Mind Game Riddle!!!

[blackfeet]

This riddle must be done IN YOUR HEAD and NOT using paper and a pen. Try it!

Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000.

Now add 30. And another 1000.

Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10.

What is the total?



Did you get 5000? Way to go... most of us do, join the crowd!

But you know what? We're all wrong!

The correct answer is actually 4100. Don't believe it? Check it with a calculator or on paper!

The brain sure knows how to play little tricks on us, doesn't it?

[Manowar]

god damn, that just fucked me up.

I keep getting 5000 and calc tells me im wrong, I'm guessing i get fucked up on the 3rd line somewhere

[ssp]

I must be a fucking genius because I don't see why it could be any other answer than 4100.

[blackfeet]

i did it twice and still got 5000 the second time. lol

[tungsten]

I must be a fucking genius because I don't see why it could be any other answer than 4100.

same, i got 4100

[MacDaddyPlaya]

Everyone pretty much gets to 4,090. When you add the last 10, since you have been thinking in terms of thousands, you mistakingly increase the thousandths place to 5,000 instead of the hundredths place to 4,100.

[BuggyG]

Everyone pretty much gets to 4,090. When you add the last 10, since you have been thinking in terms of thousands, you mistakingly increase the thousandths place to 5,000 instead of the hundredths place to 4,100.

hehehehe exactly!
but since seen this soo many times.. knew it already
but yeah... you explained it nicely

[myjah]

I can't believe I kept getting 5000. I had to break out the calculator to test it. LOL.