How many balls can you see in the picture?

We all love riddles and training our brains, and it’s a good choice. Are you ready to wake up and face this puzzle?

Here comes the challenge. It’s not proper math, but I remember our geometry teacher gave us a similar problem back in school. This may seem easy at first but you will quickly realize it is not as easy as it looks.

Below is a picture – and the question is: how many balls are in it?

How many did you find? The answer will be below the next picture.

The answer is revealed below but don’t cheat by peeking!

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There are a lot of balls
It is important to think a little outside the box to figure this one out.

The correct answer is 30 balls!

First, discern between visible balls, and balls making up that pile.

Visible: 16, that’s rather easy.

Full pile: we have a 4×4 bottom layer, then 3×3, 2×2, 1×1.

16 + 9 + 4 + 1 = 30 in my book.

Anyone disagrees?

Did you get the correct answer? Congratulations to you if that’s the case, you are sharp!