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Eggalicious (Posted on 2002-07-05)

You have to boil a single egg for exactly nine minutes.

All you have are two hourglasses, able to measure (in sand) seven and four minutes, respectively.

How quickly, using only these two hourglasses, can you boil an egg?

See The Solution Submitted by qball

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re(3): Solution:

| Comment 13 of 20 |

(In reply to re(2): Solution: by levik)

A number of replies have mentioned "my" solution, below. Although I did work it out independently, Charadenine posted it first. It's just that in the rush to post it, C9's solution is a little harder to follow.

Posted by TomM on 2002-07-09 08:34:51

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