text: how many insects were playing? how many spiders? once the spiders and the insects played a game of tag. to be fair, the insects were allowed to have more members on their team, because an insect has fewer legs than a spider. (as you know, a spider has eight legs, while an insect has only six.) altogether, there were 20 heads and 136 legs in the game. looks like just about everyone got the answer, so i'll leave,