I love this picture! I think it brilliantly illustrates an important creative skill testers need: the ability to see beyond and challenge existing rules.
... And it got me thinking; what other ways can I think of that would/could fool a genie. Here's a quick list, I would love to hear your creative solutions as well:
- Wish for the ability to grant wishes
- Wish for every lamp you touch to contain a genie
- Wish that the genie will keep forgetting that it has already granted you a wish
- Wish that the genie stopped having/followed rules (seems dangerous though!)
- Wish that no wish you make counts towards the limit
- Wish there would pop out a different genie every time you rubbed the lamp
- Find out a way to express all your wishes as one wish
- Wish there was a much higher limit than 3
- Wish that 3 changed meaning to unlimited (consequences once again)
- Wish "I want to change into a new but identical person" as your third and final wish
- Wish the genie inscrutiating pain whenever he decides to decline you a wish.
- Wish... now it's your turn!