Only people with 20/20 vision can solve a new puzzle.
The puzzle features dozens of ripe strawberries, topped with green leaves, which at first glance all look the same.
But if we look closer, one of them has no stem.
The challenge is to find the strange strawberry in less than 15 seconds.
The puzzle features dozens of ripe strawberries, topped with green leaves, that at first glance all look the same. The challenge is to find the odd strawberry out in less than 15 seconds.
While it’s possible to instantly tell what an object is just by looking at it, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes that we don’t realize.
The brain goes to work breaking down an object into its individual properties, comparing them to known properties, and putting those properties back together.
Depending on how similar the observed object is to a known category, it is then recognized as a piece of furniture, a container, or, in the case of the new puzzle, a strawberry.
“However, it has not yet been clear how we consider things to be similar or less similar,” the Max Planck Institute noted.
The new puzzle, created by online gaming service Vegas Slots Online, was inspired by this year’s Wimbledon tennis match, where strawberries are considered a delicacy.
Did you post the stemless strawberry in less than 15 seconds? Tell us in the comments!
Strawberries look identical at first glance, bright red and covered in tiny specks called achenes.
Each achene contains a single seed, also called an ovary.
One tip is to scan each strawberry individually rather than looking at the puzzle as a whole.
You can also divide the puzzle into sections, to help you analyze them faster: the challenge is to find the different section in less than 15 seconds.