A woman who was left baffled by a seemingly impossible “spot the difference” picture puzzle may have finally got the answers she sought.
Puzzles can be a source of frustration, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In 2023, a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition found that people who were angry performed better than those who were neutral when it came to facing a challenging puzzle.
That didn’t necessarily prove the case for Katlyn Gibson, a woman from Alberta, Canada, who took to Reddit recently after admitting she had been struggling to finish a “spot the difference” puzzle since Thanksgiving.
Gibson’s puzzling problem started in her place of work.
“I help young people, mostly between ages of 9 and 16, in a short-term program to help them get stable and get the support they need to integrate into a family setting (i.e. foster care) or continue with group …