When it’s not rigged as a whale-killing weapon, the toaster in our galley takes just two slices of bread at a time, toasting only one side of each slice at a time. To toast the other side you’ve got to turn the slice over then put the sucker back in the damn toaster. It takes exactly one minute to toast one side. Now, say you’ve got a missile about to be launched at you from a Tortolan navy destroyer. The missile will hit your deck in three minutes and fifteen seconds. You need to get the crap into your lifeboat (it takes fifteen seconds to get to it from the galley), but you still want breakfast. You want to toast both sides of three pieces of bread. Here's the question: Can you do it in three minutes or less? If so, how? Or, if you try, will you end up toast yourself?

First right answer (along with an explanation as to why, potential wiseguys) and you've got yourself a scrimshaw.

Meanwhile,will me and my crew stop farting around with these puzzles and kill us whale?
 
   

 


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honkey on
Re: Toast or Be Toast?
yes it can be done in 3 minutes.

you have essentially 3 minutes to toast 3 pieces of toast.

each piece of toast has 2 sides which to some purist (not me) has to be toasted on both sides.

we have toast 1, 2 and 3.  each piece of toast has two sides so that would be toast 1-a and b sides, toast 2- a and b sides and toast 3- a and b sides


you would first toast

1a and 2a

next toast 1b and 3a

next toast 2b and 3b


you have three separate toastings each toasting takes 3 minutes so it takes 3 minutes to toast all three pieces of bread.


honkey

honkey on
Re: Toast or Be Toast?
a little correction.  each toasting takes 1 minute and you have 3 toastings so all 3 toastings will take 3 minutes.
wendyinchicago on
Re: Toast or Be Toast?
Yes you can do it....put two slices in slot one getting the outside of each slice, while in slot two you have a full slice toasted.  When that minute is up, take the slices out of slot one and put each in a slot, toasting the opposite side....it maybe over toasted but after all it is just breakfast before the time is up...  .


ps..it's my bday and i've been drinking so ...shit this is the best i can come up with..

kj4ever on
Re: Toast or Be Toast?
Damn I haven't been drinking and that was the best I could come up with...lol
hester on
Re: Toast or Be Toast?
Ok, why do you keep crap in your galley, I thought you had beans and chowder stocked in there.  First off, MOVE THE BOAT dumbass, secondly the toaster is currently rigged and will kill you if you try to use it to toast your bread thirdly - if your trying to out run the Tortolan army, then you don't need toast, or breakfast for that matter - again, MOVE THE BOAT, dumbass - spoken with a very caring attitude.

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