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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.Situation
A man is working at a popcorn stand outside a movie and someone orders a large popcorn. He encourages them to get a medium one instead. Since there is no shortage at the counter, and he would presumably get more money if he sold more large popcorns, why does he make them get a medium?
Hint
Most people would have done this; he is seeing a way to make even more money.Answer
There is a "peel-and-win" contest going on in which one out of a million popcorn boxes is a winner. The man has learned to read the serial numbers on the boxes and knows that the next large popcorn is a ten-thousand dollar winner.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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If there was a long line and he knew he'd eventually run out of popcorn, he'll make more money by selling a bunch of mediums than a couple larges. Pretty contrived answer.
I'm with phily, if he sold mediums then people would want more because that wouldn't be enough and they would run out.
I was thinking more along the lines of making more money like u guys but i have one question.. how does he read the serial #'s? Wouldnt his boss notice that hes studing the boxes or something?
ShadowOfAnother, I have the same question as U... How the heck did he manage to read the serial numbers???
good one
this doesn't make sense because if he is waiting to purchase the popcorn himself so that he might profit, he would be unable to keep it because he works for the company.
interesting...but about serial numbers, i have no idea that they could be read and stuff like that. but how could the person know that the person who wanted the large popcorn knew that it was a winning one?
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