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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

Rating: 2.7857 (14 votes)

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Subject	Author	Date
Solution	K Sengupta	2007-05-28 13:43:25
you're all wrong...	Steven Lu	2004-12-30 16:08:39
The correct solution (simple and elegant)	kowalski	2004-08-08 20:54:49
The correct solution	Keith Jones	2002-12-10 10:32:16
SOLUTION FOR EGGALICIOUS	christopher hii	2002-07-12 03:18:52
re: 16 minute query	TomM	2002-07-11 12:01:34
16 minute query	Dulanjana	2002-07-11 04:33:35
re(3): Solution:	TomM	2002-07-09 08:34:51
re(2): Solution:	levik	2002-07-09 08:06:00
re: Solution:	G. Steve Arnold	2002-07-09 07:53:36
Two Solutions	Your Mom	2002-07-09 07:52:22
Solution:	G. Steve Arnold	2002-07-09 07:44:56
re(2): try..	Rupert	2002-07-09 07:03:09
Whoops	Dulanjana	2002-07-08 06:02:24
Solution	Dulanjana	2002-07-08 05:59:18
READ this not the one below	qball	2002-07-06 23:23:32
jeremy	qball	2002-07-06 23:22:34
No Subject	jeremy	2002-07-06 20:28:43
re: try..	TomM	2002-07-05 12:51:08
try..	Cheradenine	2002-07-05 07:18:06

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