Question

So I have a riddle for you. There are two islands connected by a bridge capable of holding only one hundred pounds. On one island, there is a gatekeeper who only lets you cross the bridge one time, and on the other island, there is a princess and an apple tree. The princess weighs ninety-nine pounds, and each apple weighs half a pound. But she needs to get three apples across. How does she do this without collapsing the bridge?

Answer 1

Answer:

The princess can perform a juggling. In this process, the three apples take turns as they are thrown up in the air and received back from where they are being thrown. In a perfect juggling situation where three balls (apples in this case are involved), there is no point in time where the three balls are all in the hands of the player. Doing this, the princess should make sure that at every point in time when crossing the bridge, not more than two of the apples are in her hands and the third apple in the air. Though a risky game it poses itself as one of the possible ways out of this dilemma.

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