This is how visual challenges star in some of the most viral content

Constantly, we all receive in our mail, our WhatsApp or our Facebook account, games that try to test our ingenuity, imagination or visual skill.There are a thousand types, more fun or darker.But they have one thing in common: we cannot avoid trying them and see if we are able to solve them .This is how the visual challenges star in some of the most viral content of the network.

Visual challenges, why are we crazy?

The visual challenges are games.So, they attend to this playful and fun part that people have no choice but to feed from time to time.They are pure and hard entertainment, with no more pretensions, and that desire to Having fun represents one of the main features that are sought when surfing the Internet .

Another of the qualities for which they succeed is because they challenge the mind directly.Human beings love that feeling of feeling a little troubled, somewhat lost, but convinced that there is a solution to that enigma to which, sooner or later, it will come.Rather, we like it before, so we go crazy trying to figure out the correct answer.An answer that, perhaps, is much more logical than you might think.image, to challenge ourselves, but, at the same time, to have the peace of mind of knowing that we don't play anything, brings the adventurous dose enough to calm the need for challenge .

Of course, we cannot deny it, we also love to share those visual challenges with others.Once we already know the correct answer, of course. When the trick has been revealed before our eyes, we become complices of the enigma .We share it on our networks and challenge our friends.As if that game had been invented by us.We are pleased to provide such ingenious content and, of course, if we can, we presume how simple it has been for We solve it.

That is, the visual challenges are fun, they are ingenious, they do not require too much time...All this makes them terribly viral.

Also in the analog world

This is how visual challenges star in some of the most viral content

Although, of course, let's not get confused.It is true that the Internet has awakened a universe full of fantastic possibilities that come from all over the world.But the network has not invented visual challenges.These exist, practically, since the world is world.So, those of us who were analog children already lived our fever with books like 'Where is Wally?', In which that young boy in glasses and striped shirt was walking through the strangest stages and overpopulated.

And many still remember the excitement of the first time.The first time they could see a 3D image , obviously.Lamines that concealed a drawing or a shape, an enigma behind the first impression.We were winding our brains to come to focus.We would squint so that the image would sprout, like fireworks before our eyes.And if, challenging the mind is one of the most beautiful qualities we have as human beings It makes us grow, think and evolve.

Then, a small review of some of the challenges we can find on the network.It is impossible to choose only one.

Are you able to find...?

These visual challenges are version 2.0 of `` Where is Wally? '' They are characterized by presenting a sheet full of very similar characters, who, crowded and asphyxiated, hide someone different.A being totally different from the one that has been to find among all the marabunta. The more exaggerated the contrast, the more they like these games .Another of their qualities is that they are starred by tender and visually very cheerful animated beings.Cats, of course, are great protagonists.

The graphic artist Dudolf is one of the great precursors of this kind of games.Its striking way of drawing makes his images totally recognizable.Many others try to imitate his style.But Dudolf He always manages to keep surprising.On his Facebook profile, he constantly gives fans more and more puzzles.

Where is it?

These types of challenges are similar to the previous typology and, at the same time, different.In this case, there is usually a landscape and an animal, a person or an object are camouflaged between their pixels .If in the first case overwhelmed the large number of characters, in this second, the viewer feels overwhelmed because he sees nothing .Are there really five hidden cats in that garden? If only a few plants appear...

A few weeks ago, a visual challenge that I publish, on your social networks, was nothing more famous than the British army.A picture of the Brunei jungle in which they hide, we will not say the number, just , that there are a few soldiers.An action that the institution launched to approach citizens , showing its funniest and cordial side.

A young woman or an old woman?

We now turn to a kind of challenge that can give a little bit of'yuyu 'because sometimes they are conceived as exercises that reveal how is the personality of the person who looks at them.This is the classic challenge in which a drawing hides two completely different images. What do we see: two faces or a cup? Thus, they are a much more committed and tricky challenge because some, directly, present themselves announcing that if we see X it means that we are in such a way, and if we see Y, we are of this other.They analyze and classify the person who falls into the "Cheating" innocently.

Some of these reminiscent of the famous Rorschach test.Published in 1921, these are ten sheets with ink spots that appear as diffuse forms and without a clear definition.Many psychologists and even professional recruiters used to unravel the personality of those who have in front with a very simple question: "What do you see in this film?"

#thedress

# sorrynotsorry but I'm bringing this back.IT'S BLUE AND BLACK.The.# Dress.Is.# blueandblack.pic.twitter.com/OCrtxjVu0W

-Haley Clark (@haleyclark) April 4, 2017

#whiteandgold or #blackandblue was the surprising discussion that divided the world into two opposing and irreconcilable sides during 2015 .One of the most viral ilusionoptica cases in the short history of the Internet.We talked about the photo of a dress.A dress that some saw in white and gold and others in blue and black.

It all started when the photo of a dress that a guest was going to wear to a wedding was published on Tumblr.The dress was black and blue, but some in the photo saw it as white and gold .How was it possible? The photo began to be republished, to be retweeted...The witnesses did not agree on how the dress was.The "magic" of its mystery, which made some see it of one color or another, turned this dress into a milestone of the events that the Internet has given us.

The scientific explanation given by some experts was that the different opinions were due to the different perception that the human brain has when it comes to seeing a color according to factors such as the light received by that object.So, is humanity divided between those who see white and those who see blue...? A debate that is still in vogue today with a new protagonist, in this case, a bag that, again, seems to change color according to who looks at it.

That's why we love visual challenges.Challenges that test even what seems most obvious to us.

Image | Pixabay, Whereswally, Twitter

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