Brainteasers can be tricky beasts, as their name suggests. Sometimes the solution seems to be incredibly obvious before you realize you had been on the wrong track all along.
Take a look at this one, and make sure you’re paying close attention.
The correct answer will be revealed below.
Simple, isn’t it?
What’s your answer? 10? Or 1?
If so, we regret to inform you that you are mistaken. Here is the correct answer:
Confused? Well, we can hardly blame you. It’s common for people to simply add up all the 1s, assuming that there’s a + symbol after each digit. But look closer and you will see that there is no + after the two 1s at the end of the second line!
This means that the number 11 is in there twice, it’s merely separated and written across two lines. So that’s why the correct answer is 28!
Do you see where you went wrong previously? Or are you one of the sly geniuses who actually came up with the correct answer the first time? Pass this one along to your friends and see which one of them will crack the code.
