Showing posts with label puzzle pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label puzzle pictures. Show all posts

Saturday, January 17, 2026

who has been stealing my cigars—it surely is a puzzle

ARNOT ART GALLERY, Star-Gazette (Elmira, New York), 17 Dec 1918, p. 4—

The Arnot Art Gallery will be open this evening from 7 to 9 o'clock and every afternoon during the remainder of this week from 2 to 5 o'clock. Two hundred and sixty-six visitors called at the gallery Sunday to see the color concealment or camouflage pictures. They are very interesting and some of them will puzzle you a little to find the hidden bird. The principles of camouflage are embodied in these pictures.…

Can you find the cigar thief in the Victorian-era puzzle picture above?

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Monday, December 29, 2025

can you find a camouflaged cat / an embedded figure

Above Can you find the camouflaged cat? A Victorian-era puzzle picture from The Strand Magazine.

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Roland Pertwee, "Camouflage" in The Strand Magazine, May 1917, p. 502—

For the benefit of those who may not be acquainted with what camouflage means, it might be truthfully described as a thin veil drawn over great events.

There are endless varieties of camouflage and endless uses to which it may be put. A great white road is concealed from the enemy lines by a hedge of thinly-plaited twigs—camouflage, An observation point hidden in the heart of a haystack—camouflage. A mighty gun masked by an awning of fishermen’s nets sprinkled with dead leaves—camouflage. A corpse brought in from No Man’s Land and replaced by a live man, who watches what is toward in the Hun trenches—again camouflage. But perhaps the subtlest variety of all is the kind that men and women devise to screen their real emotions from each other and the world.
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