# Do you take one box or two boxes?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 11, 2026, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-one-box-or-two-boxes/1028360 "2026-03-11T05:59:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-take-one-box-or-two-boxes/1028360/266 "2026-03-13T22:16:11Z")

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I see we’ve done this before

> [@Are you a One-Boxer or a Two-Boxer?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-one-boxer-or-a-two-boxer/666287):
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> I’m bored of Monty Hall and .999… = 1. They’ve been beaten to death. Instead I want to open another [del]horrific flame war[/del] calm, logical discussion on logical conundrums. And this one doesn’t even really have a wrong answer (unless you disagree with me :p)! Let’s talk about Newcomb’s Paradox: You are invited to participate in a strange game show. The game show is run by an enigmatic entity known as The Predictor. The Predictor, as his name suggests, predicts the action you will take duri…

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