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Home / Fun Stuff / How Many People Are In This Cartoon? (Illusion)

How Many People Are In This Cartoon? (Illusion)

How Many People Are there? (Illusion)
John P.

June 13, 2009 By John P.

Please count the people below, wait for the picture to change then count them again. This is guaranteed to drive you crazy!

How Many People Are there? (Illusion)

How Many People Are there? (Illusion)

Where exactly did the extra guy come from?

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Comments

  1. Rachel says

    November 6, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT! YOU WANT TO WATCH THE SHOES OF THE HIGHER PEOPLE. GOOD LUCK! :D

  2. robert says

    March 27, 2012 at 10:28 pm

    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]

  3. robert says

    March 27, 2012 at 10:27 pm

    forget Chinese water torture, just put this on!

  4. clockwork says

    August 16, 2011 at 7:44 pm

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

  5. odd man out says

    August 16, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    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.

  6. Ryan Cross says

    July 7, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    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.

  7. Simes says

    April 25, 2010 at 5:53 am

    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.

  8. jermaine says

    July 12, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    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.

  9. Andrew Croft says

    July 12, 2009 at 5:25 am

    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!

  10. Aaron Hall says

    June 24, 2009 at 10:16 am

    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!

  11. Travel Girl Eves says

    June 24, 2009 at 5:12 am

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

  12. gel beltran says

    June 22, 2009 at 12:31 pm

    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.

  13. Ben Pei says

    June 19, 2009 at 11:32 pm

    Lol interesting..

  14. Dee says

    June 15, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    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. :)

  15. marcus says

    June 15, 2009 at 7:53 am

    Strat out with 12 and ends up with 13.

  16. fas says

    June 14, 2009 at 3:17 pm

    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.

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