This is a particularly sssss sneaky snake.
Thought last month’s Visual Wildlife Safari was stunning? Puzzle lovers will have their eyes bursting as they try to solve the latest animal optical illusion from Hungarian author and artist Gergely Dudás – also known as The Dudolf.
This time viewers are challenged to find a snake in a sea of turtles.
Additionally, anyone who spots the snake in less than 15 seconds will reportedly break the world record, according to people who track this type of success rate.
[Warning: Spoilers below]
The herpetological Where’s Waldo, created by Hungarian cartoonist and illusionist Gergely Dudás, features a cluster of green and brown turtles in a field of grass, with the gliding one seemingly nowhere to be seen.
Finding the snake in the grass is particularly difficult because the snake looks identical to the turtles’ long, green necks.
Luckily for confused puzzlers, Dudás has provided a handy spoiler showing the sneaky serpent poking its head out from behind a turtle shell in the lower left corner. It is this creature shellless Head and neck appeared in the sea of snakes.
Still can’t see? If you give up, scroll to the bottom of this page for the reveal.
This is not the time when the artist has created a puzzle that will stretch viewers’ brains to the limit.
In another of his needle-in-a-haystack-like drawings, viewers are challenged to find the mouse among the mushrooms in less than a minute.
Meanwhile, another illusion invites puzzle lovers to find the coconuts in a veritable brown bear mosh pit.
Full Disclosure: Optical illusions like these are often intended just as a light-hearted distraction from the stresses of modern life — but they also have legitimate scientific value for medical professionals. These brain teasers are credited with helping researchers shed light on the complex inner workings of the human mind and how it responds to its surroundings.
dr Gustav Kuhn, a psychologist and expert on human perception at Goldsmiths University in London, once told The Sun that illusions are important to our understanding of the brain: “We usually take perception for granted and rarely think about the hard work that goes into it everyday life is based on tasks, such as seeing a cup of coffee in front of you.”
