A broken egg is pretty goopy and messy. That’s why there’s an Egg Throwing Competition in Swaton, England. Two people on a team stand 33 feet apart and one tosses an egg to the other. After each catch, that player has to take one step back and toss the egg back, making it harder and harder. The team that does the longest toss without breaking the egg wins!
Lace up: If you throw an egg to your friend, then your friend throws to you, then you throw, then your friend…who throws next? What number toss is it?
Jog: If you and your friend start 5 steps apart, and each of you takes 1 step back, how far apart are you now?
Sprint: If you drop the egg only on the 3rd toss and on every 3rd toss after that, does the 8th egg break?
Hurdle: If you and your egg-toss partner are 42 steps apart and you’ve each taken 7 steps, how close together did you start?
High Jump: If you and your egg-toss partner end up 60 steps farther apart than where you started, and you’re now 3 times farther apart than your starting distance, how many steps apart did you start?
Answers:
Lace up: You throw next, on the 5th toss.
Jog: 7 steps.
Sprint: No, it survives!
Hurdle: 28 steps.
High Jump: 30 steps apart. The 60-step increase added enough that the starting distance became just 1 part out of 3, so it added 2 new parts the same size. So 60 is 2 times the starting distance.
