I'm proud to announce that we have started the "Co-editors" beta project. As the title says, there will be some guest bloggers writing articles in the following weeks. The reason I started this, is because there are so many submissions and illusions on my hard drive, that I can't manage to post them all. This way we'll have multiple bloggers writing entires for this blog, which means more illusions for you. We already have our first guest blogger, but I'll keep him a secret until he properly introduces himself. For now this will only be a beta project, but if it works as I imagined (and there is no reason why it shouldn't), we'll have more and more posts each day, and probably promote these guest bloggers to full time co-editors.

I would like to take this opportunity invite you, if you are natural in English language, and have experience with blogger. Contact me if you are interested in becoming guest blogger. It's really simple. I'll give you material (illusions), and you are free to write whatever feels right (explanation, review of the photo etc.). You can also compose your own stuff. Let's see how this goes...

For today, I give you Mourits de Beer's "Count the Spots" illusion variation. As I said, it is variation of very famous optical illusion, that was used many times, even in some commercials. As simple as the picture below seems, it hides mysterious orange spots (in the grid crossings). Your assignment is to count them. Can you manage? This is what Mourits said: "Another illusion I somehow found while messing around. I'm sure that I don't need to explain".






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  1. Anonymous Kitty cat 

    Just count the red squares.
    i've seen like a 100 of these illusions, isnt there anything else?

  2. Anonymous Elliexx ANIMALS ROCK!! Abi xx's friend! 

    first comment?!
    um... i see the spots but wenever i try focusing my eyes on them they disappear! they're on most of the grid crossings but i dont no if they're on all of them.
    someone help me out?

  3. Anonymous Chuck75 

    that illusion again??? c'mon, this website is better than that!

  4. Blogger Nitai 

    182 orange dots.

  5. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Well, not 182, 181 because you dont see a dot on the point your focusing on.

    Well, actually 0 dots. Its just an illusion =P.

    P.S. yes i made it

  6. Anonymous Anonymous 

    i aer colourblind, this one doesn't work for me. interesting, but thats the only interesting thing about this recycled illusion. come on, give us some real stuff

  7. Anonymous Jan 

    Nitai si right. There are 182 dots, one of them in each cross. 13*14=182

  8. Anonymous Anonymous 

    uhm...I don't see any orange dots

  9. Blogger zRo.ToLeRaNcE 

    Why count something that's not there?

  10. Blogger Brian 

    maybe its all the drugs ive taken but i only see random dots scattered

  11. Anonymous DJ 

    Give 'em a break. If you don't like the published illusions - go find your own and submit them!

    I'm tired of the complaints - love the site, love the illusions - even the ones similar to others.

    Keep up the good work and good luck on the guest blogger/co-editor project!

  12. Blogger Jean 

    I don't feel so bad. I'm not the only one who doesn't see orange dots. Bur I am sure they are there, but where?

  13. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I don'[t get it. Are we counting the orange squares? I count 14 across and 15 down. When I look at any orange square, it doesn't disappear. What is supposed to happen?

  14. Blogger Alexandra 

    I don't think there are any spots at all.
    It's a game our eyes play.

  15. Blogger ctaf 

    there is no orange dot in this picture !!

  16. Anonymous Anonymous 

    boooring. come on you can do better than this. your website is great!!!!

  17. Anonymous Other 

    also, if u stare at the picture long enough and look somewhere blank, like the wall,ull see the picture in reverse, with cyan squares and red crossings

  18. Anonymous Anonymous 

    this gave me a headache. no more of these please.

  19. Anonymous Anonymous 

    they are red...¬¬ n btw..its 210..

  20. Anonymous Anonymous 

    there are 182 orange dots =)

  21. Anonymous Not At School Anymore 

    Wow thats alot of dots i would never have the patience needed to count all of those, yet for my exam i counted the ceiling tiles but thats a diffrent story!

  22. Blogger Vandigo 

    The illusion dots actually look green to me for some reason . . . I'm betting its just my vision being messed up and all though.

    You can't count the dots anyways, because they aren't there.

  23. Anonymous Anonymous 

    to tell you all the truth i see one...if i focus on the center then i see one really big in the middle like with only the 10 blocks in each corner not included in it.

  24. Blogger Sam 

    to tell you the truth i see only one big dot. when i focus in the middle all of it is orange except the 10 squares in each corner

  25. Anonymous Anonymous 

    there r none

  26. Anonymous weirdoux 

    yup............ there is no orange dots in that pic. it's red dots.

    focus is the right answer!!!

  27. Anonymous AK 

    there r 15 down and 9 across, therefore there are 135 dots.

  28. Anonymous AK 

    wait im confused orange dots or red squares?

  29. Blogger Woolf 

    ...I agree, there are exactly 182 orange dots, some of them are visible, some of them not, because they dissapear and then they are there again

  30. Anonymous Anonymous 

    What the hell? I don't get it.

  31. Blogger Rajiv 

    common stop calling this column as Might Optical Illusion ..how abt silly run of the mill illusion ....really disappointed with the kind of stuff thats coming up these days ..GUYS PLEASE REINVENT

  32. Anonymous Shauzia 

    195

  33. Blogger apalicious 

    i don't see any orange squares

  34. Anonymous i roxter 

    dude i dont see any orange dots!....

  35. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Oh dear oh dear, there are no orange spots. Why are people putting down how many they can count? I know how/why the illusion works but am not going to bother explaining the internal workings of the human eye and the signals it sends to the brain when confronted with an image like this. Yes I can see orange spots. But the question is how many orange spots are there? The answer is none. Live with it, deal with it!

  36. Anonymous Anonymous 

    99 orange spots

  37. Anonymous Anonymous 

    eh, Ive' seen this one. good site though.

  38. Anonymous Anonymous 

    i dont know if it's just me....but when i cross my eyes and stare at it, i feel VERY strange

  39. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Idk how, but I can see the spots, even patches of them, when I focus on them... Strange..

  40. Anonymous Anonymous 

    You can see the dots its just when you look at the orange dots they turn blue and when you dont look at them they are orange. If you dont see them then it means your stupid or color blind.

  41. Anonymous Anonymous 

    All I know is...is that there are 210 squares.

  42. Blogger amit 

    there are 182 dots....
    but all iilusion at a time u dont see all...
    its just maths involved with the illusion isnt it?




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