It’s that time again! The internet has brought forth another mind-numbingly crazy riddle – and this one truly has us all stumped.
Facebook user Nejib Tej has posted an equation containing horseshoes, horses, and cowboy boots – and it involves a good bit of algebra. Shouldn’t be too hard to solve…. right?
Take a look for yourself:

Nejib Tej
The entire internet is stumped. Within hours, millions of comments have sprung up with widely varying answers:

Nejib Tej
So what’s the catch? Take a look at the equation again above and see if you can master it. If not – don’t worry. So are we. And we’re here to help!
Abby Heugel of ’22 Words’, offered up some excellent points to help us all through this amazing equation.
Did the video help?
One final tip: In the last line, because of brackets; indices; division; multiplication; addition; and subtraction (or BIDMAS), you need to multiply the horse by the shoe before you add the boot!