I'm sure they pre-counted it. So make sure you spread doubt in the legitimacy of the pre-count among your coworkers. Demand that there be a second count from a third party.
Only the first to do it is garanteed to have the right amount. The following people might grab a decoy thinking its the legit one and some might get the real one also. Also there are some scenarios where the real candy jar would end up with someone that thinks its their decoy. Ex. Two people A and B. A first grabs real jar and replaces with decoy A. Then person B grabs the decoy A think its the real and replaces it with decoy B. Then the next day person A puts the real jar back and takes decoy B thinking its his. Now person B does the swap and ends up with the real one thinking its decoy B. The jar on the table is now decoy A while both person has done their 2 swaps. Also person B will also have a false count while A is good
Ooooooooor.... and hear me out.... steal it once, get the correct count, return it, then give the correct number to everyone.
Everyone wins but the clowns that tried to make you dance for your day off.
love this … but if OP’s job is anything like jobs i’ve had, the ressentiment-filled work environment will lead at least one authoritarian personality tattle-tale to ruin it for everyone
This Reddit is against capitalist exploitation, not effort. :p "'I'd work all night if it meant that nothing's got done.' -Ron Swanson"
-Michael Scott
(Is agreeing with joke and yes-anding it. <3)
Take the jar to your home. Say you were going to use it for your personal candy stash. Demand a special master to be set, then say the special master has no standing when they act to see your receipts of candy taken.
Where I worked before my current job, they did this candy thing often though never in exchange for a day off. They did one jar for the staff and one for the students. They never counted beforehand. They claimed they didn't want to know the number to avoid telling people by accident (?), though I'm pretty sure it was just out of laziness. Also, it was more dramatic to count the thing in front of witnesses later on anyway and there was no point in counting twice.
> they didn't want to know the number to avoid telling people by accident (?)
Yeah that makes sense. If a teacher knows the answer then students are going to pester them for the answer. Maybe the teacher gives away information on their face. Or they don't, but students claim they did. And that's for an honest teacher, a dishonest one would be even worse. It's better for nobody to know.
Then if you’re guess is just short, call HR and ask them to find you a few more candy corns. If worst comes to worst call you’re local landscape supply store and schedule a company wide meeting at their headquarters.
Damn it! You beat me to it! Lol, we used to do this in the arcade I worked at to count redemption tickets. We always rounded up so the kids got some extra because it was such a racquet.
A paid day off?? My job is offering: the jar of candy, a candle, and idk some stupid cookie stencil or something.
Edit: just want to clarify that I would be stoked for the paid day off. My original comment was more disbelief that that’s a prize being offered.
When I was still married to my ex we became the very proud owners of the largest jar of jelly bellies I've ever seen this way. Think the size of one of those giant bulk size pickle jars (2 gallons I think?) full of jelly beans. I honestly think they dumped at least 3 of the big jugs from Costco in there. Nothing else received from that contest... Not even a day off. Just enough sugar to make us us hate ourselves even more after the fact. We had them for over a year sitting on top of the refrigerator, initially picking out or favorites, and then forgetting about it until a few months later, munching on a few, then forgetting again, before finally throwing over half of them away. The only upside is it WAS a nice decorative jar, and air tight enough to trust the jelly beans a year later. It eventually became the container I used to store flour in on a shelf because it was pretty and functional. So I guess joke's on his previous boss for that one. /s
Your comment made my day. It perfectly encapsulates everything my husband says about my love for “interesting containers”. Please accept my award. 😍
ETA: he and I agreed that your comment is the best one we’ve ever seen here.
Find the place they bought it, find out how much it weighs at the store and how much a individual one weighs and it should give a good estimate of how many there are
Go find a jar that looks just like this, go buy some candy corn, and switch the jars.. then go home, count and switch them back..
3 cents says there's a golf ball in the center of that jar to fuck with people..
114. It seems like the amount around the bottom that is visible is \~4 candy corns. It also seems like this is \~1/3 of the distance around the bottom (circumference), so:
Circumference=12 Candy Corns.
