This simple cookie puzzle asks:
“You have 8 cookies. You eat 3. How many do you have left?”
The easiest way to solve it is with subtraction.
You start with:
8 cookies
Then you eat:
3 cookies
So:
8 − 3 = 5
That means you have:
5 cookies left.
Sometimes puzzles like this make people second-guess themselves because the wording feels almost too easy. But there is no hidden trick here — you simply subtract the cookies that were eaten from the original total.
Answer: 5 cookies.
Did you get 5 right away, or did you overthink it?
