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By Alyce Collins
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What should have been an easy spot the difference puzzle for children has left one family completely stumped—and it seems to have left social media utterly bewildered too. So, can you see any differences?
In a now viral post, Reddit user u/MrJ01, who goes by the name Jason, shared the seemingly impossible spot the difference puzzle that his 8-year-old nephew asked him to help with. At first, the 31-year-old uncle thought it would be a breeze, as it was, quite literally, child's play.
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However, the more Jason looked at it, he realized it wasn't quite so straight forward after all. He told Newsweek that he expected to solve it within seconds, but after several minutes, he began to doubt his ability "to solve a simple kids' puzzle."
Seeing as Jason, nor indeed the rest of his family, were able to find any differences between the two images, he decided to bring in reinforcements. Jason, from the Netherlands, shared the images in a Reddit post on June 30 to see if anyone could find a single contrast between the pictures.
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The post went viral with over 23,000 votes and more than 1,100 comments so far. And yet, despite all the online attention, not a single difference has been found between the images and Reddit remains baffled.
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"I was having a family lunch to celebrate my aunt's birthday, and my nephews got a puzzle plate from the restaurant," Jason said. "After finishing all the other puzzles, one of my nephews asked for help with the spot the difference puzzle, which supposedly had six differences.
"I thought it would be easy, and I expected to see the first differences within seconds. But I looked long and hard, only to get mildly infuriated and I started to think it was just two identical images. I asked my family and everyone agreed it was probably a misprint."
After failing to find a single discrepancy between the two cartoons, Jason's nephew took matters into his own hands and started to add his own changes to the pictures so there would be something to solve after all.
The 8-year-old gave one of the clouds a face, then added a bird in the sky, and even drew a sun in the top corner.
When Jason posted the pictures on Reddit, he was hoping that social media users could help solve the confusing puzzle, but he never anticipated it would generate quite as much attention as it has.
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Jason was glad so many people attempted to solve the mystery of the two images, before reaching the conclusion that they must be identical.
He told Newsweek: "I loved how people from all over the world took the time to help me look for the differences, even overlapping the two images to prove the images are in fact the same. I also loved the many memes that Redditors made out of it."
In just a matter of days, the viral Reddit post has amassed over 1,100 comments as many people attempted to hone their detective skills, but they were equally stumped. One comment reads: "The same picture so that will make it impossible to find any difference."
Another person joked: "There's a molecule of ink extra in his right eye."
While another Redditor commented: "There are some differences in line thickness between the two images, but they definitely did something wrong. Or good if their aim was to keep a child busy for an indefinite amount of time."
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