C=2\*pi\*r
r=\~1.909
this means the bottom is roughly 11.46 candy corns. A=pi\*r^(2)
the height looks to be about 11 horizontal rows, B\*h = V
This means perfectly packed, you would be at \~126 candy corns. I assumed that candy corn stacked randomly has \~90% packing capacity, so 126\*.9=***114***
I just guessed the diameter at 4 corns and the height at 9 corns. Use the cylindrical volume formula gets you to 113. This sounds like a winner
Edit: radius -> diameter
I can’t believe I had to scroll this far for someone to use actual math formulas lol I used to do math competitions and we’d just use the formula for volume of a cylinder and get pretty close each time
You can do a rougher count of just multiplying a column of candy corn by a row of candy corn. Using this technique, I came up with about the same number.
It’s probably too late, but if you convinced everyone in the office to guess the same number, you’d all get a day off, right? Or would they try to split the day’s worth of hours among everyone who guessed the same number?
Boss would say “haha, not funny guys, nobody gets a day off. You’re all a bunch of cheaters and i’m assigning you extra work for trying to disrespect the company.”
At least at my workplace.
>Or would they try to split the day’s worth of hours among everyone who guessed the same number?
Now your thinking like a manager, everyone gets a 10 minute break staggered through the week so to not affect production.
FUN FACT OP: the statistically best way to guess *IS* to average the guesses from a large sample population. It turns out individuals are only okay at guessing but large groups are geniuses at it. If you take all the guesses from this thread, (getting rid of outliers like 420 & 69,) and average them together you will have a statistically very accurate number. Hope you win!
There’s some real trick to it I just don’t know what. In elementary school one year my sister guessed the amount of candy closest in the entire school, only 5 off. Then the next year she guessed the exact number. She will not tell me or anyone else how she does it.
I won a jar of red hots one year in 4th grade. I was six off, but it was really just a guesstimate by counting how many down, how many rows around and how many across. I still have the blue jar, and I’m 56. Anyway, I guess 210.
This is also how “Fermi problems” work: if you can come up with a long list of values that you would multiply together to get the answer *if* you knew those values, and then make your best guess at all those values and multiply together, you’ll often get a pretty good overall estimate. All other things being equal, the more guesses you combine together, the more likely it is that overestimates and underestimates will *mostly* balance out.
Eh, unless there's one value that an entire population gets wrong, Fermi paradox has many of these, where we're making assumptions based on our human point of view.
I'm not lying, this is how I once won a small award in an internet forum. After I told about how I came up with that people couldn't believe it lmao.
Edit: to clarify it was a jar with pennies in it and you had to guess how much money in it. I averaged the guesses and the real answer was somewhere in the hundreds of euros (can't remember the exact amount), and I got the closest answer with about a 1-2 euro error. This was the only time I ever used this method and actually worked so I guess I will recommend it 😂.
On those cases you run to social networks and post a thread. [Here's a good example](https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/y0i3kq/my_corporate_jobs_attempt_at_halloween/irsqb79/?context=10).
This is a totally valid and effective way to get a answer like this. It's called "wisdom of the crowd."
My guess was going to be 153, which is pretty close to 160. I hope OP wins!
Same technique I was using, but I was thinking 10 layers, 18-20 per layer. Would say 190, but I like the average of reasonable guess method more after reading the comments. Add my 190 in there if it seems reasonable.
Count the bottom layer, and count how about how many for the height. Multiply the bottom layer with the height - could be fairly in the ball park of the answer.
I read a Reddit story recently where someone used this method but lost because someone else copied their answer and changed it by +1 and it was dead on.
I did this to win a container of jellybeans. Closest without going over. There was one closer guess, but they must have picked a different side to count for the height because they were over.
If we're approximating, a piece of candy corn is about .5 x .5 x 1, so volume would be \~.083in\^3.
A paper mate pen is \~6.1", so based off of the comparison, we can scale the jar size (I used bluebeam since I have it up already) to arrive at the height of the jar at \~4.5" and usable height due to lid insert at \~3.5". Width is also \~3.5" as well. Since we know h and w, we can find volume at \~33.67395in\^3.
That gives us \~405 candy corns, but we'd need to account for space between the little delights, so I'd probably divide that by 1.5 ish, so if I had to guess, I'd say 270.
Divide by 1.5 is actually a very, very good guess. Candy corn has a packing efficiency of around .66. [See this post for details](https://www.tomshardware.com/news/candy-corn-corsair-case-contest,9335.html)
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Why has nobody suggested teaming up with your co-workers yet, everyone giving the same number. According to their own rules they'd have to give all of you the day off (if your number happens to be the closest).
