HIGHLIGHTS MAGAZINE'S SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR 'HIDDEN PICTURES' PAGE (JD)

-Hidden objects should not touch each other or be clumped together.

-There must be at least twelve (12) items hidden in every hidden picture submission.

-A good hidden object is an optical illusion.  It is something that appears to be something else.

-Avoid abstractions that readers might have a hard time identifying like “textual criticism” or “pain.”

-Do not hide pairs of raisins as they can be mistaken for something else altogether.

-Do not hide any objects in the rear end or crotch area of any character or animal.

-But if you do that, send them directly to me, the editor.  I’ve got a file.  It’s awesome.

-Do not hide a name or your own name in the puzzle accompanied by “rules” or “rulez.”  “Rulz!” though, IS acceptable.

-“Open bear mouth in the shape of an apple” – been done to death, people.

-Please no hidden scatological references. They MUST be in plain sight.

-Do not hide “tumors” inside of characters.  This is upsetting and they may be mistaken for “calcium deposits.”

-If the hidden items are meant to serve as symbols so as to “awaken sleeper cells,” please include a standard, boilerplate, written apology to be used in case of resulting jihad.

-“Donut as the bottom of the bucket” – just put it in there with bear-mouth-apple.

-Every Highlights Magazine Hidden Pictures puzzle is to have the “mouth and tongue” Rolling Stones emblem hidden somewhere within it.

-If the main picture is of an airport security screening station, then hiding a balloon within a character is just confusing (hidden item? Part of the picture?).  Unacceptable.

-Hiding Jews in an attic might be a good route for some of you first-timers.

-Do not hide issues of Disney Magazine For Kids in your puzzle.

-Do not “hide” characters’ pants.

-“Pencil in between the fence rails” – sheesh, people.  Un-hide your heads from your anuses.

Comments

[bobby]

This smells and tastes exactly like 3CT should smell and taste. My senses are titillated! I love this one a lot.

[Shane]

Bravo Jiff!

I thought of you guys when my wife brought a madlib book on our roadtrip last weekend to Corpus - o how fun the kid's books can be.

By the way - any of you into the Sudoku Number Puzzle thing?

[John]

Out-freakin'-standing. My senses are titillated, too. Course that has nothing to do with me liking to write words with "tit" in them.

[Taran (male)]

This is not the first time that the phrases "textual criticism" and "pain" have appeared together.

[Jiff]

By the way, this one: "Do not hide any objects in the rear end or crotch area of any character or animal" is from their actual "submissions guideline" page.

[bobby]

I once found the face of George Washington in the anus of a squirrel.

[Tim]

Greatnessing.

[mietwagen]

Sehr gute Seite. Ich habe es zu den Favoriten.

[stevie]

ich ben ein Stevener

[bobby]

Nice work, Gallant.

[bobby]

Big plans for the new year, HeathDN?