Cupcakes For Sale!
Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
Two boys were sent by their mothers to sell an equal amount of cupcakes each, worth one dollar per cupcake.
They were told not to eat the cupcakes they are selling, and that they should sell all of the cupcakes.
At the end of the day, all cupcakes were sold, yet neither boy gained nor lost a dollar.
What happened?
HintThe boys were obedient and did sell all the cupcakes. However, they ARE human...
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Answer
Each boy became hungry after a while. One boy decided to buy a cupcake from the other boy, paying him one dollar.
The other boy also decided to buy a cupcake from the first boy, paying him one dollar, too.
And so it continued until all the cupcakes were sold, and both boys came home full and happy.
I can't say the same for the moms, though.
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Comments
Zozo_The_Zo    
Jun 13, 2008
| got it! ez but fun |
BluEsor0214  
Jun 14, 2008
| Glad you like it!  |
kunju
Jun 14, 2008
| i guessed the answer  |
jsdodgers
Jun 15, 2008
| It's really easy. I saw it on Beavis and Butthead, the candy sale episode. |
castillion  
Jun 17, 2008
| Very good!! |
achilles3
Jun 18, 2008
| it's really easy,but good fun |
chris_tracy76
Jun 18, 2008
| Very easy...but very cute...thanks for submitting BluEsor0214..takes guts to submit teasers and wait for the approval |
StreetsDisciple
Jul 04, 2008
| good one  |
Flamey500
Aug 02, 2008
| I liked it! It as a bit hard but it was great!  |
changhill
Aug 02, 2008
| that was pretty easy (probably something i would do, lol) |
zxyggrhyn
Aug 24, 2008
| Na! Magagalit ang nanay nila!
(Oh! Their mom would be angry!)
Like ... 
Jaiaiaia |
june12
Sep 16, 2008
| oh that is too funny if you are not the moms  |
Wa11E
Sep 19, 2008
| Our cakes never make ir out of the door!  |
drwdrw 
Oct 20, 2008
| It might be a trick teaser... |
Dishhead5
Oct 29, 2008
| Easy
But very funny... stupid boys  |
westbrook
Dec 13, 2008
| Interesting teaser. |
NDYApeacock
Dec 20, 2008
| Funny!! great teaser~ |
KiraKaty
Nov 15, 2009
| I technically got it wrong, I thought they would buy a cupcake from themselves.  It's pretty close though. |
Bajanator 
Aug 07, 2011
| Ahaha I thought, since 'they ARE human' they forget to put out the sign for the price. |
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