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Dad Challenges Internet To Solve His Kids’ Word Search Puzzle, They Can’t
A dad took to social media to challenge others to solve the word search his five-year-old son was struggling with, and he told Newsweek how he was utterly baffled when nobody could find the answer.
In a Reddit post shared under the handle u/LordBadgerFlaps, a father of one who asked to simply be referred to as Tom from Nottingham, set fellow users the seemingly easy task.
However, those attempting the word search soon realized it was anything but that.
There’s a very real, scientific reason why word puzzles remain such an enduring pastime to so many of us. In 2018, researchers from Goldsmiths, University of London in the U.K. used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to look closely at what happens in the brain when people solve word puzzles.
They found the part of the brain that generates the mood-enhancing chemical dopamine lights up when we complete a task of this kind.
Unfortunately, in this instance, people were getting deprived of their dopamine hit. What made that all the more frustrating was that, on the face of it, the task at hand seemed simple: all they needed to do was find the word “envy” to complete the puzzle for Tom and his son.
However, they soon encountered the same problems Tom did when he cast an eye on the puzzle while dining out with his family. You can look at the puzzle here:
“This was a wordsearch for kids to do in the restaurant Pizza Express,” he told Newsweek. “My five-year-old was trying to complete it, with a little help from his mom. He told us he couldn’t find ‘envy.’ We assumed he just couldn’t see it.”
At first they assumed, given his age, that he might have just missed it.
“So his mum takes the puzzle, has a look and can’t find it,” Tom said. “She tells me it’s not there. I say ‘of course it is, you must be missing it’ only to find it isn’t there.”
Tom was baffled. He sent a screenshot of the puzzle to his family but got nothing back, so turned to Reddit “fully expecting someone to point it out, and that we’d just missed it.”
But that didn’t happen either.
“Couldn’t find ‘envy’, but I did find ‘Jed’ in the bottom left section. Hope that helps!” one user wrote. “Is it intentionally missing to keep kids occupied for longer?” another asked.
A third confirmed it though, commenting: “Definitely a misprint. There are only five Y in there, and none of them can be used to form ENVY, the closest one is ENNY, guess it was supposed to be that one.”
Tom agreed that it was likely a “misprint or missed mistake” but didn’t bother mentioning it at the restaurant as “staff don’t have any control of corporate stuff.”
Newsweek did reach out to Pizza Express though, who confirmed it was indeed a mistake.
A Pizza Express spokesperson told Newsweek: “We are aware of the typo in the word search and the correction has been made ahead of the upcoming reprint.”
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