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02nd Nov 2016

Only 36% of people have cracked this infuriating ‘car in the box’ brainteaser

Why is this so damn hard to get your head round?

Ben Kenyon

You’ll kick yourself when you find the right answer.

But this ‘car in the box’ viral brainteaser is tearing the internet apart.

We’re a smart bunch though, right? How hard could it be?

Amazingly only 36 per cent of people have manage to guess the right answer out of a choice of three answers….so it looks like there’s a lot of wayward guessing going on.

The task is pretty simple. All you have to do is work out correctly which of the three boxes contains the car. Your answer will be guided by figuring out which of the three statements is right.

Remember though: If you’ve picked the right answer, only one of the statements will be true.

It’s a test of the logic of your mind and it was created by the evil genius Puzzlefizzy on the website Brilliant.org.

Get your thinking caps on boys…

the baffling puzzle

 

Have you torn your hair out and smashed up your computer in torment yet? Want us to put you out of your misery?

Basically by a process of elimination you’ll find that the car is in Box Two. Why? Well…

The car isn’t in box one, because otherwise statements one and two would be correct.

So, the car also can’t be in box three as that would mean statements two and three would be right.

That just leaves box two, because the statement on box three is the only one correct.

If you’re still baffled, watch this…

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