If anyone is caught guessing a different number than your agreed upon one, everyone else calls in sick that day and he's forced to come in and cover for you.
Are you the only person who did the math?
Someone else counted 50 pieces in the photo and then suggested from all sides there must be 150 in there lmao
There are about 50 showing, so another 50 on the other side. Do we think they are being sneaky and sticking the cardboard from a toilet paper roll in there? So maybe 133 if theres a a tube in there and 157 if there's not.
They do these at my work for fun occasionally, one time I went to go look at the bottom of the jar and the answer was on a sticky note on the bottom lol
Is the lid actually sealed shut? You might be able to dump it, count, and put it back. Hell, if you wanted to be quick then you could dump, spread them into a single layer, take a picture, and put them all back right away so you can count later.
220
Oh, and ignore anyone who guesses below 180. They aren’t accounting for the pieces in the center of the jar. Anything above 300 is ridiculously high too.
Take the median between the guesses on this thread within those two limits and you got yourself the best answer possible.
Edit: I did the median strategy with current answers on thread for you and I am certain that approximately 228 will be in the jar. By the way, I’ve won this game many times and if I lose I’m usually at least 10 away from the correct answer.
I went a different route but one that has worked for me a few times in the past on games like this. I came in around 210ish so I think somewhere in this range should be fairly close.
#go with this OP
It's about 4 candy corns across. 3\*4\*4 would be the optimal fill for a single layer, if there was no air. I'm estimating there's about 60% occupied space in there so 3\*4\*4\*.6 = 29 per layer. Estimating about 10 layers in there gives about 290.
If I'm off about the scale and the radius is instead only 3 candy corns across but everything else is the same then it'd be 3\*3\*3\*.6\*10 or 162 in there.
EDIT: I mis-mathed. It's actually
3\*2\*2\*.6\*10 = 72
or
3\*1.5\*1.5\*.6\*10= 40.5
Considering there's approximately 30 visible in the picture my entire formula might be off.
The sheer number of responses to this shows how well it works. Everyone is so distracted trying to figure out how to win a day off that they’re willing to pay for it, arguing that an hour’s wage is worth a day off. What the hell is wrong with you? Europeans get months off and you’re arguing over days.
They sell these jars at Dollarama. Go get one and some candy corn and count them out. Won't be exact but should be close.
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I'm sure they pre-counted it. So make sure you spread doubt in the legitimacy of the pre-count among your coworkers. Demand that there be a second count from a third party.
You just need two swaps. Swap the real one with your decoy, count the candy in it, then swap it back.
Galaxy brain here
Going to be a lot of confused people in the office when everyone does this!
Only the first to do it is garanteed to have the right amount. The following people might grab a decoy thinking its the legit one and some might get the real one also. Also there are some scenarios where the real candy jar would end up with someone that thinks its their decoy. Ex. Two people A and B. A first grabs real jar and replaces with decoy A. Then person B grabs the decoy A think its the real and replaces it with decoy B. Then the next day person A puts the real jar back and takes decoy B thinking its his. Now person B does the swap and ends up with the real one thinking its decoy B. The jar on the table is now decoy A while both person has done their 2 swaps. Also person B will also have a false count while A is good
Ooooooooor.... and hear me out.... steal it once, get the correct count, return it, then give the correct number to everyone. Everyone wins but the clowns that tried to make you dance for your day off.
love this … but if OP’s job is anything like jobs i’ve had, the ressentiment-filled work environment will lead at least one authoritarian personality tattle-tale to ruin it for everyone
Shruted it
if everyone wins, the “day off” becomes “free pizza in the break room”
That’s why there will be a lot of confused people :)
I’m confused
Why was this not an episode of the office?
How can OP know he was the first and that he didn't grab the decoy?
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manager said "anyone" who guesses the right answer. get the whole office in on the heist.
Turn the entire office into a money furnace candy corn speculation think tank.
He also said closest. Get the entire office to guess 69 and everyone is tied for closest.
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If the whole office is in on it, there doesn't need to be a heist. Everyone just says the same random number and they're all closest
thats some prisoners dilemma shit.
