{"id":995,"date":"2026-05-03T23:43:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:43:51","slug":"how-to-solve-this-puzzle-step-by-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"How to Solve This Puzzle (Step-by-Step)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At first, this looks very easy\u2014but many people get it wrong because they don\u2019t count everything carefully. The trick is to go step by step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 1: Count the biggest circle<\/strong><br>There is <strong>1 large outer circle<\/strong> that surrounds everything.<br>Total so far: <strong>1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2: Count the medium circles inside<\/strong><br>Inside the big circle, there are <strong>4 medium circles<\/strong> (top, bottom, left, right).<br>Add them: 1 + 4 = <strong>5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3: Count the small circles<\/strong><br>Each medium circle has <strong>2 small circles inside it<\/strong>.<br>Since there are 4 medium circles:<br>4 \u00d7 2 = <strong>8 small circles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add them: 5 + 8 = <strong>13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 4: Check again<\/strong><br>Make sure you didn\u2019t miss anything:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 big circle<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4 medium circles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8 small circles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>At first, this looks very easy\u2014but many people get it wrong because they don\u2019t count everything carefully. The trick is to go step by step. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/?p=995\" title=\"How to Solve This Puzzle (Step-by-Step)\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}