<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">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">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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