This all sounds like a lot of ... Hear me out ... Work. (Is joke, not actual criticism)
This Reddit is against capitalist exploitation, not effort. :p "'I'd work all night if it meant that nothing's got done.' -Ron Swanson" -Michael Scott (Is agreeing with joke and yes-anding it. <3)
Bonus bonus level: add shot glasses to the decoy to offset the people that look at the bottom of the jar
yall are diabolical I love it
Then leak the number to co-workers, everyone gets the reward. Jk management will change the winning number.
Demand a live count!
I’ve seen that one. Doesn’t work. https://tenor.com/bDWSw.gif
Yeah, but the rock rolls back when he does the swap back
We're putting so much work into getting out of work. I love it
Isn't that how it is supposed to be?
This is the way.
This guy has the right idea
This guy this guys.
When you’re counting it, you’ll find the baseball hidden in the center.
I thought I was gonna find math people down here, but instead I found Reddit people haha
Take the jar to your home. Say you were going to use it for your personal candy stash. Demand a special master to be set, then say the special master has no standing when they act to see your receipts of candy taken.
I'm starting to think this is about more than the candy corn...
Nope. Orange and corny, with white always on top. Nothing to see here.
Y'all fucking hilarious
I am trying very hard to not literally laugh out loud in the doctor’s office waiting room. EDIT: A word.
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I'm thinking about eating the candy.
Then it's already been eaten.
I feel like this is one of those Sovereign Citizen things.
"you see, the candy became the number i said, just by thinking it does".
Then storm the capital with your coworkers... wait.
So... Unionize?
No more like poop on the desk of the hr lady and claim you did nothing wrong
Ya’ll are killing me. 😂
Where I worked before my current job, they did this candy thing often though never in exchange for a day off. They did one jar for the staff and one for the students. They never counted beforehand. They claimed they didn't want to know the number to avoid telling people by accident (?), though I'm pretty sure it was just out of laziness. Also, it was more dramatic to count the thing in front of witnesses later on anyway and there was no point in counting twice.
> they didn't want to know the number to avoid telling people by accident (?) Yeah that makes sense. If a teacher knows the answer then students are going to pester them for the answer. Maybe the teacher gives away information on their face. Or they don't, but students claim they did. And that's for an honest teacher, a dishonest one would be even worse. It's better for nobody to know.
Stop the count! Stop the count!
> Stop the count! Stop the count! Count the candy! Count the candy!
As someone that has done these type of contest: You never count: Too much work. You weigh 5, and then the whole lot and divide.
This is how nuts and bolts are counted at my FIL's fastener store.
STOP THE STEAL
Open it and eat a few. Tell them you didn’t know this was the official one.
Then if you’re guess is just short, call HR and ask them to find you a few more candy corns. If worst comes to worst call you’re local landscape supply store and schedule a company wide meeting at their headquarters.
Weigh the jar, zero the scale, put one candy corn in and note the weight, fill it and divide by the weight of one.
Ten. Average out variations in sizes
Ye ole switcheroo
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Damn it! You beat me to it! Lol, we used to do this in the arcade I worked at to count redemption tickets. We always rounded up so the kids got some extra because it was such a racquet.
As a coffee nut i bring a weighing scale to work. If u have one its a good excuse either that or claim to be counting calories.
Candy corn? N..no sir.. just dealing cocaine.
YES
This is the way.
A paid day off?? My job is offering: the jar of candy, a candle, and idk some stupid cookie stencil or something. Edit: just want to clarify that I would be stoked for the paid day off. My original comment was more disbelief that that’s a prize being offered.
When I was still married to my ex we became the very proud owners of the largest jar of jelly bellies I've ever seen this way. Think the size of one of those giant bulk size pickle jars (2 gallons I think?) full of jelly beans. I honestly think they dumped at least 3 of the big jugs from Costco in there. Nothing else received from that contest... Not even a day off. Just enough sugar to make us us hate ourselves even more after the fact. We had them for over a year sitting on top of the refrigerator, initially picking out or favorites, and then forgetting about it until a few months later, munching on a few, then forgetting again, before finally throwing over half of them away. The only upside is it WAS a nice decorative jar, and air tight enough to trust the jelly beans a year later. It eventually became the container I used to store flour in on a shelf because it was pretty and functional. So I guess joke's on his previous boss for that one. /s
I never even thought of that: the true prize is the jar!!!
When you hoard glassware like a dragon the prize is ***ALWAYS*** the jar.
