---
title: "TDD brain teaser - hope I won"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/7/tdd-brain-teaser-hope-i-won.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/7/tdd-brain-teaser-hope-i-won.html"
published: "2004-10-07T00:47:00"
updated: "2004-10-07T00:47:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations", "Agile Related"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Update : Yep - I won :) I always wanted a keychain light thingy gizmo. Thanks Jonathan!! Gosh, I hope I got the answer to this TDD brain teaser from Jonathan Cogley right. What do you think? Got a better answer? Great…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# TDD brain teaser - hope I won

By Roy Osherove October 7, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations), [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 7, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

_**Update**: Yep - I won :) I always wanted a keychain light thingy gizmo. Thanks Jonathan!!_

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Gosh, I hope I got the answer to [this TDD brain teaser](http://weblogs.asp.net/jcogley/archive/2004/10/06/238986.aspx)  from [Jonathan Cogley](http://weblogs.asp.net/jcogley) right. What do you think? Got a better answer?

Great idea Jonathan. I'd love to see more of these teasers.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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