Have you ever seen such a simple image that made your head spin? Here’s one! A seemingly innocent and simple image is circulating on social media: it shows a carton of six eggs and the text that says:
🤯 And indeed! Most users are answering incorrectly without thinking. Some say there are 0 eggs left, others 4, others 2… but what is the correct answer?
🧩 Let’s break down the puzzle step by step:
We start with 6 eggs.
Let’s see what happens with each action:
1️⃣ “I broke 2”
👉 This doesn’t mean they’ve disappeared or ceased to exist. They’ve just been broken, which is necessary to cook them.
📝 We still have six eggs left, but two are already broken.
2️⃣ I fried two
👉 of the ones you cracked, and you probably fried the same two. It doesn’t specify that they are different eggs.
📌 Here’s the trick: cracking, frying, and eating can all refer to the same two eggs.
3️⃣ “I ate 2”
👉 Again, we can assume that the same 2 were cracked and fried.
So if only 2 eggs were used for the 3 actions (cracking, frying, eating), you have:
➡️ 4 whole eggs, unused, unbroken, unfried, and uneaten.
🎯 So… what’s the correct answer?
