It Will Take a High-IQ Puzzler to Work Out Which Glass Fills Up First in This Brainteaser

Brainteasers do more than just make the grey cells tick. They can help you rewire your brain altogether. Through logical reasoning, and a little bit of common sense, you can train your brain to think more critically and creatively.A good can challenge our cognitive abilities, encouraging us to look at problems from different angles, find patterns and come up with solutions that aren’t immediately obvious. Whether you like solving puzzles or riddles, or are into logic games, these intellectual stimulants can all help improve memory and problem-solving. A new brainteaser recently had people trying to work out which of a network of seven interconnected glasses fills up first, but the answer seemed to elude most. Shared by The Medical City’s Facebook page, the features seven cups of water under a running tap.The goal is to determine “Which glass gets full first” and it’d take a high-IQ puzzler to get it right.

If you like the added challenge of a time limit, feel free to set your stopwatch’s countdown timer to two minutes. Too easy? Make it one.Tip: Focus on the way glasses are connected to each other. That piece of detail is key to answering this brainteaser.Before we reveal the answer, let’s take a look at other puzzlers’ attempts.“Ideally it's [Glass] 3 will be the first to be full. But It really depends on how strong the pressure was, and the amount of water coming out from the faucet per second/ms,” read a comment.“Just common sense or logic: It's because this is water, the glass number 1 will remain on half content and never going up anymore to the upper tube or straw of glass number 1 connecting and passing to glass numbers 2, 4 5. As I said just because it's water it would only continue to overflow and wasted at glass number 3, which will get full first,” said another.It appears that most people got three. But is that the final answer? Let’s examine the problem further.Water enters Glass 1 first.Glass 2 has an opening but can only fill if water reaches it. However, the pipe leading to Glass 4 is blocked, ruling that one out.Glass 3 also has a pipe connected it t oGlass 1, and from Glass 3, water can flow down into Glass 7. Since there are no blockages along this route, Glass 7 should fill first.Which of these was your answer?