One of the marbles was supposed to be black and one was supposed to be blue.
Three jars of marbles riddle.
You have three jars that are all mislabeled.
You ll then close your eyes he ll hand you the jar you picked and you ll pick a random marble from that jar.
One jar contains apple another contains oranges and the third jar contains a mixture of both apple and oranges.
A king decided to let a prisoner try to escape the prison with his life.
One contains apples another has grapes and the third has a mix of both.
However all three boxes are mislabeled.
The puzzle goes like this.
This problem is also called jelly beans problem.
Three closed boxes have either white marbles black marbles or both and they are labeled white black and both.
The jars are labeled red black and mixed but all of the labels are.
He proposes a game.
Let p blue probability of picking a blue marble.
If it does not tip to a side if it balances we know the unused group of 3 contains the heavy marble.
Thus we end up with 75 chance of picking a blue marble.
But you could able to see only one fruit and you can t find weather the opened jar has one or two fruit.
Now you are allowed to open any one jar and you can able to see one fruit.
Red and blue marbles.
You have 3 jars that are all mislabeled.
Your friend shows you two jars one with 100 red marbles in it the other with 100 blue marbles in it.
Those who like to challenge their brains can read this riddle and leave their answers in the comment section.
If the prisoner could pick the blue marble he would escape the prison with his life.
You love candy and you are given 3 opaque jars which contain candies that are either blue or pink.
To do this put 3 marbles in each side 3 left 3 right 3 unused if the scale tips to a side we know that group of 3 has the heavy marble.
You are allowed to pick as many fruits as you want from each jar to fix the labels on the jars.
We first put marbles in groups of 3.
This is the most commonly asked interview puzzle.
One contains red marbles one contains black and one contains a mixture of both but we don t know which is which.
Jar 1 contains 1 blue marble and jar 2 contains 99 blue marbles and 100 red marbles.
You may reach into one of the boxes and pull out only one marble.
You have two jars of red and blue marbles labelled as rm and bm.
The jar you are open may contain one fruit or two fruit.
We want to see which group contains the heavy marble.
He ll put the two jars behind his back and tell you to pick one of them at random.
P blue p jar 1 p blue in jar 1 p jar 2 p blue in jar 2 p blue 0 5 1 0 5 99 199 p blue 0 748.
