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November 11, 2007 by Vurdlak | Share  

Mad Scientists Soccer Team IllusionHy people! I was away for few days, thus no illusion has been posted since Friday. I’m back to update the site, and share this funny-looking illusion with you. The Mad Scientist in this animated gif composed a paranormal soccer team. There are 11 players available, but when the gif changes there are only 10. Where has the extra man disappeared? If I’m right, this optical illusion is a modification from original “Extra Man” illusion, as well as similar to Leprechauns Illusion.

Just to clear some things, optical illusion Facebook application, that some of you have added to their facebook profile, pulls the latest illusion from this blog, and displays it on your Facebook profile. Sometimes I miss updating illusions on this site, so it may happen that you get same illusion two days in a row. Please bear with me, as I’m trying to post them daily.

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  1. Anonymous says:

    Football (known in the US only as soccer) is the most popular sport in the world. I think that only in the US that is not true. Being so, anyone in the world (but Americans) know since they are kids that a footbal team is comprised of 11 players.

  2. Anonymous says:

    It doesn’t line up right…hmm…

  3. Anonymous says:

    umm.. theirs twlve after it switches….

  4. Anonymous says:

    I’ve figured it out! The guy with the black shirt at the top right loses part of his shoe and moves over to the left side. He only moves over, he doesn’t put his top half over another bottom half. At the same time, the coach puts on his shoe. The guy with the black shirt is the extra guy that makes you count 12 players instead of 11. Also, the guy at the bottom left loses his hair and doesn’t gain a new one. But I don’t think that does anything to change the number of players.

  5. Anonymous says:

    I took the image with most players and pasted it into Graphic Converter on my Mac. I then selected each man in turn starting at left with the one with the lowest feet and working upwards through the feet position heights. Each man was then pasted into a new image plane separated by a fixed distance – lowest on the left – the ‘Prof.’ on the right.

    Now if I select the upper half of this new image from just above the left man’s head and just below the ‘Profs.’ feet and slide it one man position to the left it all becomes clear.

    I have the image but I am not sure how to post it. It is only 700 * 150 pixels.

    A very clever sequence – easier to unscramble than to conceive and build in the first place.

    Bob J.

  6. Anonymous says:

    Its because the player (top middle on the first screen top left on the second screen) uses the mad scientist feet! He doesn’t replace another players feet but the mad scientists!!!

    take that you devils!

  7. Anonymous says:

    i kno how it works the persons feet gets cut off and then the lay takes it watch the kid on the opposite side of the lady his feet look weird

  8. Sergio says:

    It’s quite simple, in the end: you start with 11 “long” guys and end up with 12 “short” guys. Only you don’t notice because only a little bit from the original 11 is missing. The giveaway in all these illusions is that in the configuration with one extra guy (or banknote, or leprechaun, call it what you will) one of the guys is missing a top, and one is missing a bottom. All the others are missing a different part in the middle, but small enought not to be noticeable.

  9. Anonymous says:

    The guy in the blue suit changes his head position!

  10. Anonymous says:

    Watch the coach… he is replaced by another player when it switches to twelve

  11. Anonymous says:

    Essentially, one guy loses half of his legs and gains a little black line from the professor’s shoes to replace them and he looks OK. (In the original picture, he’s the 6th from the right, counting all players).

    The Fourth player from the left loses most of his guts and gets chucked straight onto a pair of legs so he looks OK.

    Finally, the third player from the left loses most of his head and gets a little bit of black lines to make him look OK, the 7th player from the left donates that little bit, and he gets reimbursed for his hair by the guy on the far left (who doesn’t get his hair replaced).

    All of these references refer to the picture in which there are only 11 players (not when there becomes 12 players).

    As annoying an answer as it is, there really is no creating any new player, it’s just that a few of them are chopped up a bit so their parts can look OK elsewhere. To try it, copy the images, and mark each of the body parts with a particular color dot and then do the transformation and you can see who gets who’s body parts.

  12. Anonymous says:

    i get it know a whole person moves from the other side:D

  13. Anonymous says:

    I have 1 thing to say……………………………………………………………….COOL!!!

  14. #66 says:

    Most of you got it wrong. Some of you think they got it right but didn’t. Some got it but couldn’t really explained it… #60 got it right but doesn’t tell you how to do it.
    My indepth explaination (I even tell you how to make your own ^^)

    Facts:
    Original frame: 11 players + 1 coach
    Modified frame: 12 players + 1 coach

    Where is the extra player?
    At the top middle left. In the original frame there’s a blank spot then a player.

    What?
    Every player are giving a bit of themselves to form the extra one. Some have noticed that the player are “smaller” in the second frame and that on the bottom left loses a part of his head but doesn’t get one back… Well that’s only the start! If you folow where it goes, then wait on that player for its original piece to come back then follow where his top goes and so on, you’ll notice that every time the piece thats moving is getting bigger and in the end you will find the spot where one appears.

    How?
    Simply by the way they are positioned. To create a drawing/picture like this you have to start by cuting the paper first. Cut in half horizontally and anywhere vertically on the top half. Position the first guy anywhere at the bottom half with a little piece of his head being on the top half. Invert the 2 top pieces of paper and now draw a new guy from the head top (his feet level should be higher). Put the paper bacj in it’s original state then complete the head a little taller. Move the paper again and draw the bottom from where the piece is and so on…

    Took me some time to figure it out, but I couldn’t sleep without finding how this was possible :)

    #66

  15. Anonymous says:

    the guy on the very right goes to the middle and the guy right next to the scientist takes his spot so those two lines stay the same(total two) the two next to the guy at the right move to the two lines at the left adding 1 to each row so they go from 2 to 3 each. one from the line with 3 in the first part is taking and in the second part 2 are added on the left

  16. Anonymous says:

    look at the referees feet someone is made from that

  17. illusionspoiler says:

    look. the person drew a line.
    he put 12 people on the line, each getting a little higher as hew went to the right. the he carefully placed them in a rectangle and made the two cuts. look it up in google.(1213 solution)

  18. Suicidal 'Ling says:

    MM ;D
    my favourite cartoon book organisation of math w00ts

  19. alexandra says:

    HEY the big guys head changes directions

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