The Internet Is Losing Its Mind Over This Easy AF Puzzle

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9 = WTF?

Internet puzzles tend to drive people to the brink of insanity.

Facebook user Antley Lamont Staten recently posted a photo of a puzzle that was clearly making his head hurt:

“Ok I don't get it?” he wrote as a comment -- and he wasn’t alone. Since Staten posted the confounding conundrum, it has been shared almost 400,000 times with others trying to figure out WTF the answer to this mysterious math problem is.

Some took a stab at it.

“It's 4 and 5. 3+6 = 9. 2+5=7 not 8 and 1+4=5 not 7. That's how I looked at it,” one commenter wrote.

Another commenter who, after assumedly pulling out a handful of hair while trying to figure it out, proclaimed this after solving it:

“Omg. Took me a while because I was concentrating on the #'s lol.”

Thing is, that’s the trick. It’s actually not a math problem at all.

If you look at the sign to the left, it reads “Share when you find the mitsake.”

Mistake is spelled incorrectly.

Yup. That’s it. Kind of makes you feel like this, right?:

Especially after you felt like this while trying to figure it out:

Us too. Now excuse we while we go out and buy some Aspirin.

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