[wredcoll]

I appreciate the deep dive into the depths of number theory and strange graphs, but what is supposed to be tricky/confusing about the original apple/banana/etc puzzle?

Is there supposed to be some easily confused bit so people argue or just be easy so everyone rushes to show off?

(I got 10, 4, 2; maybe it confused me?)

[helpful-guy]

The “trick” is that there are only three bananas in the last bunch and four in the others. Likewise there is a single coconut in the last equation. It appears this could be interpreted as 1 + 10 + 3.

[kevin_thibedeau]

That's actually half a coconut. The smaller one is ambiguous. Is it supposed to be another half or a quarter?

[wredcoll]

Ohhh. I even looked for stuff like that and didn't notice it. Brains are weird, man.