A joker put a logic puzzle in a newspaper about 200 years ago. The author says that even a child can figure it out, but this is not true. At first glance, the job seems easy: find two cats in a picture in one minute. However, only a few people can solve the puzzle. Just in case, we’ll put the right words under the picture, just in case. In Victorian England, these kinds of funny drawings were very famous. Puzzles from all over the country were sent to the editors, but most of them were easy to answer.

The people in the town were used to clicking easy puzzles, so the author’s trick and the time limit confused them. They had exactly one minute to do the job, after which the puzzle was considered unsolved. Pay attention to the picture below. It shows the father reading the newspaper, the mother making a sweater, and the daughter playing with a doll on the floor. Where are the cats, though? Try to figure out how to solve the problem in the 60 seconds you have. The first cat is just sitting at a man’s feet, in plain sight. The trouble starts when they try to find a second animal. Most people notice that the chair arm is bent like a cat’s tail, look at it, and waste precious seconds doing so. Then the focus moves to the girl, but there isn’t a cat next to her. Instead, there is a doll.

Almost no time is left, and most people usually lose. Because of the trick with the chair arm, the watcher can’t see the woman’s dress. She isn’t knitting, but she is holding a pince-nez in her hand. Not a jacket, but a white cat is sitting on her lap.

Check out how this puzzle is solved:

The test seems easy at first, but it really tests how well you pay attention. Sometimes you need to be able to change your mind quickly.