Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Kominers’s Conundrums: A Fly Walks Into a Debate

A clumsy bit of moderating creates a tense situation. Can you figure out what happened next?

October 11, 2020 at 12:00 PM UTC

Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard University department of economics.

A clumsy bit of moderating creates a tense situation. Can you figure out what happened next?
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This week’s Conundrum -- a version of a classic brainteaser that I pulled together with the help of game theorist Shengwu Li -- concerns a strange occurrence at a vice presidential debate. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental.

And there’s one more follow-up question for our most dedicated solvers: