If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks in the other field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in another field? Read more at:

Why this works

This riddle plays on the idea of combining objects versus counting them separately. Initially, the farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 in another, which totals 9 haystacks. However, when he combines them into a single field, all those haystacks merge into one large haystack rather than remaining separate. The trick lies in recognizing that the act of "combining" changes the nature of the count from individual stacks to a singular, unified one!