Being real, if this post hadn’t made it clear that the solution was non obvious, I likely would have given up before getting it, just because my chicken is being more interesting than usual.

But, knowing that there was a “trick” to it, meaning that it takes some lateral thinking, I didn’t take my usual approach to number puzzles, which means it only took one look at the upper left for the likely solution to be visible. Then it was just running down and testing with the rest, then plugging in for the solution.

No way in hell I would have had the patience for it when my baby bird is being a silly dinosaur without that front loading assumption the solution wouldn’t be evident with a systematic approach. Oh, I’d have given it maybe fifteen minutes, but with a fuzzy butt in play, that would have been it