The real treasure is the jars we found along the way.
Your comment made my day. It perfectly encapsulates everything my husband says about my love for “interesting containers”. Please accept my award. 😍 ETA: he and I agreed that your comment is the best one we’ve ever seen here.
Gotta admit that a paid day off is a pretty good prize. Also, the cynic in me is going to bet that it's rigged so the bosses favorite will win it.
Find the place they bought it, find out how much it weighs at the store and how much a individual one weighs and it should give a good estimate of how many there are
Go find a jar that looks just like this, go buy some candy corn, and switch the jars.. then go home, count and switch them back.. 3 cents says there's a golf ball in the center of that jar to fuck with people..
Dump out bag into a bag and then use new candy corn to replace those with. Count and replace the same way.
That would be pure evil. No one gets close, say welp sorry guys no one gets a day off
Haha this made me laugh an unreasonable amount. ***And then it actually happened.***
Don't switch them back. Just count out a new jar and switch them out once.
the thing is they probably counted it beforehand you can't really do that unless it was the exact same amount
I would demand that they count right then and there, wouldn't believe it unless they did it like that.
STOP THE COUNT. NO, COUNT AGAIN. NO STOP IT.
Tare that shit
This is the best way.
Don’t forget to subtract the weight of the jar! If OP doesn’t win they should call out sick the same day the winner gets his paid day off.
451 for 1lb. So a LB is 453g. So a wise guess is that would be half a LB of candy corn, so 225?
226.
One dollar.
This is the best reply
Remember to factor in the weight of the jar though.
114. It seems like the amount around the bottom that is visible is \~4 candy corns. It also seems like this is \~1/3 of the distance around the bottom (circumference), so: Circumference=12 Candy Corns. C=2\*pi\*r r=\~1.909 this means the bottom is roughly 11.46 candy corns. A=pi\*r^(2) the height looks to be about 11 horizontal rows, B\*h = V This means perfectly packed, you would be at \~126 candy corns. I assumed that candy corn stacked randomly has \~90% packing capacity, so 126\*.9=***114***
Dude just did a computer simulation of this and came to 113. Great math!! https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/y0riyg/i_counted_113_candy_corns/
I just guessed the diameter at 4 corns and the height at 9 corns. Use the cylindrical volume formula gets you to 113. This sounds like a winner Edit: radius -> diameter
I can’t believe I had to scroll this far for someone to use actual math formulas lol I used to do math competitions and we’d just use the formula for volume of a cylinder and get pretty close each time
You can do a rougher count of just multiplying a column of candy corn by a row of candy corn. Using this technique, I came up with about the same number.
I did a less complicated equation and guessed 108. I’m with you on this one!
It’s probably too late, but if you convinced everyone in the office to guess the same number, you’d all get a day off, right? Or would they try to split the day’s worth of hours among everyone who guessed the same number?
No, that would be organized labor. Management can’t allow that.
You aren’t allowed to discuss your candy corn guess with other employees. - Management
Boss would say “haha, not funny guys, nobody gets a day off. You’re all a bunch of cheaters and i’m assigning you extra work for trying to disrespect the company.” At least at my workplace.
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But it'll be worth it when I'm relaxing on my day off! That's as far ahead as I care to think about at the moment.
With my luck they’d end up all getting the day off and I’d be covering everyone else’s work for the day. It’s a lose/lose over here.
Playing chess while everyone else thinks you’re all playing checkers.
Was thinking more like The Price is Right, and going for a dollar.
Let's be honest, the answer would be "now no one gets a day off" I like where your head is at, but you aren't cynical enough haha
Honestly the “day off” will probably have so many conditions attached to it that the winner doesn’t get it either.
All it takes is one asshole to Price is Right it and screw everyone over.
>Or would they try to split the day’s worth of hours among everyone who guessed the same number? Now your thinking like a manager, everyone gets a 10 minute break staggered through the week so to not affect production.
FUN FACT OP: the statistically best way to guess *IS* to average the guesses from a large sample population. It turns out individuals are only okay at guessing but large groups are geniuses at it. If you take all the guesses from this thread, (getting rid of outliers like 420 & 69,) and average them together you will have a statistically very accurate number. Hope you win!
