Engineering News
November 17, 2003, Vol. 74, No. 13F

Brainteaser

Genius Corner: Gain fame by playing our brain game

How Many Lumps?

This week’s brainteaser is sweet but not so simple. The first person to e-mail the right answer will have his or her name printed in the next issue of Engineering News along with the answer.
Twice a semester, one of the bi-weekly winners will be picked at random to win two movie tickets, courtesy of Berkeley Engineering Alumni Relations.

Can you place 10 lumps of sugar in three empty cups so that there is an odd number of lumps in each cup? E-mail your answer to editnews@coe.berkeley.edu with “brainteaser” in the subject line.


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