Comments on: How Many People Are In This Cartoon? (Illusion)

By: robert

robert — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:28:15 +0000

I think it’s further exacerbated by the fact that the MOVEMENT is actually in a cycle INSTEAD of back and forth. [back and forther lol]

By: robert

robert — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:27:06 +0000

forget Chinese water torture, just put this on!

By: clockwork

clockwork — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:44:58 +0000

forget it. my brain short circuited and melted. i have to just accept that i am way stupider than i thot.

By: odd man out

odd man out — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:39:01 +0000

the people who make these things are cruel. it is brain torture. i copied both pics onto powerpoint. i am going to experiment with manipulating the pics and try to get this figured out, dammit.

By: Ryan Cross

Ryan Cross — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:23:53 +0000

For reference, the “extra man” comes from the person on the bottom left.

You can think about this as 1 person = 1 head = 1 pair of feet. The person on the bottom left actually looses just a tiny piece of his hair (his head) during the swap. His tiny piece is enough to complete the corresponding other person, but not enough for most people to notice that he’s not “complete” any more.

This is further facilitated by the fact that all the other people are slightly less or more people between switches as Simes pointed out.

By: Simes

Simes — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:53:30 +0000

It only took me 40 minutes and some disassembly with Jasc’s Animation Shop to work this out!

If you number the people 1 to 13 then the major difference is a person number 6 appears / disappears. The minor differences are much more subtle. A number of people get shorter: some of the 12 people are taller than their counterparts in the 13 people. The 13th person – number 6 – is effectively made up of slices taken from others.

What an imaginative piece of work! It must have taken ages to put together, even after the initial idea. It is probably a work of genius.

By: jermaine

jermaine — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:23:49 +0000

How’s it going John, From what I can see it’s the top two guys that are making the numbers change. 13 and 12, but there’s more to it.

By: Andrew Croft

Andrew Croft — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:25:34 +0000

I’ve spent 10 mins looking at this, the only thing I can think, which may already be obvious is that the shoes are shaped like the top of their hair, and there are an extra pair of shoes somewhere behind one of them. But still I am confused!

By: Aaron Hall

Aaron Hall — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:16:42 +0000

This is sure to waste much time. I know I have already spent too much time looking at this, and I plan to come back later and figure it out. Great puzzle!

By: Travel Girl Eves

Travel Girl Eves — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:12:03 +0000

Where issss the extra guy coming from? It’s 3:09AM in CA rt now – I’m too tired to think…

By: gel beltran

gel beltran — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:31:58 +0000

this made my head hurt! I don’t wanna think where the extra person came from, I am just amazed how a simple image can be as painfully tough to think about.

By: Ben Pei

Ben Pei — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:32:01 +0000

Lol interesting..

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:34:01 +0000

I think it’s this: the only part of the person at the bottom left that moves it the very top of the hair, instead if half a person like the others. The hair is used to “complete” the person in all white in the bottom row. It makes sense when I watch the picture, let me know if this makes sense to anyone else. :)

By: marcus

marcus — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:53:07 +0000

Strat out with 12 and ends up with 13.

By: fas

fas — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:17:36 +0000

The extra guy comes in the second row. Not exactly from where but I think something to do with shifting of these people around. Hit print screen and observe both, tough though.