Cruise passengers go wild hiding rubber ducks on ships in viral game of hide-and-seek

Travelers onboard cruise ships astir the satellite are taking a caller attack to souvenirs by bringing — and leaving — rubber ducks astir boats. 

The inclination has radical purchasing  rubber ducks and hiding them successful spots astir cruise ships. Over the past twelvemonth alone, TikTok videos garnering thousands of views amusement users hiding and uncovering ducks like it's a game.

In 1 Facebook group, named "Cruising Ducks," which has much than 284,000 members, the inclination is described arsenic a "cute and entertaining mode to person a blast connected cruises and to brighten others' days."

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Reports accidental that a young miss named Abby Davis started the Easter-egg-like thought — and it has since taken off. 

Cruise vessel travelers are taking rubber ducks onboard and hiding them successful an online crippled of fell and spell seek.  (iStock)

The Facebook radical explains, "Our extremity is to spot however acold our ducks will travel and wherever their travel mightiness instrumentality them. Keep oregon hide, you decide, but delight station your ducks' travels present truthful everyone tin enjoy."

Members are past asked to station a photograph of their rubber duck onboard a vessel and to specify which cruise enactment they are on. 

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In the past month, astir 3,500 posts person been featured connected the Facebook page. 

Players online person posted photos and fig counts of however galore ducks they've collected connected the travel — some upwards of 100 ducks.  (iStock)

One idiosyncratic posted a photograph of their children, writing, "Kids came backmost with 20ish ducks. They loved uncovering them! Carnival Dream, September 21-29."

Another idiosyncratic posted a photograph of their 113 ducks recovered connected the Carnival Cruise Lines Jubilee successful September, saying they had 5 "active hunters" connected the vessel and brought implicit 400 to fell themselves. 

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The inclination has made its mode to Reddit arsenic well, with 1 traveler posting connected the "r/royalcaribbean" subreddit, saying they paid for a transportation on conscionable for their rubber duckies. 

While connected board, cruisers tin station a photograph of their duck and the vessel they're connected to a Facebook leafage to play the game.  (iStock)

Reddit users took to the comments to measurement successful connected the offbeat trend, with 1 idiosyncratic writing, "I hatred to beryllium a killjoy, but there’s truly nary crushed for it. Just spell connected the cruise and bask what’s already there."

Another idiosyncratic explained that hiding and uncovering ducks connected the vessel was a amusive enactment for their kids connected oversea days erstwhile the vessel didn’t halt astatine ports.

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"My girl works connected the Utopia of the Seas and loves uncovering these! When her declaration finishes, she plans to fell each the ducks she has collected astir the ship," different Reddit idiosyncratic commented. 

A crippled of hide-and-seek with ducks has taken implicit cruise ships, and passengers are sharing photos of their squeaky finds online. (iStock)

Cruising Ducks besides has its ain enactment of rubber ducks that tin beryllium purchased to instrumentality onboard cruise ships.

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For anyplace from $14 to $26, customers tin acquisition antithetic types of themed ducks — Dorothy, Glinda the Good Witch, "The Godfather" and adjacent Donald Trump. 

Several theories online assertion that immoderate cruise ships discourage guests from hiding ducks connected board.

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Fox News Digital reached retired to Cruising Ducks, Carnival Cruise Lines, Disney Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean for comment.