Answer: Rubber band stretched

What you're looking at

A rubber band is a simple but essential item found in almost every office, kitchen, and household drawer. You'll see them bundled around everything from rolled-up papers to bundles of vegetables at the grocery store, and they're used daily to keep things organized and held together.

When a rubber band is stretched to its limits and photographed in extreme close-up, the texture becomes almost unrecognizable. The wavy, ridge-like surface pattern becomes exaggerated, and the translucent quality of the rubber creates shadows and highlights that obscure its true identity. The tightness of the stretch distorts what we normally expect to see, making it surprisingly difficult to spot what should be a familiar object.

Look for regular, parallel ridge patterns and the slightly translucent quality typical of stretched rubber materials.

How players did

35 players made 40 guesses. It took 39 guesses before someone got it right.

Most common wrong guesses: terracotta pot, pumice block