Comments on: Irish Leprechauns Optical Illusion

By: AJ Lopez

AJ Lopez — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:19:23 +0000

I just looked at the extra leprechaun and found every part of it from a previous one. It took forever, but I managed. (Probably doesn’t make any sense!) xD

By: ashley

ashley — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:52:13 +0000

If you look at the seventh leperichaun part of his” dress” falls into the bottom portion, now look at the bottom banner and look at how the character is different. Now find the character in the top banner that is the same and you’ll see that in the bottom his” dress” doesn’t reach the bottom. Leaving an extra :) hope that makes sense!

By: moemoe

moemoe — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:23:42 +0000

it’s just one leprechaun’s face divided into two. easy

By: Denilson

Denilson — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:53:23 +0000

Another (very good) explanation of the trick:
http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001258.html

By: MossCow

MossCow — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 09:30:44 +0000

Wow. Even after examining the helpful link that explains how this works step-by-step, I was still completely baffled. (“But, there’s an extra one without there *being* an extra one!”) Then I got to sit and feel my brain rearrange itself until I understood. Very, very good show. I like this one.

By: Liana

Liana — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:12:42 +0000

uh.. i don’t get it

By: Nichole

Nichole — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:45:23 +0000

Second photo – last column of leppies, the first or top leppy has moved. All of them have new parts BUT since this particular Leprechaun no longer has a bottom half he appears to be an addition… notice that in the top photo one leprechaun doesnt appear to have any part of him in the top half of the photo where as one doesnt appear to have a bottom portion so when they are newly matched up there is a place for the spare part to go leaving one leprechaun without a bottom half, adding a 15th leprechaun into the photo… it really isnt that hard, people are looking at the whole picture and not the one single leprechaun… look at THE ONE leprechaun and you should be able to figure it out…

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:29:05 +0000

In the third group of leprechauns, the one at the top, doesn’t need any feet at all. So when it was transferred to the last group of leprechauns, which only has 2, it made the number increase. And the two pieces at the top of the picture is NOT equal. At the end of the smaller piece, it has no third leprechaun or no leprechaun at the top. And the smaller piece doesn’t cover the former position of that leprechaun.If that smaller piece covered the former position of that leprechaun, the number would not increase.

By: ayana

ayana — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:25:58 +0000

if you look on the right on the bottom pic one is missing.

By: UnIcOrN

UnIcOrN — Sun, 02 May 2010 16:05:58 +0000

OnE Is NoT A FuLl LePrEcHaUn @_@

By: Jez

Jez — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:35:43 +0000

-_- I’m not even gonna bother trying to figure it out.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:33:57 +0000

My best explanation for this is that when you print it out and cut out the pieces, one of the elves (the 6th one) is mostly whole on the bottom, but a fraction of his hair is on the top. So those two parts are said to make the whole elf. When you rearrange the top pieces and count again, look at the 6th elf, his hair is kinda missing and there’s a foot there. Although you count this as a whole elf because that’s exactly what it looks like at first, the top part of him is still missing and belongs with another elf

By: Manish Antal

Manish Antal — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:01:09 +0000

Guys…in the lower banner look at the the 2nd row from your right, the dudue sitting in the middle lane has appeared from no where adding the 1 extra.Problem solved ;) however, if you start looking at the diffrences between the 2 banners, there are many! Enjoy the tease..

By: Random Freak

Random Freak — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:04:01 +0000

and (adding to my 1 one) when you point to the heads, make sure you point to where they’ve changed to, not their lower half, which is the same.

By: Random Freak

Random Freak — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:02:33 +0000

Its because the 14th guy on the bottom pic has no middle… well its really hard to explain… take you fingers and point to the heads of all the leprecauns… youll find the answer… or… another explenaition is that there were three heads on the little strip and four heads on the long strip so when they got changed, it made an extra one (if you cut the first one where the line is, then you have five bottoms where the short strip would be, and eight where the long is).