{"id":101608,"date":"2020-01-30T05:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T13:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/we-spent-all-day-arguing-about-this-triangle-brain-teaser-can-you-solve-it"},"modified":"2020-01-30T05:22:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T13:22:53","slug":"we-spent-all-day-arguing-about-this-triangle-brain-teaser-can-you-solve-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/we-spent-all-day-arguing-about-this-triangle-brain-teaser-can-you-solve-it","title":{"rendered":"We Spent All Day Arguing About This Triangle Brain Teaser. Can You Solve It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-spent-all-day-arguing-about-this-triangle-brain-teaser-can-you-solve-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing quite like a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/math\/a28569610\/viral-math-problem-2019-solved\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/math\/a28569610\/viral-math-problem-2019-solved\/\">maddening math problem<\/a>, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a28763960\/rabbit-raven-optical-illusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a28763960\/rabbit-raven-optical-illusion\/\">mind-bending optical illusion<\/a>, or <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/riddles-logic-puzzles\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/riddles-logic-puzzles\/\">twisty logic puzzle<\/a> to halt all productivity in the <em>Popular Mechanics <\/em>office. We\u2019re curious people by nature, but we also collectively share a stubborn insistence that we\u2019re <em>right, dammit<\/em>, and so we tend to throw work by the wayside whenever we come upon a problem with several seemingly possible solutions.<\/p>\n<p>This triangle brain teaser isn\u2019t new\u2014shoutout to <em>Popsugar <\/em>for <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/news\/Triangle-Brain-Teaser-44732773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/news\/Triangle-Brain-Teaser-44732773\">unearthing it<\/a> a couple years ago\u2014but based on some shady Internet magic, the tweet below reappeared in my feed today and kick-started a new debate on our staff-wide Slack channel, a place traditionally reserved for workshopping ideas, but instead mostly used for yelling about other stuff that we occasionally turn into content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s nothing quite like a maddening math problem, mind-bending optical illusion, or twisty logic puzzle to halt all productivity in the Popular Mechanics office. We\u2019re curious people by nature, but we also collectively share a stubborn insistence that we\u2019re right, dammit, and so we tend to throw work by the wayside whenever we come upon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2229,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}