{"id":31135,"date":"2026-07-17T11:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31135"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:58:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:58:56","slug":"the-water-puzzle-everyone-gets-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31135","title":{"rendered":"The Water Puzzle Everyone Gets Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"19\" data-end=\"169\">Four glasses look completely full\u2014but only one actually contains the most water. Thousands of people answer this puzzle confidently\u2026 and get it wrong.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"320\">The secret is <strong data-start=\"185\" data-end=\"207\">water displacement<\/strong>. The larger the object inside the glass, the more space it takes up and the less water the glass actually holds.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"322\" data-end=\"527\">Since the <strong data-start=\"332\" data-end=\"345\">paperclip<\/strong> in <strong data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"360\">Glass A<\/strong> is the smallest object, it displaces the least water. That means <strong data-start=\"426\" data-end=\"461\">Glass A contains the most water<\/strong>, while the baseball, eraser, and watch leave less room for water.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"649\">It&#8217;s a simple reminder that things aren&#8217;t always what they seem\u2014and sometimes the smallest detail changes everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four glasses look completely full\u2014but only one actually contains the most water. Thousands of people answer this puzzle confidently\u2026 and get it wrong. The secret is water displacement. The larger the object inside the glass, the more space it takes up and the less water the glass actually holds. Since the paperclip in Glass A&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=31135\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Water Puzzle Everyone Gets Wrong&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31137,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31135\/revisions\/31137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}