I’d like to ask the good people of this community that, if you do know the solution or figure it out, that you not share the answer here. Feel free to announce your success, but there’s something to be said for discovering the answer completely unaided, even if it takes years.
It’s embarrassingly obvious once you see it though.
IMHO, although it is hard to solve, it is neither brilliant nor profound - rather, it is misleading. It relies on a simple and common trickery involving multiple of 3, which is easy to see through for those with mathematical intuition. Of course many do not practice math, so it is seemingly interesting for them, but it’s not much.
I do agree that there is no objective metric as to what constitutes as “brilliant” or “profound”.
I suppose that the lack of clarity in your comments intention and (what I assume) your thought process being laid out for the audience to check for fallacy, was interpreted as unkind behaviour: specifically implying that those who weren’t following your thinking process were not smart.
I doubt that you had such an intention when you wrote this comment, so I write this reply to highlight that “truth”, “fact”, and “opinion” in an inaccessible format may lead to misinterpretation and unwarranted conclusions.
TLDR: Yes, and please consider rephrasing to communicate intention.