Lateral puzzles are puzzles that challenge your thinking and help you develop skills in questioning, deduction and logic. Lateral puzzles do not have one correct answer, but there is an answer provided in the book. Your job is to think as many possible solutions that explain the question. When we use lateral puzzles in small groups, you can ask questions, but since you cannot ask a question and have an immediate response on the blog, I will post the clues as well. ASK QUESTIONS on the blog or OFFER POSSIBLE SUGGESTIONS. REMEMBER THAT THESE PUZZLES SHOULD CHALLENGE YOUR THINKING!
A man wrote to a toothpaste company suggesting a way in which they could significantly increase their sales. How?
CLUES:
(1) The toothpaste company adopted his idea and their sales increased.
(2) It had nothing to do with the taste, price, or distribution of the toothpaste.
(3) The idea encouraged people to use more toothpaste.
9 comments:
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Did they use an add on t.v. or in the newspaper??? Ms. A you have some hard puzzles!!!
SPN3H
they actually used the toothpaste bottle. think about ways to manipulate the bottles.
Ms. A. :)
maybe...a machine used to mulitiple them????
spn3h
This is a hard one, Ms. A, but I'll take a guess!
Did he recommend that they make the outlet hole larger, thereby making people use more toothpaste per squeeze? =)
Mr. Cooper
They made the hole it comes out of bigger or had 2 of them so people used more toothpaste and ran out faster. Thay bought more and the company got more money
I am awesome,
BBL
Maybe inside of the bottle was less toothpaste than it should have been. So they ran to the store and bought more perhaps...
i think that my blog name will be kristofferson as in the actor/director kris kristofferson
Mr. Cooper and BBL are both correct! Good job!
Ms. A. :)
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