Math Nerds Unite in Wholesome Quest to Help Redditor Win Day off From Work

Our corporate overlords are forever coming up with clever methods to demean us, pitting employees against each other for a crumb of preferential treatment. Nonetheless, when the boss slams a jar full of candy corn on the table and says "count the candy, peasants," you know for a fact that we're all going to play that dumb guessing game for the chance of one paid day off work. Redditor u/Inside_Assumption_87 took it to the next level by crowdsourcing their guess on r/antiwork, and Redditors did not let OP down.

Posted by Mel Dawn

“My corporate jobs attempt at Halloween festivities. job is offering a full paid day off for anyone that can guess closest to the number of candy in the jar. I hate work as much as you, so help me out with a good guess” Posted by u/Inside_Assumption_87

The comment section

Redditors came together to offer plenty of good advice, and some pretty legit-seeming math. One mad lad even simulated a 3D model of the jar based on OP's photo and counted the virtual candy corn pieces.

“Bro I hope someone was doing this simulation on company time. Haha” said u/BillyWilly006900.

“The idea of compute time on a super computer cluster being used to calculate the number of candy corns in a jar to win an anonymous guy on the internet an office competition amuses me more than it should” said u/SurroundWise6889.

“Better yet, buy a jar and candy corn and swap it out after counting the exact amount in your jar.” said u/madaman13.

“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.” said u/blendedfarley.

“You just need two swaps. Swap the real one with your decoy, count the candy in it, then swap it back.” said u/Quinscuit.

“Galaxy brain here” said u/Motor_Raspberry_2150.

“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..” said u/mysticalfruit.

“Dude just did a computer simulation of this and came to 113. Great math!!” said u/Boltsnouns, referencing u/pke1029's model of the candy jar.

“No, that would be organized labor. Management can’t allow that.” said u/Secondary123098.

“You aren’t allowed to discuss your candy corn guess with other employees. - Management” said u/DanEricsson.

“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…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” said u/Emitex.

“This is a totally valid and effective way to get a answer like this. It's called ‘wisdom of the crowd.’” said u/Comprehensive-Fun47.