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Brain teaser: Can you spell 'Candy' with two letters? Viral puzzle baffles people

A video shared on Instagram captures a man's struggles while trying to solve a candy-related brain teaser. Can you crack it?

Published on: Feb 18, 2024, 09:19:17 IST
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Brain teaser can leave people baffled and tied up for hours in search of answers. However, at the same time, they are entertaining. Are you someone who loves solving challenging puzzles, then we have a brain teaser you’ll love. The puzzle is simple and it challenges an individual to write the word “Candy” using just two letters.

Can you solve this brain teaser that has left Instagram users puzzled? (Instagram/@jordan_the_stallion8)
Can you solve this brain teaser that has left Instagram users puzzled? (Instagram/@jordan_the_stallion8)

Instagram user Jordan Howlett shared a video on that shows him reacting to the candy-related puzzle. “It took so long,” he shared and posted the clip.

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The video opens to show a conversation between two men where one asks the other to write “Candy” but with two letters. The rest of the clip shows Howlett giving it his all to find the answer. Ultimately, he does crack the puzzle but also admits that it took him over two hours to do that.

Do you think you can solve the puzzle before the video ends?

“Just want to thank you for giving the answer and not leaving us to figure it out,” posted an Instagram user. “That’s two letters and a word. Bad riddle, truly such a bad riddle. Lol. I believe you would have gotten it faster if it were a good one,” added another with a laughing out loud emotion.

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A third joined, “Thank you for saving me a trip through the rabbit hole”. A fourth wrote, “This is crazy”. A few, however, wrote that they found the brain teaser easy and solved it “right away”.

 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Trisha Sengupta

Trisha Sengupta is a Chief Content Producer at Hindustan Times with over six years of digital newsroom experience. Specialising in high-engagement storytelling, she blends viral trends with traditional journalism to cover the intersection of technology, finance, and human emotion. Her reporting spans real estate and personal finance struggles in hubs like Bengaluru and Gurgaon, the NRI experience, and corporate shifts like tech layoffs. Trisha also frequently tracks global figures and writes human interest stories. Offline, Trisha is an avid reader, history enthusiast and solo traveler. She balances her journalism career with family life while actively integrating AI tools into her modern storytelling approach.

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