From The Dress to the 'extinction effect': the internet obsession with brain teasers

Mesmerizing online puzzles and optical illusion have been widely debated and shared across the internet. The latest craze: figure out which box contains the car

From widely shared optical illusions and brain teasers to the strange, blue-and-black phenomenon that was The Dress, it's clear that the internet is infatuated with puzzles.

The latest which seems to have captured collective attention is about choosing which box contains a car. Posted on Monday by the Daily Mail, the puzzle was found on Brilliant.org, a problem-solving site.