A poor farmer went to the market to sell some peas and lentils.

However, as he had only one sack and didn't want to mix peas and lentils, he poured in the peas first, tied the sack in the middle, and then filled the top portion of the sack with the lentils.

At the market a rich innkeeper happened by with his own sack. He wanted to buy the peas, but he did not want the lentils.

Pouring the seed anywhere else but the sacks is considered soiling. Trading sacks is not allowed. The farmer can’t cut a hole in his sack, nor can the innkeeper.

How would you transfer the peas to the innkeeper’s sack, which he wants to keep, without soiling the produce?

 

I'll post the correct answer in a couple of days......

 
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8 Comments on Brain Teaser #2.....

JAN
31
2010
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Ralph...

OK, I'm really thinking about this. I hope that I don't see the answer before I figure it out!
9:11am • #1
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They're at the market where there are many people with sacks.  They borrowed a sack to hold the lentils while the peas were transferred.
10:22am • #2
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My head hurts this morning.  I've thought about the problem for a few moments without formulating a solution, and so I'll wait for the "reveal" which I'm sure will "surprise and amaze" us all.
10:36am • #3
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pour in lentils to innkeepers sack tie sack half way

pour in peas into innkeepers sack and tie it

cut hole in bottom of inkeepers sack (If that is allowed as it states that you can't cut a whole in the farmers sack but said nothing about the inkeepers sack)

 
10:44am • #4
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No hole cutting is allowed!
10:56am • #5
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I think I like the idea of using other sacks -- good thinking outside the box. (sack  ;-)
6:55pm • #6
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2010
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How do you keep a real estate professional in suspense?
2:27pm • #7
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12
2010
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Answer to Brain Teaser #2:

Pour the lentils into the innkeeper’s sack, bind it and turn inside out. Pour in the peas. Then unbind the sack and pour the lentils back to your sack.
10:05am • #8

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