Twenty Objects Trick

1. Place 20 objects on a table.

2. Remove any number of items from 1 to 10.

3. The items that remain will be a two-digit number.

4. Find the sum of these two digits and remove that many more items from the table.

5. Now remove some of the remaining objects, and tell me how many you removed.

Enter the number of items you removed in step 5:

 
 
 

Many thanks to Jaime Garcia Ramirez for helping me with the javascript!

 

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