Braingle: 'Going Crackers' Brain Teaser

Going Crackers

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Puzzle ID:	#13552
Fun:	(2.98)
Difficulty:	(1.95)
Category:	Trick
Submitted By:	cool_star
Corrected By:	cnmne

A cracker company was very mad when they heard the results from their cracker survey. The result said that the customers would prefer crackers to nothing at all. The same customers think that donuts are better than everything else.

A new employee at the company had to tell their boss the bad news, but he saw a window of opportunity to get a promotion. When he got to his boss, he told him that the customers really preferred crackers to donuts.

How did he come up with that?

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Comments

Fasil Jul 09, 2003	clever
cool_star Jul 10, 2003	thank you very much!
doggyxp Jul 18, 2003	So it's kind of like a play on words... nice one!
cool_star Jul 21, 2003	thank you very very very very (well you get the point) much.
jose_samraj Aug 01, 2003	cool puzzle
cool_star Aug 02, 2003	thank you! ;)
rose_rox Aug 11, 2003	man..... that's smart.
cool_star Aug 12, 2003	Thanks a bunch!
Serendipity Aug 21, 2003	very cute...
cool_star Aug 25, 2003	Cute? Thanks anyways!
--------- Jun 14, 2004	thanks for that i really enjoyed it seemingly a basic logic problem when u see the answer but is so much more than that
rashad Jul 08, 2004	I didn't get it at all
tissue Nov 01, 2004	Very clever.
youngest1000 Nov 01, 2004	That's pretty cool, but it's not a trick - maybe a language one
I_am_the_Omega Nov 22, 2004	Lol... clever, i guess ;p But... it's based upon two different meanings of the word "nothing" ... and, it also means the guy lied lol. I was thinking, maybe he meant crackers were better than donuts (as in the car wheel) loll..
trickart262 Mar 15, 2005	I LOVED IT! Clever!
DummyisDumb Mar 26, 2005	I put this on my favorites!
DummyisDumb Mar 26, 2005	I put this on my favorites!
DummyisDumb Mar 26, 2005	I put this one on my favorites
cool_star Mar 27, 2005	me feel proud
Question_Mark Nov 21, 2005	I've heard this before.
calmsavior Sep 17, 2006	oh i love this one! i heard it was peanuts instead of donuts.
cool_star Sep 18, 2006	Eh...peanuts, donuts...same difference
cyberstar5150 Jan 16, 2007	The logic's kinda flawed in this one... sorry dude, but this teaser confuses grammatical logic with mathematical. Can't do that.
brudork Feb 12, 2007
nerdyiscool May 28, 2007	I got.....something along those lines. Yeah.
LeafFan4life May 28, 2007	nice work i was going nuts trying to fgure out why the title sed going crackers but i figured out that is was just a title and not a teaser
cloughme Dec 05, 2007	I like it!!
moriarty94 Dec 05, 2007	I thought that you could conclude that all the customers were lying because if they truly preferred crackers to nothing then they would not have become cracker customers. By logic, you could say that they preferred crackers to donuts.
lucy_i Dec 05, 2007	hehehe! excellent
MzPink85 Dec 05, 2007	good teaser!!
katamaster Dec 05, 2007	Even reading the answer, this doesn't make sense. I guess I need more coffee!
bradon182001 Dec 05, 2007	Perfect logic. Nice teaser, sure made you think.
tommysmo Dec 05, 2007	Excellent!!!
UptheHill Dec 05, 2007	Two words, Well Done!!
DeeOhGee Dec 05, 2007	Even after putting down my donut, I couldn't come up with this clever one. I must be going crackers. Fun Teaser!
dogg6pound9 Dec 05, 2007	great teaser... logic was my favorite and best subject in math... thanx for a truly creative one... send some more this way
hradilv Dec 05, 2007	Ugh... Mathematically correct, but grammatically faulty. Good try.
2ndhandrose Dec 05, 2007	I really tried to get this one but maybe I missed the clue"Nothing is better than Donuts"? I think I saw they liked donuts better? Most everyone else got it so be a little slow today. I came up with there was a hole in the donut theory. Another Tea please. Thanks for the Teaser anyway, The answer was cool !
auntiesis Dec 05, 2007	Very cute, very funny, but I didn't get it right. I was going in the right direction, but took a sideroad and got lost.
mondayschild59 Dec 05, 2007	With a fever of 102degrees I got it right. Maybe that's the secret. Fry your brain and it works better.LOL Thanks for brightening my miserable day. Loved the teaser. Monday~
moody12345 Dec 05, 2007	that was great!
dudebomb93 Dec 05, 2007	nice one
Knowbody Dec 05, 2007	2ndhandrose, they arrived at that conclusion because "donuts are better than everything" equates to "nothing it better than donuts." If donuts are better than everything, nothing can be better than them or it would be donuts are better than everything EXCEPT that one thing that is better. See? Good teaser.
jabdr Dec 05, 2007	Too clever and too hard for me. Total 'gotcha"
irar1792 Dec 05, 2007	It's good, if a bit of a stretch. Never a good idea to say anything that even possibly be interpretted as a lie to a boss.
AuthenticallyMe Dec 05, 2007	Smart...nice... I liked the teaser... It was ingenious... Never would have thought of the answer... Unique... Thanks for the great teaser!
roxy5 Dec 06, 2007	it took me a while to understand the logic.
mm44 Dec 06, 2007	i thought it was that doughnuts were sooo full of sugar that their nutritional value was, pretty much, nothing. great teaser! i enjoyed it!!!
happyhak Dec 15, 2007	LOL! That was a good teaser!
jonas Oct 30, 2009	hahahahahaha... continues for 50 more pages
mathisnice Mar 22, 2010	Excellent teaser!
ROCStorm Dec 05, 2010	Very similar to the ham sandwich. If a ham sandwich is better than nothing, and nothing is better than eternal happiness then a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness
crocodile Dec 05, 2010	Ooooooooh... clever!
Checkmate1 Dec 05, 2010	2 different meanings of "nothing". But cute, I guess. So did he get a promotion?
HarryPutter Mar 23, 2011	^ Yeah, it uses the equivocation fallacy. Nice teaser, though