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mcphil3
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« on: February 12, 2009, 06:49:20 PM »

FWIW-

We had trouble with regular M&Ms but the Valentines Peanut M&Ms worked well (Three colors; read, white and pink).

Told the kids they had to eat our mistakes.  I think that may have been counter-productive...

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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2009, 01:21:38 AM »

FWIW-

We had trouble with regular M&Ms but the Valentines Peanut M&Ms worked well (Three colors; read, white and pink).

Told the kids they had to eat our mistakes.  I think that may have been counter-productive...

-McPhil

Thanks for the info. Smiley
Actually, I tested the program and the sorter with the M&Ms that are available here in Germany. I didn't know that there might be different sizes in the States.
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2009, 02:40:34 PM »

Just for our information Matthias,

What is the bag color of the M&M's you get over there?

We have M&M's in brown packages, which are made out of chocolate and a colored layer around them. We also have M&M's in yellow packages which have peanuts inside the chocolate. Therefore, these are way bigger.

What should we use?

(P.S We can actually buy a third type of M&M's, with rice inside  Huh, but I never tried those)
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« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2009, 02:05:17 AM »

What is the bag color of the M&M's you get over there?
We have M&M's in brown packages, which are made out of chocolate and a colored layer around them. We also have M&M's in yellow packages which have peanuts inside the chocolate. Therefore, these are way bigger.
What should we use?

Ah, I see.
It's the ones in the yellow bag M has been designed for and tested with.
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