The student thinks that he can where's waldo their way to the answer
Now, does it mean it's gonna be a cinch or a sisyphean task?
Again, if I add a little detail,
The student thinks that he can where's waldo their way to the answer
by using the words in the passage.
The situation is that a student has to answer a question after reading a passage, trying to figure out whether the options match verbatim with some sentence in the passage.
Best Answer
"Where's Waldo" is a game where you have to scan a sketch of a crowd, looking for a particular person.
By using where's-waldo as a verb, I think the writer means the student is not going to read the passage, but just scan over it, looking for a few words that resemble the question.