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Welcome to Title Builder Beta.

This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

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Hard boiled eggs! Maths based quiz question...

holoscofo | 12:53 Mon 12th Mar 2012 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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You have one 7 minute egg timer and one 4 minute egg timer. How do you accurately measure 9 minutes without taking any longer than 9 mins?

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i Cryptic Crossword No 339

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Ellipsis

I saw this in the Sunday Times yesterday, as part of a "interview questions from hell" article.

The answer is to start timing on your watch, then build a nice tower out of the two egg timers to give you something to do while the nine minutes is passing ...

holoscofo

Question Author

lol Ellipsis, yes I heard the article being discussed on local radio this morning and it piqued my interest

dr b

Yes, timing it on your iPhone seems like a perfectly sensible way to do it. If you are stuck with only egg timers, though:

Start both egg timers. When the 4 runs out, turn it over (4 minutes gone). When the 7 runs out, turn it over (7 minutes gone). When the 4 runs out this time (8 minutes gone), the 7 has been running for 1 minute. Turn it over once again (1 minute of sand is now on top). When it stops, 9 minutes are up.

chelle7272

Turn both at the same time
When the 4 min one has elapsed the other one will be split 3 and 4 minutes
turn them again
when the 3 minutes (in the 7m timer) has elapsed the 4 m one will be split 3 and 1 and the other 7 and 0
Turn them again when the 1 min has elapsed turn the other one back over for the final minute

Ellipsis

Very good, dr b! My vote for Best Answer ...

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