It’s the Friday Puzzle!

First a quick bit of news – tomorrow I am interviewing comedian and actor Alan Davies as part of ‘BBC at the Edinburgh Festival’.  Tickets are available from 11am tomorrow at their venue.

Now, the puzzle.

You have nine tennis balls and four shopping bags.  Your challenge is to put the balls in the bags in such a way that there is an odd number of balls in each bag.  That is, each bag must contain 1, 3, 5, 7 or 9 balls.  Can you do it?

As ever, please do NOT post your answers, but do say if you think you have solved the puzzle and how long it took. Solution on Monday.

I have produced an ebook containing 101 of the previous Friday Puzzles! It is called PUZZLED and is available for the Kindle (UK here and USA here) and on the iBookstore (UK here in the USA here). You can try 101 of the puzzles for free here.