How many?

Lara said:
There are two ways of looking at this because they could all be leaning against a wall where what you see is what it is...16. But if you imagine it standing alone then it's 30.
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Thought of typing that, but, the way things are going this morning ~ I'd explode due to exasperation. lol
 
Actually it is 25! There are 12 on the bottom, 8 on the second row, 4 on the third row, 1 on the top. Take the bottom row of white eggs. There are 4 corner eggs and 2 eggs on each of the 4 sides between them, or a total of 12 (not 16). Most of you have been counting the corner eggs twice. By that reasoning there should be 8 visible white eggs, but there are only 7! You had double counted the corner egg!
 
The eggs on the upper levels have to be sitting on something. It’s not empty in the middle. By that logic there’d be 4 rows of 4 (16), etc.
 
spectratg said:
Actually it is 25! There are 12 on the bottom, 8 on the second row, 4 on the third row, 1 on the top. Take the bottom row of white eggs. There are 4 corner eggs and 2 eggs on each of the 4 sides between them, or a total of 12 (not 16). Most of you have been counting the corner eggs twice. By that reasoning there should be 8 visible white eggs, but there are only 7! You had double counted the corner egg!
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Don't know about anyone else but i counted bottom row by extrapolating that 4 rows of 4 each (as evidenced by rows visible in each direction, 9 in 2nd row (3 rows of 3 eggs each) and that's likely the same logic you applied to get 4 eggs in 3rd row up (2 X 2) even tho we can only actually see 3 eggs. As Lara pointed out it could be leaning against something but then it likely would still be more than we actually see because without diagonal rows up against the wall there would be nothing in center to fully support the 2nd thru 4th rows because as Jules pointed those upper levels need support. Unless the designer of this puzzle 'cheating' and put something besides eggs in there, which is possible, of course.
 
visible 17 then 3 for structural support but if calculated by counting base & subsequent stacks the count would be 30
 
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