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I’d like to ask the good people of this community that, if you do know the solution or figure it out, that you not share the answer here. Feel free to announce your success, but there’s something to be said for discovering the answer completely unaided, even if it takes years.
It’s embarrassingly obvious once you see it though.
Well, I got it correct with a guess based on a casual glance at what was there, not how the numbers actually relate or calculations based on rules or patterns.
Then I had to figure out how it actually worked.
Which was harder -- I wish I had kept scrolling.
Wow, I just woke up and saved this to have a nice puzzle to work on for a while but I figured it out in like a minute... Kinda disappointed that happened to be honest.
Oh i see,
Its
solution
12
You add up the digits.
(7+2)+(9+9)=9+18=27
9+(4+5)=9+9=18
(1+8)+(3+9)=9+12=21
(2+1)+(3+6)=3+9=12
3+(2+8)=3+10=13
(1+3)+(2+1)=4+3=7
Yay
I figured it out in about 3 minutes. I think I'm autistic or something
Took me 30 seconds. Autistic as f.
Fun puzzle - thanks for sharing!
I let AI solve it for me now I feel confident that I'm much dumber than an AI.
The LLMs most probably already have this puzzle in their dataset or can look it up on the internet. That's like asking you if you know how to solve it only after you have seen the solution
In all fairness, this seems like an ideal problem for a model to solve.
That's a thing to boast about, for sure. We are proud of you, buddy! cough
Thanks Dad
Ahaha that's so cheeky!
I can give one hint if you want.
The solution reminded me of "Numerology". Which I am familiar with and probably why I was able to solve it in about a minute.
Took me about 20 minutes. There's a rule you find first that would work if the 7 was an 8. But it isn't. So there's another rule.
until I read your comment I was puzzled as to why anyone would consider something so dumb a "masterpiece", but yeah, it's quite a clever piece of misleading on the puzzle-setter's part.
Damn haha
I still keep thinking it's 15, which I know is wrong, and then I math in 14,but I can't figure out a function. Does someone want to dm me or spoiler me the function how it works? My brain is too full of more important stuff and I cannot make room for this. But I must know!
Someone else commented it the pattern. The answer is not 14 or 15.
Hint
There is no function. You won't find the answer by trying different combinations math operations on the values. You need to think more outside the box.
Hint #2
Ignore the values.
Hint #3
Focus on just three numbers. How can 13 and 21 produce 7?
I think I got it
Wait was I two or three off?
spoiler
Yup!
Thank you so very much!!!
Oooh, sneaky but simple
The number of comments in this thread where people confidently declare they solved it with the wrong answer is absolutely baffling. Especially since it literally calls out the exception to that 'solution' in the post itself. Did those people not even look at the 7? That's the real strength of this puzzle, making idiots who think they're geniuses loudly prove their stupidity.
Being real, if this post hadn't made it clear that the solution was non obvious, I likely would have given up before getting it, just because my chicken is being more interesting than usual.
But, knowing that there was a "trick" to it, meaning that it takes some lateral thinking, I didn't take my usual approach to number puzzles, which means it only took one look at the upper left for the likely solution to be visible. Then it was just running down and testing with the rest, then plugging in for the solution.
No way in hell I would have had the patience for it when my baby bird is being a silly dinosaur without that front loading assumption the solution wouldn't be evident with a systematic approach. Oh, I'd have given it maybe fifteen minutes, but with a fuzzy butt in play, that would have been it
you what? lol
No, I who. dehumanization no good
What? You've never been distracted by a chicken before?
Fun puzzle