Only geniuses can solve this math puzzle in 10 seconds!

Brain Teaser to Test Your IQ: Brain teasers are excellent puzzle games for providing the brain with an effective mental workout. This math puzzle is a type of brain teaser in which you need to find the missing value. These types of brain teasers test your logical and analytical thinking capabilities. Do you have a high IQ? Then find the missing number in this math puzzle now!

Apr 30, 2025, 14:03 IST
Can you solve the math puzzle?
Can you solve the math puzzle?

A math puzzle is a type of brain teaser that tests the reader's critical thinking and problem-solving skills by challenging them to solve a problem. These challenges have the potential to boost intelligence and improve concentration.

Brain teaser challenges mostly involve solving a puzzle, cracking a code, finding a hidden object or mistake, or detecting the fault in the image. Practising these activities frequently improves problem-solving abilities and gives the brain an effective mental workout.

Do you have a genius mind?

Let’s find out!

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Brain Teaser to Test Your IQ: Solve the Math Puzzle

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In this image shared above, a math puzzle is depicted where the final step is missing the value, and the challenge for the readers is to find the missing value in 10 seconds.

Can you?

Your time starts now!

Experts suggest that people who can solve such brain teasers have excellent logical and analytical skills. Regular practice of brain teasers like these sharpens cognitive abilities and problem-solving skills, thereby preventing cognitive decline in older age. 

Have you found the missing value?

Check the image once more and try to identify the pattern for finding the missing value.

The time is running out.

Hurry up.

The last few seconds remain...

And...

Time's up!

How many of you have successfully solved the math puzzle?

Congratulations to those exceptionally intelligent readers who solved the math puzzle.

Others who couldn’t find the missing value can check out the solution provided below.

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Brain Teaser with Answer

The solution to this math puzzle is as follows:

Given

1+ 1 = 121

2+ 2  = 444

3 + 3  = 969

4+ 4 = ???

Now, if you observe carefully, the pattern followed here is

The number is obtained by the multiplication of the first number by itself; the second number is the sum of the first number and the second number, and the third number is the multiplication of the second number by itself.

Therefore 1 + 1 becomes

1 * 1 = 1

1+ 1 = 2

1 * 1 = 1

The number becomes 121

Similarly,

4+4 becomes

4 * 4 = 16

4 + 4 = 8

4 * 4 = 16

The missing number is 16816. 

If you loved this brain teaser challenge, remember to try out some more challenges from our must-try section below.

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