Counter-intuitive Puzzle Solution

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The puzzle was first posed (in a slightly different form) by Timothy Chow in 2010 .

It was picked up by StackExchange and more recently by Gil Kalai , a former plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians , on his blog.

It is interesting to professional mathematicians because even they struggle to find an intuitive explanation for why Andrew gets a prize first .

If you can come up with a simple, intuitive explanation please share it below!.

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