I feel bad, but this one took me 20 years to figure out.

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[AdamAperture]

The worst poker face.

[Jdts7]

Took me a sec, lol

[BronyWriter]

4989484
I don't think it's his poker face that's the problem.

[Marcthelightspark2004]

I don't get it.

[Johnny Walker]

4989484
I read that hint and then read the comic again. For a simple concept, you don't pick it up unless you take in the entire picture. Selective attention is real.

[Jlargent]

4989486 Well he did catch a tiger by the tail.

[Johnny Walker]

4989489
Look at the tail, especially the 3rd panel.

[Marcthelightspark2004]

4989493
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!! Now I know how you feel BronyWriter.

[mew3]

Don't feel to bad.
One thing I never got from Calvin and Hobbes as a kid was every time Calvin always talked into some deep philosophy discussion with Hobbies, while in his little wagon, going at screaming 900 MPH speeds! Then just to crash on the last panel, just as they conclude their debate.

[Johnny Walker]

4989486
4989494
Count the number of ball passes people in the white shirts do to the ball.

[Tethered-Angel]

Oooh! I thought this whole time it was because he was playing both sides of the game.

[Inugami]

DEAR LORD
okay i got THREE interpretations about WHAT the joke was
The First was that because Hobbs is 'imaginary' Calvin Knows what hand he has...but that wasn't it
The Second is that Calvin Can see the cards because they are facing His direction... i was fairly certain because the card Do have a Black and white side; the first panel shows that the cards have that.
The THIRD which is the actual thing is A SECRET

[Pickleless]

...OH I GET IT.

[Olden Bronie]

The tail was the tell!

[Flint-Lock]

Yeah, took me a while too.

[Pithos]

....................ha

[Cadberry]

...I don’t get it

[BronyWriter]

4989780
Third panel.

And yeah, don't feel bad. Like I said: it took me 20 years. I've been reading C&H since I was in Kindergarten.

[The Spy of the Tiger]

This reminds me of a riddle a friend of mine told me that took him and his brother an entire year to figure out. The riddle went something like this: "An old retired sea captain went to a diner and sees albatross soup on the menu. He remarks to the waitress that the only time he had albatross soup was when him and his crew were stranded on a desert island, and he quite enjoyed the taste. Feeling nostalgic, he orders it, but after taking a single bite, he immediately stands up and commits suicide. Why?" Like I said, my friend and his brother took a year to figure this out. I told it to another friend and it took him like a minute to figure out that the answer was that the soup he ate on the island was not albatross soup, but the remains of his fallen crew, and he killed himself because he enjoyed the taste of human flesh.