It was a big gaudy thing that caught my eye as soon as it scrolled into view, was obviously a maze, and mazes are designed to be solved. It took less than a second to solve, which was less time than it took to reorient my attention to the point in the text I was reading, and about 20 seconds before I reached the text “Don’t solve it yet” in my reading.
Maybe a spoiler cover with a more prominent “Here is a maze. Don’t solve it yet” above would have helped?
Oops! Too late! Way, way too late.
It was a big gaudy thing that caught my eye as soon as it scrolled into view, was obviously a maze, and mazes are designed to be solved. It took less than a second to solve, which was less time than it took to reorient my attention to the point in the text I was reading, and about 20 seconds before I reached the text “Don’t solve it yet” in my reading.
Maybe a spoiler cover with a more prominent “Here is a maze. Don’t solve it yet” above would have helped?