buckets of water

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by Wacky

Sorry, you left out two other options:

C) Pour 5 gallons from bucket 2 onto the floor
D) Pour 6 gallons from bucket 3 onto the floor

(But they don't lead to any interesting possibilities.)

And pouring 5 gallons from #2 into #1, thereby wasting 2 gallons on the floor.
Pouring 6 gallons from #3 into #1, thereby wasting 3 gallons on the floor.