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Strange, it worked for me too. But I suspect it does not work for people born after 2000.So today's puzzler:
Start with 80
Subtract your age
Add 40
The answer is the year you were born
(For the life of me I don't know how this works but it does for me.)
Yes it does. A 19 year old born in 2001 - 80 minus 19 is 61 plus 40 = --01.
I know it's a simple rationale and I love working those kinds of puzzles, but I can't quite wrap my head around why this works for everybody.
Think of it this way: what the problem really does is ask you to subtract your age from 120. If you look at 120 as being equivalent to today, 2020, it's just subtracting your age from the current year.
Except that it still works in 2021????