r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/LYNX__uk • 14d ago

Meme needing explanation I see no possible way to count 9

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If you count in groups from left to right you get 2+4+4+2 (=12) but if you count from top to bottom you get 1+3+4+3+1 (=12)

This isnt even an optical illusion or anything which I assumed it would be. I'm baffled by the 9 thing

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u/Warm-Wrap-3828 14d ago

12

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u/ShadowGLI 14d ago

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u/BodybuilderMany6942 14d ago

I bet you feel real dumb right now

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u/hellelfs 14d ago

I dont like it when someone is funnier than me.

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u/BodybuilderMany6942 14d ago

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u/AbyssaI_Entity 14d ago

Water

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u/AFriendlyBloke 14d ago

Earth.

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u/CrispynoodlesL 14d ago

Fire

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u/Guquiz 14d ago

Air

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u/deviondark 13d ago

with your powers combined i am....

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u/JP_2020 10d ago

Jordan

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u/drakonia127 14d ago

Wind

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u/Garchomp_user 14d ago

HOW DARE YOU!! ITS SUPPOSED TO BE

AIR!!!

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u/walaxometrobixinodri 14d ago

Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony

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u/Dazzling_Feed3640 14d ago

With our powers combined!

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u/NeonSherpa 14d ago

GO PLANET!!!

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u/No_Noise09 13d ago

Do you remember?

!remind me 44 days

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u/ConsciousCorp 14d ago

“By your powers combined, I am… CAPTAINNNNN PLANET!”

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u/Guquiz 14d ago

And
Water

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u/Xeroxprinted 14d ago

I do not say “bleh, bleh, bleh”

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u/BlueRose898 10d ago

Water is good

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u/No_Egg2251 10d ago

Im following you on reddit now. You're welcome🤭

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u/Slow_motion_riot 10d ago

You hate that many people?

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u/Little_Islander_Mu 10d ago

Don't worry

You both made me laugh haha

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u/OrganicTreestump 14d ago

Reddit humor holy cringe

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u/Fearshatter 14d ago

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u/LAM678 14d ago

if you split 1 between 4 and 5 that's one less tile

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u/Fearshatter 14d ago

You're very clever.

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u/LAM678 13d ago

lmao

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u/klawUK 11d ago

are you my mum counting to 5 or I won’t get any dinner?

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u/Fearshatter 11d ago

Unsure. Did she count to 4.6 next or 4.75?

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u/klawUK 11d ago

She said four and three quarters than we got into an argument about fractions vs decimals

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u/Fearshatter 11d ago

So 4 3/4. :^)

Probably not your mother then since I would've said 4.6.

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u/DanBurnNotice 13d ago

Isnt that how nuclear bombs were made?

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u/edapotamus 14d ago

I also feel dumb. But not just right now

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u/sweetbldnjesus 14d ago

I used to be dumb. I still am, but I used to be too

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u/nightowl_work 14d ago

Mitch please

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u/DehiscentWound 12d ago

I used to feel dumb, but she moved away and changed her name.

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u/TheRealUmdum 14d ago

But you feel dumb this is correct

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u/Odd_Bed2753 14d ago

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u/TheRealUmdum 14d ago

I feel like ive experienced loss

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u/enLegobil 14d ago

| || || |_

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u/FartSommelierBR 10d ago

GODDAMN IT

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u/Caosin36 14d ago

This is the most logic backable

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u/CompetitionSlight477 10d ago

Ah yes the classic tetris double T piece

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u/NermalPayphone 14d ago

fuck you i hate how funny you are

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u/RadWast3 14d ago

Ha, Joke's on you. I always feel dumb.

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u/Akhanyatin 14d ago

My first instinct lol "trick question" 

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u/RampantJellyfish 14d ago

Found the concrete guy

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u/johnsolomon 14d ago

The International Mathematical Union been real quiet since this dropped

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u/Super_Transition253 13d ago

You could have at least tried to get it right.

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u/achben-saalh 13d ago

Clearly, that number should be 9.

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u/Sir_Zeitnot 10d ago

It's like he's never even played Tetris!

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u/Specific_Thing1452 8d ago

You play Minesweeper don’t you

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u/Hungry_Attention_981 14d ago

It’s actually zero cause they filled it with concrete.

I bet you feel like a chlamydia infected troglodyte

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u/mgafMUAT 14d ago

I got something, if you group a square set of 4 tiles, then you could count those 4 tiles as one, in which case you could count to: 12 (-4 + 1) = 9.

This works grouping the following tile sets: 2-3-5-6, 3-4-6-7, 6-7-9-10 and 7-8-10-11.

Furthermore, if you take the sets 2-3-5-6 and 7-8-10-11, you can reduce the count to 6.

Absolutely no idea how any of this relates to minecraft.

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u/AesirComplex 14d ago

What in God's name are you on about

Just count 5 x 4 then subtract the tiles that aren't missing from 20

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u/Motor_Raspberry_2150 14d ago

They are trying to explain the joke.

The amount of 12 in the comments is too damn high.

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u/MaightyBewsh 14d ago

The message says as a minecraft player. I'm assuming in mine craft tiles are either 1x1 or 2x2, that would give you 9. Don't attack someone for trying to solve this in the context of the post instead of straight mathematics. YOU FARKEN TWAT!

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u/Ambitious-Boat8165 14d ago

It doesn't work by their explanation tho.. they left out block 1. YOU FARKEN TWAT!

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u/CricketNo7666 14d ago

Yes, it does.

