Twin leaders puzzle Poles

Published March 6, 2007

WARSAW, March 5: Poles have finally been given a political game they enjoy: an online test in which they have to spot the difference between the country's identical twin leaders, President Lech Kaczynski and his prime minister brother Jaroslaw.

The aim of the game, available on www.cda.pl/gry-online/3/kaczki.php, is to identify either Lech or Jaroslaw in each of 20 pictures of the power twins as they flash up on the screen.

Jaroslaw is the older of the two by 45 minutes, although it's hard to tell.

There are 10 pictures of the president and 10 of the prime minister.

But the creators of the “Do you recognise your Kaczynskis?” game assure visitors to the site that it is “not as easy as you might think”.

The squat, round-faced brothers are so alike that even close work colleagues have been known to get them mixed up.

A tip for the uninitiated: Lech has a mole on his nose and left cheek, while Jaroslaw's face is fairly mole-less.—AFP

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