mscroggs.co.uk
mscroggs.co.uk

subscribe

Puzzles

Eight peas

There are eight cups, with one pea in each cup. You are allowed to move a pea by picking up the pea in a pot with only one pea and jumping it to the left or the right over two peas into a pot with only one pea in it. For example, the following moves are allowed:
Starting with your eight cups, can you make four moves?

Show answer & extension

If you enjoyed this puzzle, check out Sunday Afternoon Maths XIV,
puzzles about , or a random puzzle.

Archive

Show me a random puzzle
 Most recent collections 

Advent calendar 2024

Advent calendar 2023

Advent calendar 2022

Advent calendar 2021


List of all puzzles

Tags

surds arrows graphs sum to infinity cube numbers dates games books irreducible numbers star numbers chalkdust crossnumber tangents scales dodecagons money circles sets speed integration angles consecutive numbers crosswords digital products calculus symmetry people maths percentages cards factors polynomials hexagons neighbours algebra combinatorics fractions powers binary 2d shapes triangle numbers geometry sport spheres numbers grids geometric mean cubics grids geometric means shape tiling multiplication division squares dice bases prime numbers quadrilaterals median lines square numbers floors colouring axes means determinants christmas cryptic clues doubling time odd numbers coins trigonometry complex numbers parabolas numbers menace multiples cryptic crossnumbers albgebra functions folding tube maps polygons ave volume rectangles chess perfect numbers number gerrymandering wordplay pascal's triangle logic proportion products perimeter the only crossnumber palindromes tournaments indices clocks pentagons 3d shapes even numbers coordinates decahedra digital clocks addition routes crossnumbers rugby ellipses dominos square roots range averages expansions unit fractions triangles advent sums area integers chocolate balancing partitions matrices quadratics elections probabilty sequences regular shapes shapes consecutive integers mean digits probability planes square grids taxicab geometry differentiation remainders medians factorials

Archive

Show me a random puzzle
▼ show ▼
© Matthew Scroggs 2012–2025