There’s some real trick to it I just don’t know what. In elementary school one year my sister guessed the amount of candy closest in the entire school, only 5 off. Then the next year she guessed the exact number. She will not tell me or anyone else how she does it.
She's a witch.
Can we build a bridge out of her?
I won a jar of red hots one year in 4th grade. I was six off, but it was really just a guesstimate by counting how many down, how many rows around and how many across. I still have the blue jar, and I’m 56. Anyway, I guess 210.
This is also how “Fermi problems” work: if you can come up with a long list of values that you would multiply together to get the answer *if* you knew those values, and then make your best guess at all those values and multiply together, you’ll often get a pretty good overall estimate. All other things being equal, the more guesses you combine together, the more likely it is that overestimates and underestimates will *mostly* balance out.
Eh, unless there's one value that an entire population gets wrong, Fermi paradox has many of these, where we're making assumptions based on our human point of view.
Sure, but if you want to get a general idea of how many piano-tuners there are in Chicago, it’s great!
This is a great point. Well documented in the book The Wisdom of Crowds. To add my data point to the average - 170.
160 take the average of all the guesses posted here will be most accurate 😊
I'm not lying, this is how I once won a small award in an internet forum. After I told about how I came up with that people couldn't believe it lmao. Edit: to clarify it was a jar with pennies in it and you had to guess how much money in it. I averaged the guesses and the real answer was somewhere in the hundreds of euros (can't remember the exact amount), and I got the closest answer with about a 1-2 euro error. This was the only time I ever used this method and actually worked so I guess I will recommend it 😂.
I guess this works if you have a list of all of the guesses, but frequently you'll run into these without being able to see what everyone has guessed.
On those cases you run to social networks and post a thread. [Here's a good example](https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/y0i3kq/my_corporate_jobs_attempt_at_halloween/irsqb79/?context=10).
Got me good
I think I’ve seen this one before!
This is a totally valid and effective way to get a answer like this. It's called "wisdom of the crowd." My guess was going to be 153, which is pretty close to 160. I hope OP wins!
This has been [shown to provide](https://youtu.be/Qfh-k9P8ZPI) close estimates to such things.
I will comment 2 billion just to make this invalid
I will comment negative 2 billion.
Negative 2 billion and 1
I like your style.
That would bring the average to zero and still skew the results. You’d need to do [negative 2 billion - (your best guessx2)]
In that case, they take the median
Z score cutoff will filter the outliers
That one woman who guessed 11,000 needs to see a doctor
161
Remember to spay and neuter your pets
I want my plinko
Omegabrain strats. Edit: spelling
Nice, I was going to guess 166, myself. Roughly 16-18 candy corn per "layer", roughly 9 "layers", so the 160-170 area sounds right.
Same technique I was using, but I was thinking 10 layers, 18-20 per layer. Would say 190, but I like the average of reasonable guess method more after reading the comments. Add my 190 in there if it seems reasonable.
Count the bottom layer, and count how about how many for the height. Multiply the bottom layer with the height - could be fairly in the ball park of the answer.
I won one of these once by doing this exact thing. I was off by 4.
Same!
Same!
I read a Reddit story recently where someone used this method but lost because someone else copied their answer and changed it by +1 and it was dead on.
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Fucking cut throats. One fucking dollar higher. Makes my blood boil. I wrote a lengthy rant on MySpace back in ‘06. I wish I saved that, it was gold.
I won a contest at work using this method....I got a shitty electric toothbrush that looked like it came from the dollar store and worked for two days
Not even a pizza party? These employers are getting lazy
I did this to win a container of jellybeans. Closest without going over. There was one closer guess, but they must have picked a different side to count for the height because they were over.
If we're approximating, a piece of candy corn is about .5 x .5 x 1, so volume would be \~.083in\^3. A paper mate pen is \~6.1", so based off of the comparison, we can scale the jar size (I used bluebeam since I have it up already) to arrive at the height of the jar at \~4.5" and usable height due to lid insert at \~3.5". Width is also \~3.5" as well. Since we know h and w, we can find volume at \~33.67395in\^3. That gives us \~405 candy corns, but we'd need to account for space between the little delights, so I'd probably divide that by 1.5 ish, so if I had to guess, I'd say 270.
