This Task Is Not As Easy As You Might Think

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Your first instinct is to go to the large shape on the page and count all possible triangles inside, correct?

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Martin Silvertant, a mathemetician and fellow Quora user, has taken that liberty for you. So if we count, the answer is 24. Right?

Incorrect. The title of the puzzle is: "How many triangles are in this picture?"

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What you have guessed is the number of triangles inside the SHAPE.

Have you guessed the correct answer yet?

We see at least two more.

One hidden in the signature:

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And one cleverly concealed by altering the logic of what we are looking for.

We were asked, "how many triangles?" Not: "how many triangle shapes?"