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Social media can be a pretty amazing place when people are not busy cracking jokes and creating memes and trolling others. More often not people share some mind blogging puzzles and soon others jump in to participate. Recently, popular fashion magazine editor Jitesh Pillai shared a puzzle on Twitter and asked people for an answer. However, it was no Bollywood gossip or showbiz industry’s hush-hush affair — it was nothing but a simple math problem. Yes, going a little off track from the glamour world, he asked people to figure out how many triangles are there in a given diagram.
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Pillai, who goes by only ‘J’ on the micro-blogging site posted the challenge up on Twitter. Although, we are not sure if he knew the answer himself or not, but it did start a huge guessing game amid the film fraternity and fans.
The tweet soon created a buzz online with even celebrities like Sonam Kapoor, Aditi Rao Hydari and Diana Penty jumped to solve the puzzle. While Kapoor guessed it as seven, supporting her answer with “Terrible at math”, Hydari wrote, “9? … math is dabba! ”
Penty and Karan Grover, on the other hand, were the only two celebs – at the time of writing – who had got the answer right.
Soon Tweeple too jumped in with their answers and it ranged from seven to 24, and it led to a funny affair.
https://twitter.com/WhereIsRohan007/status/983313454667829249
https://twitter.com/Ioveonthabrain/status/983308849598771202
https://twitter.com/commedesjaicon/status/983310784083226624
But did you manage to figure out HOW they got to the answer? Well, if you want to solve the puzzle yourself first then, don’t read further. Because after a lot of one-word answers and jokes, the puzzle was decoded when two users used diagrams to explain the right answer — 18.
https://twitter.com/Iam_Ineffable/status/983296388921360384
https://twitter.com/onlyproudindian/status/983304957263740928
Did you guess it correctly all by yourself? Tell us in comments below.
