Can you solve the jail break riddle? - Dan Finkel

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Your timing made you and your partner the most infamous bank robbers in the west.

Now, you'll need to use that timing to help you break out of jail.

At the appointed time, you'll be walking in the yard near the electric fence.

Your partner will flash you the signal, and exactly 45 seconds later, short out the fence circuit.

It'll automatically restart after a second or two, but as long as you move fast, you'll be home free.

And then you notice, to your horror, that your watch is broken, and there's no time to fix it.

The signal is coming, and if you make even a small mistake in counting off 45 seconds, you'll get fried.

Searching your pockets, you find something that might help: a lighter and two fuses you made earlier in the prison work program.

Each fuse is a length of flammable twine, built to be lit on either end and burn for precisely one minute.

The problem is that even though the fuses look uniform, they don't burn evenly, so if you cut one in half, for example, one side might burn longer than the other.

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