Brain teasers are fun to solve. Many brain teasers leave people stumped, but the satisfaction of solving them outweighs the mental work they often take to solve them. Are you someone who likes solving brain teasers? Then here’s a brain teaser that has many people scratching their heads on Reddit. This puzzle is simple, but very interesting. It challenges you to find the word “Fixed”.
The caption for the puzzle shared on Reddit reads, “A little one-word word search.” The image posted shows various letters written in a grid. Your task in this word search game is to find the word “Fixed.”
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Since being shared, this brain teaser has garnered nearly 600 upvotes and counting. Shares have prompted even more comments from people.
Some people admitted defeat and revealed they had been searching for the answer in the comments section, while others shared their answers and boasted about how easily they solved the difficult puzzles.
What did Reddit users say about this brain teaser?
“Haha, am I the only one who didn’t read below and looked for ‘Fedex’?” joked one Reddit user. Another added, “I tried looking for defied.”
A third expressed, “All I could think of was ‘Idefix’, the German/French name for Dogmatix, the dog from the Asterix comics,” while a fourth commented, “I’m also a software engineer, and I scanned X (which I think is the least common) and then lined it up with I and E, which are in the middle of the word, limiting the direction you can go towards the edge of the grid. I found it quickly after that, but still had to scan the grid twice.”
A fifth person revealed the location of the word, writing, “Column 1, row 7. It extends to the right.”
What do you think of this brain teaser? Did it take you a while to find the word “fixed” or was it easy?
