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09-07-2016, 03:43 PM
This tougher-than-it-looks math puzzle is baffling the entire internet
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LONDON — A math puzzle that contains pictures of horses, horseshoes and riding boots and involves a quick bit of algebra should be pretty simple to solve, right?
Well, maybe **t.
SEE ALSO: Finding the panda in this cartoonist's puzzle is much harder than you'd expect (http://mashable.com/2015/12/22/find-the-panda-puzzle-dudolf/)
After being shared on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205775670504946&set=a.3886338930910.126365.1652018492&type=3) and attracting well over half a million comments, the following problem has been spreading further and further across social media in recent weeks. On Tuesday, Twitter created a whole moment (https://twitter.com/i/moments/773366336915333120) to capture the frantic buzz it's generating.
As the puzzle spread and people began commenting with their answers, it quickly became clear that the problem wasn't as simple as it looked. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/07/horse-algebra-puzzle/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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LONDON — A math puzzle that contains pictures of horses, horseshoes and riding boots and involves a quick bit of algebra should be pretty simple to solve, right?
Well, maybe **t.
SEE ALSO: Finding the panda in this cartoonist's puzzle is much harder than you'd expect (http://mashable.com/2015/12/22/find-the-panda-puzzle-dudolf/)
After being shared on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205775670504946&set=a.3886338930910.126365.1652018492&type=3) and attracting well over half a million comments, the following problem has been spreading further and further across social media in recent weeks. On Tuesday, Twitter created a whole moment (https://twitter.com/i/moments/773366336915333120) to capture the frantic buzz it's generating.
As the puzzle spread and people began commenting with their answers, it quickly became clear that the problem wasn't as simple as it looked. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/07/horse-algebra-puzzle/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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