A runaway ingredient hidden amongst a pile of pecans has left Redditors puzzled.

Somewhere among the nuts is a single star anise, and if you can spot it in under 14 seconds you’ve got 20/20 vision.

A Reddit user posting under the Su0091 shared the devilishly difficult challenge on the Find The Sniper forum, challenging its 660,000 followers to “Find the half piece of star anise”.

The rich mix of angles and shadows make it really tricky to pick out the spice, the its similar colour only adding…