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Two New Math Problems Driving The Internet World Insane.

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Notice that at first glance, It’s quite easy to tell that the odd one out is the green square being the only green while some answers went from the smallest square on the right to the red square with no border.

Sadly, if your choice happened to be any of them, you got it all wrong.

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According to The Guardian, it’s the ‘leftmost square.’

‘By a process of elimination we realize that the odd one out is the leftmost figure because it is the only one that is not an odd one out! The leftmost figure is special because it is not special. It shares redness, squareness, size and border with other shapes,’ writer Alex Bellos explained.

Really now? Talking about ‘mind boggling’ problems.

Tanya Khovanova, the person who devised the problem points out that ‘odd-one-out puzzles penalize creative thinking and that makes them self-defeating since the point of a puzzle is to encourage creative thinking.’

Continue reading next page for the 2nd problem…

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