This card highlights a little known learning difficulty that is actually borderline physical disability, for it is Visual or Form Agnosia. The eyes are fine when tested, but the brain is affected in as much as it cannot recognise objects, faces, or shapes - and to fathom out this puzzle is quite beyond them.
The fault with their brains seem to mean that they can either see parts of the whole but not join them together to form a recognisable object - or that they can see the object entrely and well but cannot describe it in words. And whilst it is believed that most cases come from a physical cause like a stroke or disease there are cases which appear without those things happening, or even from the child begins to attempt to speak - and it is thought that eventually these will come to form a category all their own, classified under learning difficulties.
I threw this puzzle out as a teaser on our news feed, just as the picture and the fact that we were looking for words that began with the letters U, C, M, E, B, S C, (which made up the capital letters of the slogan "Use Clark`s Mile End Best Six Cord"). Because that was all it said on the front. Its kind of a teaser for top puzzlers. If you want to have a go at that, here is an enlargement of the front.
Stumped? Well now move on, for now I shall reveal that the actual items you need to search for are, as listed on the back of the card, are
- an urn
- a cannon
- a man
- an elephant
- a balloon
- a seal
- a cap
Now we have had quite a few guesses, and what follows are the results, to be read only after you are pulling your hair out.
- an urn - this flummoxed most of you but we think it is either upside down on top of the nearest rock between the tree and the rock edge - or it is the orange buoy floating with the flag (which therefore has the flagpole stuck down the top of the urn).
- a cannon - which is up the middle trunk of the tree, look for a round circle which is the wheel and the barrel is in white going upwards above it, with the carriage being formed by the junction of the two tree trunks
- a man - he is sitting on the nearest rock, his knees being at the top right edge, with his lower legs going down the edge of the rock and his upper legs along the top of it, his body being formed by the shadow of the rock coming above that, and his head the circular rock above the shade
- an elephant - is presumed to be facing backwards as the top rock, with its head in the same place as the man`s and with the branch forming its trunk, though someone else thinks it is in the same place but coming towards us, because between the rock and the head is a flapped ear.
the three that took the longest time to find, and have now been supplied, by reader Andrew Walters, (for which many thanks) were :
- a balloon - by which they mean a hot air balloon - this is at the top of the tree, on its side. If you follow the tree down from the top, the first branch off ends in the basket, then the balloon is a separate circular cloud.
- a seal - this is on the separate rock in the water, most of which is brown, but some of which is grey, and the grey bit is the seal.
- a cap - this is a jockey`s cap, with a button top, and it is upside down with the brim along the dark brown flat rock and the curving front of the cap being the space at the front of the same rick. Then the back of the cap balances between the back of the "seal" rock, and the inside of the cap is a darker section in the waves, starting at the base of the trees on "seal" rock and going up to join the top of the dark rock again
Mr. Walters also included a very helpful drawing of the last three, which is :
