I saw a maths puzzle today that seemed like it doubled as a good language lesson
Se tenho 5 gatos vendo 4 gatos e ganho mais 5 gatos, com quantos gatos fico?
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 14 (d) 10
My answer was (b) but I was wrong, the answer is (d), he ends up with 10.
He’s playing a little trick because you read it as him staring with 5, selling 4 and getting another 5. And if it had a comma after the first “5 gatos” that would be right, but it doesn’t. So reading it as it is, that “vendo” is not the first person singular present tense of vender it’s the gerundio of Ver. He has five cats but he can only see four of them when he gets the other five and now he has ten.
Luso 
He has 5 cats seeing 4 cats. The 5 see the other 4, not him 😀
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Ah! OK, that makes even more sense then – so one of them isn’t hiding! Thanks!
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