The classic β6-egg riddleβ goes like this:
You have 6 eggs.
You break 2, fry 2, and eat 2.
How many eggs do you have left?
π§ The trick
At first it sounds like you used up 6 eggs⦠but look carefully:
- The same 2 eggs are broken, then fried, then eaten
π So you only used 2 eggs total
β Answer
You started with 6 eggs
You used 2 eggs
You have 4 eggs left π₯π₯π₯π₯
π‘ These riddles are all about wordplay and assumptions, not math alone.
If you want, I can give you more tricky riddles like this that really test your thinking π