Difference Detective Written on November 20, 2008, by Zack.
One of the environments I was responsible for in Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy featured a “Spot the Difference” arcade machine that rewarded the player with tokens for correctly identifying differences between two similar images. Hence, the game’s rating nearly got docked because we were supposedly encouraging gambling. But corrupting the youth was only a secondary objective for that puzzle. More important were the images themselves.
I went into designing the images with one goal: make them look as much as possible like they came out of Highlights. And I think I hit it dead on, toot toot toot. In retrospect, however, the Spot the Differences in Highlights looked terrible. I probably should’ve picked a better goal.
Anyway, here’re four of the better-looking images. Guess the 12 differences in each images correctly and I’ll send you cat litter (used).
All the images in this post, © Copyright Her Interactive, Inc.
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Your panda looks a lot like your corgi.
Shark:
1. Duck’s direction
2.Water splash on back of shark
3. Number of gills on shark
4. Extra tuft of grass in foreground
5. Extra bottom tooth
6. Number of “holes” in water dropping from right fin
7. Extra spot on floaty
8. Space between goldfish and water hose
9. Direction of water hose spout
10. Lower slat in fence
11. Crease on the side of shark’s snout
12. Missing crab on the kiddy pool
P.S. Please keep your cat litter.
Amber, YOU ARE CORRECT!
Panda
- 6-up vs. 8-up
- TV Antenna knobby-end
- Pull-string for overheard lamp
- Turn-knob for floor lamp
- Panda teeth
- Panda toes on her “right” foot
- Frills on throw on couch
(Brought to you by knob)
Shark:
(1)Rubber duck position change
(2)Splash of water near fence
(3)2 side gill things instead of 3
(4)Change of hose positon
(5)Less red prints on yellow kiddie pool
(6)Tuft of grass removal
(7) Shark nose dissapears
(8) Missing tooth
(9) Missing spot on lochness safety innertube
I’m done. Can’t find no more.
Oh. I just read Ambers again and realized it was for the shark one. Nevermind(Popular CD title of Seattle grunge band…you should check them out).
James and Nathan, I’m sorry, you both get incompletes for this assignment.
For some reason I thought I read I needed to find seven, not twelve. Well, here are the last five for the Panda:
- Spot on the back of the TV
- Panda’s left ear is perked
- Chip/cookie bag is full/empty
- Seashell curl on couch’s arm
- The remote is further up the girls hand
Man. Nathan, you could have cheated with Amber’s entry. Copy+paste for credit.
James, YOU ARE CORRECT! Okay, two more images, people, let’s see some hustle out there!
Since no one else is; The Moon Picnic:
1. missing hamburger
2. spatula slats
3. missing star
4. missing crater
5. rover window rounded vs flat
6. missing mushroom in salad
7. missing door hinge
8. missing “racing” stripe on rover
9. visible hemisphere on Earth
10. missing sticker (?) on window
11. missing satellite dish prong
12. missing bow on little girl’s helmet
Sounds good, Dan! Anyone going to solve the butterfly puzzle? It’s probably the hardest one posted…
1. Missing Butterfly
2. Missing tuft of grass near mothers shoe
3. Missing yellow spot on butterfly
4. Missing small bee
5. Upside-down butterfly
6. Another missing butterfly
7. Sky color reversal
8. Missing headband for young girl
9. Missing marks on mothers net
I can’t do it. Another incomplete.
C’mon, Nathan! I believe in you! You can do it!
this is my favorite post for this web sight to date.
the images are awesome, and FUN!
nice work.
The final three for the butterflies:
10) There’s a circle thing in the dirt on the left one that’s not on the right
11) Missing tuft on the bush near mother’s armpit on the left one
12) Bugthing in the jar on the right has an extra leg
and I didn’t find the sky color thing, but two butterflies are reversed, which I counted as one of my 12.
Annnnd Elyse gets the final, 2-month-old bag of cat litter! Congrats! Tsk tsk, Nathan, that could have been yours…