On Friday I posted this great picture by artist Rusty Rust and asked if you could find the hidden tiger….
If you didn’t try to solve the puzzle, have a go now. For everyone else, the answer is after the break.
The words ‘The Hidden Tiger’ are written in the stripes on his back! Did you spot it? Did you suddenly get that ‘aha’ feeling when you saw it?
July 6, 2009 at 6:46 am |
Firsties!
But, yeah. I got that Aha moment when I saw the word ‘Tiger’. ‘The Hidden’ came just after that.
July 6, 2009 at 7:58 am
As I recall, I saw ‘Hidden’ first. And once I spotted it, it’s been impossible NOT to see it. I can no longer see them as ‘just stripes’.
July 6, 2009 at 7:24 am |
To busy looking at my favorite big cat.
July 6, 2009 at 7:25 am |
I did not see that! But I can only see a v v small version of the picture on my phone.
I thought I could see a feline face in the reads, with white whiskers and a black nose!
July 6, 2009 at 8:04 am |
I also spent many minutes looking for a tiger face from the background, even tried rotating & inverting the picture. After a while I concluded it just isn’t in the background, so it must be somehow hidden in the tiger we already see… and then I immediately saw the text. Reminds me of the gorilla effect – if you tell yourself the background is important and the tiger in the foreground irrelevant, you simply don’t see the tiger any more.
July 6, 2009 at 8:07 am |
I still can’t see it, been staring at it for 10 minutes. Maybe I’m looking too hard?
July 6, 2009 at 8:15 am |
I can see an outline of Michael Jackson
July 6, 2009 at 8:51 am |
Fergus’comment made me laugh out loud, great on a Monday morning!
July 6, 2009 at 8:55 am |
I had to cheat and look it up after wasting at least ten minutes examining the background!
I even wondered if the tiger was pregnant!!
July 6, 2009 at 10:03 am |
Total fail!
Now you have given the answer I am kicking myself, especially as I looked for a hidden word among the stripes on Friday. Doh!
July 6, 2009 at 10:58 am |
I totally got that “aha” feeling and may even have run in circles and said WHOOP WHOOP a couple of times.
July 6, 2009 at 11:12 am |
Once you see it, you can’t take your eyes off it!
And also, I show my mum this, and admittingly she’s not very good at spotting these kind of things.
However, she did manage to ’spot’ a tiger’s head with it’s mouth open in the trees behind it – much like looking at clouds and saying that it looks like x, y and z.
July 6, 2009 at 11:19 am |
I did get it but it took a walk away and a cuppa before coming back with a fresh mind.
As soon as I realised I could not miss it.
July 6, 2009 at 12:06 pm |
Didn’t get it before the reveal, still can’t see it properly, and any “AHA!” moment is just a feeling of “What? Some people saw that immediately???” Perhaps I need new eyes.
July 6, 2009 at 2:13 pm |
Hello,
I didn’t find it before you said the answer…
With skepticality,
July 6, 2009 at 2:25 pm |
Probably one of my favourite Friday puzzles so far!
By the way, has everyone seen the MJ ghost on CNN?
July 6, 2009 at 2:26 pm |
woah sorry didn’t know that would put the video up!
July 6, 2009 at 3:24 pm |
Was the tiger face in the weeds to the right purposely put there to throw us off? I had the feeling it could just be a case of pareidolia, but it looked pretty real to me.
July 7, 2009 at 4:17 pm
I saw a black tiger in the grass at the right also. I thought that was a distraction and not the correct answer (’cause that would be a really lame quiz).
July 6, 2009 at 4:57 pm |
I hope the tiger did not eat Albert.
July 6, 2009 at 6:15 pm |
I found the two iridescent green eyes and tigerish paradolia in the reeds to the right and thought “Oh, okay. That must be it.”
Stopped looking. Had no idea until you pointed it out.
July 6, 2009 at 7:58 pm |
I cheated and googled it after looking for about 15 frustrating minutes. When I finally saw it i actually said “ooooooh!!!” out loud.
Too bad I didn’t get my aha moment all on my own.
July 6, 2009 at 10:15 pm |
I think the puzzle is deliberately misleading because it relies on a deliberate failure to adopt the “use-mention” distinction. That is, there is normally a convention of making clear when one is using a word to refer to something else like a tiger or a wombat or a banana, and when one is merely mentioning the words as instances of words, as in “tiger”, “wombat” or “banana”. So if I was to say there is a hidden wombat eating a banana in the picture, I would expect to see a picture of something. But if I said “a wombat eating a banana” is in the picture, I would expect to find those words. The absence of quotation marks made me look for an image of a tiger. I was looking in the foliage, and thought if I somehow relaxed the image would pop out at me like one of those 3-D images. The more people said they could see it the harder I looked for an image, and was locked in. It was only miles away that I thought the fact people were going “ha ha” sounded like a pun. so that directed my attention back to words even though I couldn’t check the picture.
July 6, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Annnnnnnnnd…your point?
July 7, 2009 at 6:06 am |
Yeah, I also see a tiger’s face in the reeds with very bright eyes just to the right of the tiger. I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw that.
July 7, 2009 at 2:21 pm |
I also saw a tiger’s head, with bright eyes, and one front leg sightly forward, on the right side of the painting. Spent lots of time trying to see other images in the greenery, and didn’t notice the words in the stripes at all.
July 12, 2009 at 3:58 am |
I also ’saw’ the tiger in the leaves on the right. Though I noticed the actual “hidden tiger” just before I started reading the comments…