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The Egg Drop

Can you drop the egg in the glass of water?


What could be more exciting than a flying pie pan and an egg falling into a glass of water? Get ready for some fun! The goal is to get the egg into the glass of water but there are a few obstacles... a pie pan and the fact that the egg is perched high atop a cardboard tube. Sir Isaac Newton might have to come to the rescue of this amazing table trick.