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Holiday Brain Teaser
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02/01/2003 11:38:21
 
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Games
Category:
Trivia
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00737246
Message ID:
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>Let each fuse burn for 15 minutes and extinguish them. The rest of each fuse will burn for 45 minutes.
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>>You have two fuses of variable lengths.
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>>Each fuse burns for exactly 1 hour.
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>>Each fuse burns unevenly. ( example 1/10th of the fuse could burn for 50 minutes and the rest of the fuse could take 10 minutes. ) You don't know until after the fuse has burned up.
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>>Make the two fuses last exactly 45 minutes.

You don't have a watch or any other way of telling time. How can you determine when 15 minutes is up?
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