Watch These Children Explain Their Best Trick-or-Treat Candy Strategies

Trick-or-treating is a young person’s sport and kids have the best tricks.

The curious folks at Lifehacker sat down with some genius kids who unloaded their best trick-or-treating tactics. Find old people. Switch costumes after doing a lap at the best neighborhood. Take all the candy from bowls that get left out on front porches. Hell, one crafty kid who respects time management more than superfluous trick-or-treating experiences says he just buys bags of candy — it’s not much more expensive, he gets what he wants and he can do it in minutes.

Thank you middle school kids, I’ve learned a great deal from you today:

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