Count the circles in the picture: a challenging puzzle that will show your IQ

Puzzles have been called one of the best ways to stretch your brain, develop new neural connections and boost your IQ. Especially if it's a fairly atypical task that requires you to think outside the box.

Just such a puzzle publishes OBOZ.UA. The task it puts before the player is quite simple - to count the circles in the figure. But are you sure that you are able to cope with it, and to keep within 5 seconds?

Look at the picture of the task. It is very simple - it contains only a pink background and several concentric circles with one in the middle. You have five seconds to answer exactly how many of these circles you see in front of you

• option A: 1
• option B: 5
• option C: 8
• option D: 9

In any case, there are not so many circles here that you need to spend a long time counting them. You should definitely be able to handle it. Ready to give your answer? Choose one of the options above.

Now on to the correct answer. Most people count only black circles and they get answer B - 5. But in fact, the circles are also the pink spaces between them. Look closely, they have the right shape too. Moreover, the circle in the center also counts, because, by definition, such a geometric figure is part of the area bounded by the circle.

Thus, the correct answer to this problem is option D. There are nine circles in the figure - four black, four pink and one more central.

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