A Girl Scout cookie is one of several varieties of cookie sold on neighborhood tours by Girl Scouts as a fundraiser for their organization. Girl Scouts sell to their own relatives and walk across the neighborhood and town to visit people's houses, taking orders for number of boxes of each cookie type (Thin Mints, Samoa, etc.) desired by each house and the amount the total order of each customer will cost on a paper chart. As an incentive to sell, Scouts are offered prizes (stuffed animals, trinkets, coupons, etc.) of successively higher value for the number of boxes they sell. The accumulation of prizes is cumulative, so that a girl who has won the prize for selling 100 boxes of cookies will still also get the 75-box prize, the 50-box prize, the 25-box prize, the 20-box prize, the 15-box prize and the 10-box prize.