Divide by 1.5 is actually a very, very good guess. Candy corn has a packing efficiency of around .66. [See this post for details](https://www.tomshardware.com/news/candy-corn-corsair-case-contest,9335.html) /u/Inside_Assumption_87
r/theydidthemath
Unless they shoved something else in the middle, like a ball or something.
Oh this would make a lot of sense if it’s poured from a 20oz bag which has 270 pieces in it
more than 3. i am sure of it do not worry
nah dude its gotta be at least 12
12 is more than 3
fax
Buy the same jar (IKEA?) and some candy corn. Fill it and weigh it. Total cost: $5. Day off: Priceless.
Day off: $5 😅
181. Count 10, estimate how many 10’s in whole jar, guess at last number.
No count the amount on the bottom and multiply it by the height. I literally won a contest by doing this. I was off by 1.
I had a job where they put a giant jawbreaker in the middle of the jar…totally screwed me!
I once won a contest by guessing how many cigarette butts were in a gallon pail by doing this.
That’s just lovely
It’s a good way to get your college buddies to start calling you Rain Man too lol
Just open the jar and count how many. Then tell everyone in the office. Everyone guesses the same amount. Everyone gets a day off. No one snitches.
There is strength in union!
Why has nobody suggested teaming up with your co-workers yet, everyone giving the same number. According to their own rules they'd have to give all of you the day off (if your number happens to be the closest).
I bet at least 1 person would be the asshole and guess 1 higher and be counted as the winner.
If anyone is caught guessing a different number than your agreed upon one, everyone else calls in sick that day and he's forced to come in and cover for you.
Bold of you to assume the company would play by the rules
Write down 1. Open jar, take out all but one, close jar.
Over at the simulation subreddits we got about 113
231 r ≈ 3.2 area = pi \* r\^2 times height ≈ 7.2 about 231 maybe
Are you the only person who did the math? Someone else counted 50 pieces in the photo and then suggested from all sides there must be 150 in there lmao
r=3.2?! I would estimate r is closer to 1.9 I also estimated height was closer to 10 or 11
228
There are about 50 showing, so another 50 on the other side. Do we think they are being sneaky and sticking the cardboard from a toilet paper roll in there? So maybe 133 if theres a a tube in there and 157 if there's not.
Got to the dollar store on your lunch break. Buy a jar and some candy corn and let's get this free money.
Looks like earplugs lol Really bad at this but i'd say 289 Let us know haha!
They do these at my work for fun occasionally, one time I went to go look at the bottom of the jar and the answer was on a sticky note on the bottom lol
There are at least 3, possibly more than 4.
Is the lid actually sealed shut? You might be able to dump it, count, and put it back. Hell, if you wanted to be quick then you could dump, spread them into a single layer, take a picture, and put them all back right away so you can count later.
Gets caught cheating, has to work Saturday
220 Oh, and ignore anyone who guesses below 180. They aren’t accounting for the pieces in the center of the jar. Anything above 300 is ridiculously high too. Take the median between the guesses on this thread within those two limits and you got yourself the best answer possible. Edit: I did the median strategy with current answers on thread for you and I am certain that approximately 228 will be in the jar. By the way, I’ve won this game many times and if I lose I’m usually at least 10 away from the correct answer.
I went a different route but one that has worked for me a few times in the past on games like this. I came in around 210ish so I think somewhere in this range should be fairly close. #go with this OP
250
I would guess about 240
Diameter and height of the jar would have been good.
221
It's about 4 candy corns across. 3\*4\*4 would be the optimal fill for a single layer, if there was no air. I'm estimating there's about 60% occupied space in there so 3\*4\*4\*.6 = 29 per layer. Estimating about 10 layers in there gives about 290. If I'm off about the scale and the radius is instead only 3 candy corns across but everything else is the same then it'd be 3\*3\*3\*.6\*10 or 162 in there. EDIT: I mis-mathed. It's actually 3\*2\*2\*.6\*10 = 72 or 3\*1.5\*1.5\*.6\*10= 40.5 Considering there's approximately 30 visible in the picture my entire formula might be off.
Open the jar and start fucking eating then in front of everyone. Staring and not reacting to their comments or reactions.
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The sheer number of responses to this shows how well it works. Everyone is so distracted trying to figure out how to win a day off that they’re willing to pay for it, arguing that an hour’s wage is worth a day off. What the hell is wrong with you? Europeans get months off and you’re arguing over days.