<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Thanks, Adrian. I will be a bit more careful next time. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 6:21 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">If you reword it very very strictly to exclude all the alternative answers, maybe.<div><br></div><div>"You were looking for one particular answer. You got several valid answers." is the biggest problem you encountered. Just because you're only thinking of one answer doesn't mean the other answers aren't correct too - and the standard is, any correct answer should be acceptable.</div><div><br></div><div>As mentioned, start with using "partially full" instead of "half full", and maybe use "container, open only at the top" instead of "glass". Think through each one of the other answers you were given, to see how you can reword to specify in advance that that is not the solution either.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 1:48 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">OK, thanks. I am fairly new at making up puzzles and need all the feedback I can get. Is there any way to salvage this one by rewording it? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:55 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 6:12 AM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 8:50 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Now will somebody tell me what made the puzzle so hard? Aside from a minor wording that Will caught, which I have to think didn't confuse anyone, how could the puzzle be presented better?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You were looking for one particular answer. You got several valid answers.</div><div><br></div><div>The situation you envisioned is pretty contrived: most faucets are easily adjustable to control the rate of flow.</div><div><br></div><div>You said "half full" when you really meant "partially full". Half, in this case, is overly specific and misleading.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This, pretty much. Also, water being poured in with enough force that fully half the glass is air suggests a more secure & stable glass than typical. I'd be worried about the glass toppling and breaking, if it was a typical drinking glass.</div></div></div>
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