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Going Crackers
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?
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?
Answer
The new employee told the boss that they know two facts;1) Crackers are better than nothing, and
2) Nothing is better than donuts
If you put two of them together, you get that crackers are better than donuts.
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clever
thank you very much!
So it's kind of like a play on words... nice one!
thank you very very very very (well you get the point) much.
cool puzzle
thank you! ;)
man..... that's smart.
Thanks a bunch!
very cute...
Cute? Thanks anyways!
thanks for that i really enjoyed it seemingly a basic logic problem when u see the answer but is so much more than that
I didn't get it at all
Very clever.
That's pretty cool, but it's not a trick - maybe a language one
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..
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..
I LOVED IT! Clever!
I put this on my favorites!
I put this on my favorites!
I put this one on my favorites
me feel proud
I've heard this before.
oh i love this one!
i heard it was peanuts instead of donuts.
i heard it was peanuts instead of donuts.
Eh...peanuts, donuts...same difference
The logic's kinda flawed in this one... sorry dude, but this teaser confuses grammatical logic with mathematical. Can't do that.
I got.....something along those lines. Yeah.
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
I like it!!
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.
hehehe! excellent
good teaser!!
Even reading the answer, this doesn't make sense. I guess I need more coffee!
Perfect logic. Nice teaser, sure made you think.
Excellent!!!
Two words, Well Done!!
Even after putting down my donut, I couldn't come up with this clever one. I must be going crackers. Fun Teaser!
great teaser... logic was my favorite and best subject in math... thanx for a truly creative one... send some more this way
Ugh... Mathematically correct, but grammatically faulty. Good try.
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 !
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 !
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.
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~
Thanks for brightening my miserable day. Loved the teaser.
Monday~
that was great!
nice one
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.
Good teaser.
Too clever and too hard for me. Total 'gotcha"
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.
Smart...nice...
I liked the teaser... It was ingenious... Never would have thought of the answer... Unique... Thanks for the great teaser!
I liked the teaser... It was ingenious... Never would have thought of the answer... Unique... Thanks for the great teaser!
it took me a while to understand the logic.
i thought it was that doughnuts were sooo full of sugar that their nutritional value was, pretty much, nothing.
great teaser! i enjoyed it!!!
great teaser! i enjoyed it!!!
LOL! That was a good teaser!
hahahahahaha... *continues for 50 more pages*
Excellent teaser!
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
If a ham sandwich is better than nothing, and nothing is better than eternal happiness then a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness
Ooooooooh... clever!
2 different meanings of "nothing".
But cute, I guess.
So did he get a promotion?
But cute, I guess.
So did he get a promotion?
^ Yeah, it uses the equivocation fallacy. Nice teaser, though
I thought it was rather obvious! Cute!
Great teaser! Very cute!
Sorry, but it makes no sense; how can customers prefer crackers to nothing at all?
If I had the choice of eating nothing or crackers, I too would prefer crackers!
Are you saying they would prefer to eat only crackers, nothing else for their entire lives?
If I had the choice of eating nothing or crackers, I too would prefer crackers!
Are you saying they would prefer to eat only crackers, nothing else for their entire lives?
Cute. I get it. Not bad. Now to geek out and play the devil's advocate.
Yes, people would like a cracker if the alternative is to have nothing.
Now to say people like doughnuts better then "everything else" does not say nothing is better than doughnuts. It says "everything else" is not better than doughnuts. Everything else would include a rotten egg, a poke in the eye, and verbal abuse, as well as infinitely many other unsavory experiences.
Now, if they preferred doughnuts to "anything else", you might have an argument for this logic.
Fun with teasers.
Yes, people would like a cracker if the alternative is to have nothing.
Now to say people like doughnuts better then "everything else" does not say nothing is better than doughnuts. It says "everything else" is not better than doughnuts. Everything else would include a rotten egg, a poke in the eye, and verbal abuse, as well as infinitely many other unsavory experiences.
Now, if they preferred doughnuts to "anything else", you might have an argument for this logic.
Fun with teasers.
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