Comments on: Mad Scientist’s Soccer Team Illusion

By: Jez

Jez — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:13:49 +0000

I’ve been staring at it so long my eyes are starting to hurt. I still can’t figure it out and everyone’s explanation dosen’t make sense. :(

By: alexandra

alexandra — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:42:38 +0000

HEY the big guys head changes directions

By: Suicidal 'Ling

Suicidal 'Ling — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:26:24 +0000

MM ;D
my favourite cartoon book organisation of math w00ts

By: illusionspoiler

illusionspoiler — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:22:23 +0000

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)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:33:00 +0000

look at the referees feet someone is made from that

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:58:00 +0000

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

By: #66

#66 — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:44:00 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:48:00 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:54:00 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:34:00 +0000

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.