Does hot water freeze faster than cold water?

Question: Does hot water freeze faster than cold water?
- Keywords:
  physical state,
  temperature,
  water
Asked by till.bob to Yasmin on 16 Jun 2015.
- Yasmin Ali answered on 16 Jun 2015:
  
  Hello! I was just about to say no, but I looked into it a bit more… and apparently under some conditions, hot water can freeze faster than cold water, it’s called the Mpemba effect, after a Tanzanian high school student who brought this phenomena up in 1969!
  
  Thanks for the question, I didn’t know about this!

Question: Does hot water freeze faster than cold water?