could pick the blue marble he would escape the prison with his life.
You ll then close your eyes he ll hand you the jar you picked and you ll pick a random marble from that jar.
But one of the jars has contaminated pills.
One jar has marbles weighing 1 1 grams.
One of the marbles was supposed to be black and one was supposed to be blue.
A king decided to let a prisoner try to escape the prison with his life.
What is the minimum number of weighs on a scale to find out which jar has the heavy marbles.
The one labeled both.