'If I had 4 eggs': Here's the answer to baffling riddle that is going viral

Riddles are a fun way to pass time as it involves reading in between lines and understanding wordplay. Getting to solve puzzles, brain teasers and riddles online is one of many things that one can indulge in and spend ir time with some productivity. While se puzzles help one develop critical and analytical skills, y are also fun to solve.

Even when a person is t actively searching for riddles, y are very hard to dodge as y are present on all social media platforms. A person often stumbles upon riddles eir on WhatsApp or riddles can be spotted online on social media platforms like Facebook. Sometimes se viral riddles may be hard to answer, but y can be both engaging and enjoyable. And since y are often challenging, people tend to spend time on m until y get answer.

Riddles can also be a great way of training one's mind to think outside box. re is a new riddle that is doing rounds on social media. Here is answer to it.

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'If I had 4 eggs' riddle

If I had 4 eggs

and a thief gave me 3

and my rooster laid 5 more

How many do I have?

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'If I had 4 eggs' riddle answer

• Answer: 3 eggs only

Solution

riddle seems like a math problem and has left many people baffled. While common answer to this has been guessed as 7, 4 and 1, correct answer to riddle is 3 eggs. trick to solving this riddle is to understand that it is t a math problem but simple use of wordplay that confuses people.  riddle confuses people because of way it is written.

• This is a tricky riddle and has a lot of wordplay involved. first line is a hypotical situation. So it means that total number of eggs is zero, to begin with.
• In second line, a thief gives 3 eggs, making total count 3.
• third line reads, a rooster lays eggs, which is an impossible thins as roosters don't lay eggs, which means zero eggs collected from roosters.
• So, 0+3+0 = 3

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