A #VisualPuzzle for #WhatsItWednesday. I think you will find this isn’t what it looks like.

@cliffordbeshers So it’s not water droplets on a granite countertop

@cliffordbeshers Is it drops of oil on a stone skillet?

@Portufraise Nope, water, not oil. In the kitchen, though.

Also, I rate this puzzle as hard.

@cliffordbeshers Water condensation on cookies and cream ice cream?

@cliffordbeshers drop of water on an eggshell?

@pimoore The droplets are not condensation. No ice cream.

@klandwehr Not an eggshell, but something that color and more permanent.

@cliffordbeshers Not granite, but is the material Corian, made to look like granite?

@cliffordbeshers Or maybe an enameled coating on something?

@cliffordbeshers Drops of water on spilled coffee grounds?

@fgtech Not so fancy. Just a plain, cream-colored material where you might find water.

@fgtech Ah, I spoke too soon. Yes, classic kitchen enamel.

@pimoore Not coffee grounds, and you have causality reversed, but you are getting warm.

@cliffordbeshers Water droplets on potting dirt on the counter?

@pimoore Drops of water (ice?) on frozen bread.

@pimoore Not quite a counter, not potting soil, and you have the order of operations wrong.

@odd There is bread involved, in a way, but not frozen.

@cliffordbeshers Stone (granite?) cutting board with water drops and bread crumbs.

@gregmoore There is no granite. There are bread crumbs. Can you guess where the bread crumbs might have come from? Hint: you answered a previous quiz with relevant info.

@cliffordbeshers This was a hard one. Are there a wet type of cake that made the crumbs? 🍰

@odd Something more delicious than cake!

@cliffordbeshers Ice cream don’t make crumbs!

@cliffordbeshers I didn’t see the solution, Clifford. I’m curious, what was it?

@odd @gregmoore @pimoore @fgtech @klandwehr @Portufraise @tinyroofnail

Well, thanks for an invigorating round. As I said, I expected this to be hard, but you all seem to enjoy banging your heads against the wall, and I think you did amazingly well.

The surface is the cream-colored enamel of my kitchen sink. The water droplets were naturally there when I brought over my pizza stone and rubbed all the burnt crumbs and semolina flour off it and into the sink. If you look closely, you can see charred crumbs floating on top of the droplets.

I glanced down and wondered how my sink had become granite, because the illusion was so compelling.

@cliffordbeshers @odd @gregmoore @fgtech @klandwehr @Portufraise @tinyroofnail What a great challenge this one was, well played! I was banging my head trying to figure out what those physical bits were when I zoomed in on the pic. Conveniently, we’re already having pizza for dinner, otherwise this would’ve left me jonesing. 😆

@cliffordbeshers You really made it hard this time! I was convinced that I was looking at bread, not enamel or stone. Interesting as always though, thanks for the challenge!

@pimoore I would have never guessed that. Great puzzle

@cliffordbeshers Great puzzle, as usual. Thank you!

I think some would debate you on the idea that pizza is more delicious than cake… 🍕vs 🍰

No flame wars please. 🔥

@fgtech bad pizza < cake < excellent pizza < ice cream

I am Uglúk. I have spoken.

@cliffordbeshers 😂 Okay, I think I’m with you once you split pizza into those two categories. There is lots of bad pizza in the world, and cake has to be pretty messed up to be bad cake.

@fgtech Honestly, I'd put mediocre cake below bad pizza. I'd take the cheese over the sugar.

@cliffordbeshers It’s good to know your priorities. I like cheese, too, but if forced to live the rest of my life with no added cheese vs no added sugar, I think I’d have to keep the sugar and leave the cheese. (That said, too much sugar is one thing that can ruin a cake.)

@Ddanielson I figured I might be in the minority on this. I have seen lots more photos of pizza on micro.blog than photos of cake.