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Vanishing Egg

Who stole the egg from Chiquita our favourite chicken? As you can see on the 4-piece puzzle in A, there are 8 eggs... Now if we permute the triangular pieces an egg Dissapears along with portion of the puzzle (see B)!

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

the 'permutation' would seem also to make each of the eggs slightly bigger - is this how it steals one? Very interesting though!!

Anonymous said...

It seems to be no mistake that the lower edge of the puzzle is not perfectly straight. The base of the smaller triangle piece appears to angle upwards from left to right. When replaced from the left side to the right side of the puzzle, it looks as if it changes the lower edge of the puzzle, extending it down just a little bit, and therefore creating a larger puzzle area. Since the new area doesn't actually exist, the hole appears. Does anyone else think this may be the case? It's hard to tell just by looking at the pic, but that bottom edge does not look square.

Anonymous said...

I believe that although the second diagram is slightly skewed, and appears a bit bigger, that the egg has disappeared under a triangular flap that has been folded over, and has created a diamond shaped hole. I feel that the missing egg is hidden under the folded flap.

Foez M Rahim said...

Its a very easy trick guys.... if u see the upper diagram u will see that all the eggs are not complete eggs, means that the shape of the eggs are not full, cut offs are there, thats is from every egg some part are omitted..... In the second diagrams all the cutoffs combines together to vanish an egg.... i.e. all the cutoffs are equal to an egg, or all the omitted parts equal to an egg.


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Anonymous said...

in B, the eggs are not exactly like eggs they all are deformed. i guessed if all pieces are joined together the misplaced egg can be recovered. i am not sure. if any one know the answer please put here. i feel irritated a si can not figure out the logic

Anonymous said...

I agree with Foez. If you take a good look at it, you'll see. The amount of egg missing from seven eggs in picture A can be put together to form an eighth egg with the same amount missing as each of the others.

-"Ghost", 8th grade

Anonymous said...

just look at this...
the top and bottom parts covers only 7 eggs...

the upper part... 3rd from the left
and the lower part... 3rd from the right...

the largest triangle took an egg in it cut out shape.
so if you put the large triangle in the left side. there will be only seven eggs. because there will be no one to replace it.

Anonymous said...

i dont understand the trick here. they took a egg piece out? big whoop. whats the illusion?

Anonymous said...

its SO OBVIOUS!!!
k, look at the bottom of the 3rd egg in a. there is no bottom!
now look at the top of egg 6. No top, right?

If you still don't understand, look at it this way. count how many tops there are in a.7.do the same for the bottoms in a.7. they just rearranged the blocks.

if you still don't understand, sorry, I'm not a genius.

Brooke <3 said...

Ok, I think that the anonymous b4 me is right bc the pictures are really the same.. They both have seven eggs u think that a has 8 right? no count the tops and bottom only seven bc the third is missing bottom and sixth is missing top like he said!! now count b eggs same ammount.. 7 so there really is no missing egg O.o its just if u put the top and bottom on then it would tak away the eigth egg bc there is none if there was no top and bottom sry i keep repeating its just i keep trying to make myself understand so i have to repeat... there i go again -_- -Brooke

phoenixx1965 said...

Don't be fooled! This isn't an easy one. It is obviously deceiving us through distortion and following illusion caused by the rhomboid angular shape of the fields compared to the frame of the picture itself and the horizontal line of the eggs. This way it makes it impossible for our brain to put the pieces together properly. And yes, it is so distorted that the "logic" of our brain ends up leaving not even an egg "missing", but even a piece of the puzzle altogether.

Anonymous said...

Its easy.

In the upper pic there are two "half" eggs.

In the lower pic these are gone together as one egg.

So if you only count the egg pieces, and think that only two pieces are one whole egg. There are in both pics only 7 eggs.

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