Originally published at: How many 9s can you find in a sea of 8s? | Boing Boing
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According to the article, the answer is ‘3’. However if you include the 9 in white below, there are 4. I guess it depends on the instructions, which I can’t read…
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This post should be tagged #adventuresinpedantry I believe this used be an official bb category back in the day.
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I do like brain teasers and even puzzles where the pedantic phrasing of the question must be followed to find the solution. But this one just might have a bad translation as the purported answer doesn’t match the question.
Specifically, “How many 9s can you find in a sea of 8s?” The answer is 3.
A similar question might be “How many 9s can you find in the image containing a sea of 8s?” The answer to that would be 4.
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I call BS
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Instructions matter, I suppose.
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I count seven. One in the headline, one in the article, four in the image, and one in the date under the image.
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It should be 3. The 9 at the bottom is the instructions. Otherwise it would be like a vaudeville bit.
“OK, you take this horn, and when I say ‘go’, you blow it.”
honk!
“What was that for?”
“You said ‘go’, so I honked the horn.”
“No no, you wait for me to say, ‘go’, then you honk the horn!”
honk!
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Saying 4 is just trolling.
Was it supposed to be hard? It wasn’t…
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But twitter says
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“Let me answer that.”
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