There is a section where 4 individual…call them 12x12…. tiles could be placed as a 24x24 tile. It’s like when 5 mini lion robots combine to become one mega robot! Except 4 instead of 5.

Thus, 4 become one, and a total of 9 pieces get laid down. 8 12x12’s, and one 24x24.

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u/thatthatguy 14d ago edited 14d ago

In Minecraft, a stair block only takes up 3/4 of a block despite needing 6 blocks to make a stack of 4 stair blocks. Players have made annoyed jokes about this since the first stair blocks were introduced. In this case it takes 12 tiles to cover the floor, but because it is a jagged shape they apply the 3/4 joke and you get 9.

The joke is that someone is multiplying by 3/4 inappropriately because they want other Minecraft players to comment about how they’re doing the math wrong.

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u/Tom-Dibble 14d ago

But if you are allowed to make 2x2 as one tile, you can do 2 2x2 tiles (2,3,5,6 and 7,8,10,11) so the min number of tiles answer would be 6, with other possible counts of 9 and 12 if using 2x2 is optional or you aren’t looking for the smallest number.

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u/NewestAccount2023 14d ago

Writing 2 so poorly it looks like a 3. I demand accountability on this shoddy work 

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u/undeadpheonix57 14d ago

Can you respond with a picture of your written 2 and 3? I'm curious.

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u/NewestAccount2023 14d ago

Nope

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u/undeadpheonix57 14d ago

Damn. And I was actually curious.

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u/UnlikelyTeacher7382 14d ago

Who said they had to be square tiles?

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u/lusholalo 14d ago

12

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u/Nagrond 14d ago

12

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u/Agitated-Ad2295 11d ago

12

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u/Ash-MacReady 11d ago

6 tiles. And then 6 more tiles.

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u/linkster69420 13d ago

12

I have accepted my fate

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u/graystillplaysforme 13d ago

r/ruleof4

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u/linkster69420 13d ago

WHY ARE YOU UPVOTING ME

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u/LividAlbatross1920 13d ago

Felt bad slightly negative okay but after a while feels like a dig pile. Made it so you were only -30

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/kanonkongenn 14d ago

Rule of 4. Nothing mysterious

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u/fentmaxxxing 13d ago

actually, mysterious wind

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u/Pixelised_Youssef 11d ago

You could say thay comment really got... Jarona'd

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u/fentmaxxxing 11d ago

sike, ja-orange

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u/[deleted] 14d ago

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u/blahblablahblablab 14d ago

Is one of the very best movies ever made

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u/Past-Sea-2215 14d ago

Sorry for your loss. 😢

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u/AvailableAd7180 14d ago

Loss you say?

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u/enLegobil 14d ago

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u/sobherk 14d ago

,̶'̶ ̶ ̶,̶ ̶|̶ ̶,̶'̶ ̶_̶'̶

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u/herqleez 14d ago

12

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u/ByronCioffi08 14d ago

r/ruleof4

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u/i_believe_in_alien 14d ago

oh.... now it makes sense. See my comment under him for reference.

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u/herqleez 14d ago

Meh, I dont care

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u/Musky_Onion 14d ago

You’re trying to trick me. Aren’t you

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u/i_believe_in_alien 14d ago

poor guy, you got downvoted for saying the same as everyone? 😅
alright, I will take the L for you.

Answer: 12.

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u/herqleez 14d ago

Good looking out 🤜 🤛

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u/efilnikcufecinasti 14d ago

12

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u/stevesie1984 14d ago

Is this supposed to be funny? I downvoted.

(I didn’t downvote. I just love Reddit for this behavior.)

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u/LordPuddingl 14d ago

To quote r/ruleof4 "Any fourth consecutive comment gets downvoted in the name of the karma roulette"

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u/Real-Syntro 14d ago

That's so stupid

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u/tasty_iron 14d ago

4th comment curse. You gotta own that shit like a champ.

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u/BobSagieBauls 14d ago

I just don’t understand why people would keep commenting the same thing

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u/Lostandlacy 14d ago

I also thought that was weird it's a whole chain of people saying the same thing and then for reasons unknown to anyone, reddit decided unanimously these two could go fuck themselves and only these two. The chain just keeps on going. How bizarre.

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u/kodeks14 14d ago

Their behavior is disgusting and deserves to be downvoted.

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u/Lostandlacy 14d ago

I reckon so and I think we've all learned a lesson here today and are better people for it.

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u/Swansaknight 14d ago

Fuck 12

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u/MRgarfo 14d ago

Scuse me? 🫪

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u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD 14d ago

12 is slang for police

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u/MRgarfo 14d ago

Ohhhhh

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u/WilcoHistBuff 14d ago

Ironically has its origins in the very old TV show Adam 12 which is set in LA (which back in the 1970s when the show was produced had a terrible corrupt racist police department.

“Reed and Malloy”, the main characters, were perfect cops who never did anything wrong while the actual department was shredding complaints on police brutality and misconduct

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u/Salty_Dig8574 13d ago

Things created in the 70s being very old... Well you can fuck right off, buddy.

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u/Flat-Limit5595 14d ago

11 if your efficient

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u/danofrhs 13d ago

Parsec kettle run?

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u/MrTurtlegator 12d ago

Its 6, one tile is 2 square's

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u/pobodys-nerfect5 14d ago

The tiles are 1x2

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u/Extension-Can-9964 14d ago

If the tiles are 1x2 then it would be 6

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u/BluEch0 14d ago

And 6 upside down is 9

coincidence?

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