by CoffeeBean » Tue Sep 01, 2020 3:15 pm
Is the worst cookie relevant? Maybe, but certainly... The best one? ...THIS one is.
One better than average? Worse than average? Yes to both Is the maneuver a swapping of cookies? YES A distraction? This is sometimes involved, yes Does a child become distraught when another person has a better cookie? YES Has the best cookie? Yes, many times they think this is the case Can two people experience a glibbanaught from the same cookie distribution? Yes, very possible
Can both maneuver to rectify it? Possibly, sure If they do, will they come in conflict? Almost certainly, if the number of people and cookies is small enough
Can a glibbanaught be caused by someone deciding whom gets each cookie? No, but this is what leads to the glibbanaught in many cases
By people picking one by one from a set of cookies? It can happen here too
The main idea of the glibbanaught has been explained...
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A "glibbanaught" is the realization that chocolate chip cookies have been given to you and others, and someone else has a cookie(s) with more chips in it than the one you have been given. When one experiences a glibbanaught, he or she may perform the subtle maneuver of swapping cookies so that now they have the best one, or if others are present they may be helpless to perform a cookie swap for fear of being caught. When the one who has the glibbanaught realizes he or she cannot change the situation, they may become irrational and inconsolable.
People of all ages can experience a glibbanaught. Children will usually become upset if they are stuck with the lesser cookie unless they are skilled at swapping cookies without being noticed. Adults may laugh at their glibbanaught and not do anything, but there are some who will swap cookies so they have the ones with the most chips.
The back-door clue in the puzzle title "Inverted Chevrons" refers to a term that some use for the less than and greater than signs (< and >), which are sideways or "inverted" chevrons.