One of my favorite Christmas memories is doing puzzles with my family.
Jigsaw puzzles, crossword puzzles, Rush Hour (I haven’t made it to expert level, but my son has), the original I.Q. puzzle we bought at the Friendly’s restaurant in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania over ten years ago, and I Spy books cover our tables during the holiday season.
When friends and family visit, they see the puzzles and immediately start trying to solve them.
“Where’s the peel of lime on this I Spy page?” asked David.
“I found that a couple minutes ago,” replies Patrick. “Did you find the slim silver dime?”
So when I saw the puzzle on Twitter earlier this week, where you needed to find one panda in an ocean of snowmen, I had to give it a try.
There’s not a lot of difference between the white snowmen and the one single white panda.
Do you see the panda?
It took me 30 seconds to find it.
Guess I’m not good at finding pandas.
My friends and family were able to locate the panda a lot faster. My son found it in less than 10 seconds.
The puzzle is the work of Gergõ Dudás, a cartoonist from Budapest, Hungary. His cartoon puzzle caught the attention of people on Twitter and Facebook, who shared it with their friends and followers.
Hard to know how many times it was shared on Twitter, since many people shared it from their own accounts.
On Facebook, Dudás’ post was shared over 160,000 times. And the popular puzzle made the news, highlighted on New York Magazine, Huffington Post, and a couple hundred other news sites.
Much to my delight, Dudás posted another cartoon puzzle this week, a sea of owls with a single cat.
How’d I do with the second puzzle?
I solved it in less than five seconds! Guess I’m better at finding cats than pandas.
How’d my son do? Took him over 15 seconds to locate the cat.
Score: it’s a tie with Mom 1, Son 1.
