Doodle a Droodle Today.
It’s harder than it looks!
Wait, what’s a Droodle?
This is a Droodle:
Confused? Intrigued? Great, let’s get into it!
‘Droodles’ were a syndicated visual riddle created by Roger Price back in 1953. Here he is with a whole book of them.
And here’s the caption (answer?) you needed for that one above.
Apparently the idea was that it was the kind of thing one could draw on a cocktail napkin to break the ice in the kind of bar in the 1950’s that had cocktail napkins. (And presumably a jazz band and Don Draper being horrible.)
The riddles became quite popular, and as well as spurring a book, were also turned into a TV show, which just proves how much easier it was pitching a concept for TV back then.
I still remember a primary school teacher drawing this one on the whiteboard during class…
