Have you seen that? I bet you can’t find the hidden octopus

EGYPT – Remember the “Where’s Waldo” books? The first one came out at the end of the 1980s and was an absolute hit with me and my friends. We spent hours looking through the detailed illustrations and admiring all of author Martin Handford’s crazy action films.

Finding Waldo was usually easy, but finding other hidden objects wasn’t so easy. Books, bones, scrolls, and other things buried in the Waldo books haunted me for years, and some of them I still haven’t found.

But the hardest part of all was the page that was covered with hundreds of individual portraits, and you had to find the page that was repeated twice. There are support groups that help anyone who has struggled with this side of things over the years.

I actually thought of old Waldo when I came across this underwater video. Try it and see how long it takes you to spot the octopus.

The poster explains that the people behind the camera were diving in Egypt and thought they had noticed something lurking on the coral below. Was it a stonefish? Maybe Waldo himself? No. It turned out to be a beautiful and secretive octopus.

I can’t remember any Where’s Waldo books that featured a hidden octopus, but it would have been an excellent thing for Handford to sneak in somewhere.