Kominers’s Conundrums: An Emoji Hunt in Search of a Song
Our emoji are pretty small and heavily camouflaged, but there are lots of ways to start looking for them.
Ah, the thrill of the emoji hunt.
Photographer: Keystone/Hulton ArchiveIt would be easy to doomscroll away the final days of the presidential campaign. There are always more tweets, more news alerts, more polls. Is that really helping anything? What if there were a distraction -- maybe even a fun one -- that required real focus? We have what you're looking for -- or more precisely, something for you to look for. This week, we’re doing a modern take on the puzzles in the “I Spy” and “Where’s Waldo?” books with a new Conundrum co-conspirator: Bloomberg Opinion’s Instagram team. Unbeknownst to the feed’s followers, we’ve concealed four emoji in the posts of the past week.
The first emoji you’re looking for is in this post and looks like this:
The emoji are pretty small and heavily camouflaged, but there are lots of ways to start looking for them: You can scan the scene linearly from left to right and top to bottom. Alternatively, you can focus on unexpected color changes and unusual shapes. Or you can try to meta-game the problem -- where would be a good place to hide something without confusing people who don’t know about the Conundrum?