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¿Question #803?
EndersGame: If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

oldhoss: Everyone wins.
ocdspectrum: Both. And basically you failed.
pekin2121: Mind blown...
IriDiuM84: Both
Svengaard: Created a paradox that will destroy us all!
Woelf: Wasted your life.
aleo09: succeeded at failure. win win.
oriecat: Whoooooooaaaa. That fucking hurts my brain.
vandemonium: I will choose free will. Seemed appropriate.
Caerid: It.
TiwazTyrsfist: Both and Neither. Also, you've done Zen.
Varduk: Failed
jgoyes: Fail
zombiegod: Succeeded in failing
Spirit of 70: You've succeeded at what you were actually trying to do.
kathleenryan: succeeded to fail.
Felimid: Become a trial lawyer, of course.
daveroswell: You did something, AND found out a way how not to do it. That is success...that is learning.
dirubin: Yes.
SirEvelyn: You've succeeded at failing.
sludgemariner: If you try, and achieve your goal, then by definition you haven't failed.
Numskull: Both.
Phil Fleischmann: What you had to do. What you always do.
Geekymike: you have succeeded in failing
Lardarse: Bugger all, I'm guessing...
ejohnson7: Shaved yourself.
POvidiusNaso: Succeeded.
jillz: Got lucky
DHEK: You have succeeded in your goal of failing.
White Stone: You succeeded at failing.
Elf__Man: succeeded at failure
kelmit: failed successfully
kuchick: failed...wait! succeeded.. what would the door next to the door in Labyrinth say?
tdyck: failed, because a negative and a positive make a negative. Failing to fail is a double negative, and therefor you succeed.
purvisa: Both
dmomo: Wow. Deep.
greglios: Succeeded in failing.
dkwd: stolen Steven Wright's jokes
MaksimSmelchak: It sounds like you won a game for a change. Just enjoy the victory and don't think so hard about it.
Munchkin_Micih: Failed, man!
W Eric Martin: You have failed.
SisyphusX: You succeeded. Motives are not important.
chitshappen: You have succeeded...at failure. And hey, that's something.
kozmo: sucked
brainrob: Failed miserably
John3: succeeded
ststrat: neither
SkyBry: Broken even. In an ironic manner.
WatchmanX2000: manipulated
MitchellW: You have failed indeed.
LemonyFresh: both
Kazin: You've actually failed.
Unitbuster: If you try to fail and succeed in your attempt to fail, then you have successfully failed. Boo-ya!
Loquutus: Succeeded in failing, no wait, failed to suceed? ARGH!!
scriptorum: Given yourself material to write your memoir.
GI Joe: You have succeeded at failing.
EDS Teioh: my brain hurts....um....succeeded?
Culvan: Probably both. You have tried to fail at some task X. You failed at X, and succeeded at failing.
Mikebegeta: failed
sourwyrm: wouldn't fail be the object at which you suceed, therefore failing?
Dementomstie: The question is what are your trying to fail at? If you try to fail at math and succeed at failing in history you've succeeded in failing but failed to succeed in the failing that you wanted to succeed in.
Lord_Prussian: failed
Rukasu: Failed.
Aerjen: I've failed at succeeding to fail
shotokanguy: You have succeeded.
skrutsch: I guess you failed which means you succeeded at failing which means you failed at failing which means you succeeded, etc.
GrendelPGill: que. too many meanings need more info to compute
Sceadeau: Probably made a mess.
xlorp: Created a paradox. Please wait for the Temporal Police to retrieve your brain so it can't happen again.
Sparta: Succeeded
erli: Made an ass of myself
GornTC: You have succeded in failing.
fizzix: Wasted time & energy. You can fail without trying.
snoozefest: both at both
nexttothemoon: Failed.
Asmoridin: Came up with this question.
MisterCranky: I have probably avoided the draft.
Longbow: Failed. Success is acheiving your goals. You loser.
puffinge: succeeded at failing
kimapesan: Worse - if you try to fail, and fail, does that rip a hole in the space-time continuum?
TakeMeToYourLizard: Confused the hell out of everyone
gnomehome: The lesson is, never try.
DenverWolf: failed
EndersGame: "There is nothing that fails like success." -G.K. Chesterton
redhuntingcap: you've probably just become the president
jim.brooks10: succeeded at failing
Debate: failed
2amp: not met full potential
AlorielLelyn: Both
kennyb: if you have succeeded at failing, then you have suceeded but if you have succeded while trying to fail, then you have failed
UhhhClem: Because the first word of this answer is "although," it is false.
onky: Succeeed
Grimwold: you have succeeded in failing the task you set out to fail at... so you've failed the task, but succeded in what you set out to do. clear?
shippert: Splunge
Blackwind: you've succeeded failing!
CDRodeffer: Nonsense
isolated: You have achieved your goal.
djlg: You've successfully failed. What's the problem. I don't even need the barber to shave me.
geberus: Failed in failure, you are truly lost
sdownin: Screwed up
netfilterz: there is no try, do or do not...
djflippy: You've lowered the bar.
louiseh: Both. Congratulations.
Ludocrazy: You've failed, because you meant to fail and didn't.
Flyspeck23: Fail.
BobDodgerBlue: Succeeded
Shakar: I failed in my attempt to fail.
chaddyboy_2000: Both.
ValJor: Hey Enders! Drop down that book of fallacies and paradoxes, will you?
shumyum: Do THIS!
CortexBomb: Failed at whatever you were trying to fail at, and succeeded at failing to succeed at that
jttm: Succeeded in failing
tragicpoet: You can succeed at failing, as long as the failure is your goal.
skelebone: The lesson is, never try.
ynnen: Everything and nothing. Thus is the nature of the Tao.
Mike A: Yes.