One of the funniest places to find infotainment is online. Social media is full of interesting stuff, oddball memes, and educational posts from vloggers and influencers. You won’t be disappointed. Among all of them, challenging brainteaser problems are currently quite well-liked. Since students must use logic and reasoning to solve the puzzle, these challenges put the readers’ critical thinking abilities to the test. So, the fundamental idea behind a brainteaser is to look at an image and provide a complex response based on it. A very intriguing brainteaser is now trending on social media.
In this problem, participants are asked to estimate an individual’s age from the given information. The text says, “My sister was twice my age when I was two.” How old is my sister now that I’m forty?
Even though it sounds simple, several people have responded to the difficult question in the comments area. Users varied in their replies to the computations they dropped. One person commented, “42 na, unless she’s also aging twice as fast, then she’d be 80 now,” while another contributed a complex calculation, saying, “The two siblings’ age differences are 4 – 2 = 2 years.” The individual is now 42 years old (2 + 40). That would make their sister 44 years old (4 + 40). My age is forty-four.
“Your sister was double your age at two, or four. exactly two years older. She is 42 if you are 40. Easy,” said another.
Along with their educated estimates, several people responded to the brainteaser with amusing remarks. “No stress my brain abeg,” one person said, and “I swear I’m not stressing my brain,” said another. One user commented, “Brain teaser. Me wey never chop.”
The post, which was shared on Cocomellon’s X account, has received hundreds of likes, retweets, and comments in addition to over 200,000 views.
In the meanwhile, there are countless brainteasers available online that frequently grab people’s interest. Another one tests users’ ability to identify a mistake in a photo in under five seconds. The puzzle also suggests that it is easier to identify errors when you are more composed.
The picture shows the letters from A to Z along with the instruction to find the mistake. Are you able to succeed?