Can you find the fault in these two vintage puzzle cards? I admit it is much easier when you know what you are looking for, but this time I haven’t even a clue what the real question should be. I’m really lousy at spotting illusions. It is just that I adore posting those that puzzle me the most. If I see the answer in the first second, somehow I dislike posting those kind of images. Perhaps these two cards are really simple, perhaps the illusion is terrible… but what can I say, I haven’t spotted anything weird in them! Looking forward to your comments! Check some of our previous puzzle cards if you like this.
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Speaking as an engineer, both constructions are going to collapse, the first one because there are no main beams (architrave, epistyle) on the two upper windows. The second one because the key stone is upside down.
I agree with Al on the keystone being upsdie down and about the windows, however I think the roof needs to be shingled from the bottom up, or else it will leak.
The “builder” is wrong because you tile from the gutter upwards, not the other way around (think about how the roof tiles overlap). In the second one, the stream disappears beyond the bridge (perhaps it is just a pond).
the Key Brick on the bridge is upside down. that way it cannot support the bridge, instead it will fall down and the bridge will collapse
the man in the first pic has a tool box on his shoulder but both arms down….
pretty obscure, but still interesting…
Well for a start, W.H.Smith isn’t a builder…
In the bridge card the mands feet are too short. Thats the only thing i spotted in it.
In the first pic, along with the other comments, the little window on the left side appears to be defective. It also seems that the tiles do not cover the entire roof.
In the second pic, the earthen roadway continues on over the bridge.
The first one, there is a hidden image of a cat
Look at the bushes just to the right of the building
The second one, other than the keystone, I have no idea
what the heck is a key stone?
shouldn’t the whie part of the sky be on top to represent clouds and the blue on bottom to be the actual sky?
On the first picture, the man’s head is turned to his back and also he’s holding the box with no hands.
On the second picture, the water is flowing from the nowhere.
roofing tile starts at the bottom not the top, and the key stone is upside down
the sky and the clouds are inverted
The man on the ladder would be 1.5 stories tall. He is out of perspective.
The man on the bridge would have no room for legs. He is also out of perspective.
.in the first picture.,there’s a sign that seems to read W.H. Smith.,right.?actually.,it’s read as W.H. 5mith..
in the first one thre should be ground at the bottom because thats where the door is. instead the ladder and whatever is next to it seems to be continuing off the screen
Found them in both
1st man roofing putting shingles from top to bottom Wrong must go from bottom to top
2nd man walks over bridge. water comes under bridge but has field on opposite side not river
It’s definately perspective in both pictures rather than building irregularities, i.e. keystone, tiles etc as only people in the building game would know the problem, thereby eliminating the general public, plus they appear to be illusions rather than fault.. The roof line of the house is wrong in comparison with the 3-dimensional walls and gutter line etc… The guy is actually carrying a hod which is held at the midriff
look closely at water going under bridge, you can see it should be exiting further to the right therefore the far wall of the bridge shouldn’t be visible to the left, the perspective is wrong…
In reference to the “Orchestra /2 heads” illusion It seems that there is a face in the hair of the lady whose playing. The face is to the back of her head sharing her hair which led me to believe it’s another head.
the perspective is slightly off in both. In the first, the roof has an odd angle (check the underlaying wooden obards) and in the second, the bricks of the bridge are lined in a staight line, while perspective should put them at a slight angle.
You guys are all wrong!! In the second picture there isn’t any river in the other side of the bridge!!
In the first I’m not sure but the guy isn’t holding the box with any of his hands
no clue. but I think Chris said about perspective is quite concrete.
No one noticed it! The guy is on one side of the ladder but we see the ladder the other way.
What’s wrong with these pictures?
1.The roofing tiles are being installed in the wrong direction, they should be bottom to top. This was, I think, the intent of the artist. Also, the second story window upper supports are missing. I think this was unintentionsl on the part of the artist.
2.The bridge keystone is pointing in the wrong direction, it should be pointing down, which was probably the intent of the artist.
Also, it would appear the stream is missing from the back side view of the bridge, though I doubt this was the artist’s intent.
There are perspective problems in both of these drawings, but I think that this degree of missed perspective was allowable in this kind of commercial artwork.
Note: The man on ladder has right hand on ladder and left hand on box. As with any flat rendition of a 3-d image, some objects can “pop” out of the image and appear out of place. I can do that with the ladder, but I don’t think that effect was intended by the artist.
73’s!
I agreed with the last post (Chris S.), and I’ll add something really notorious that nobody else notice: The man in the leader is very tall!!! (or the door is too small). He could never go in throught that door. The door is nearer than the man from the point of view, so it’s more tiny then.
About the second man, he seems to be standing on his knees. The water stream simply hides behind the bridge, but it’s there.
Greetings from Argentina!
AHHH ENGINEER HAS BOX HEAD
okey here what I think.
1, the roof has different degrease on the left its steeper then on the right
2.the hole under the bridge where the steam appears out of nowhere the hole is way to high
on the house the 2 windows arent on top of each other
nd the river doesnt come through the otherside of the bridge.
oh and the man on the ladder has his arms crossed over the would be no u wuld be able to climb a ladder with your arms like that
On the First image the S in Smith is a 5
In the second image there’s a piece of tree that comes from nowhere in the top left
Well…the trees are blue in the first picture.
The sign is wrong(house),W.H Smith is a stationery shop.
Bjöggi…why do windows need to be on top of each other??
and the man on the ladder clearly has his left hand on the box.
also the house could be pointed inwards (into the card) which would make the roof look steeper than it actually is.
The only error i can see is that the dirt path continues over the bridge.
Well, I agree with just about everything that was said here except for the man’s arms being crossed– you can clearly see his left hand on the lower edge of the box; the house and the ladder is continuing off the pic– maybe the house is on the slope of a hill. But where is he gonna set that box down when he gets up there to finish shingling the roof from the wrong direction??
Now, where I’m from in the country-country, it is possible for a dirt road to contiue over a small bridge crossing. But the things that stood out to me in the second picture was the fact that the keystone is upside down, the man does appear to be walking on his knees, there is land where there should be water behind the bridge, and no one has said that there is no proper reflection of the bridge in the water and it looks as if the stream disappears into an underground canal under the bridge.
1st pic: he somehow started the shingles up at the top and has nothing to stand on but the beams
2nd pic: land were the water should have continued
the clouds are below the sky! :)
1) You shingle from bottom up
2) Different shadows, water indicates sun over the mountain, but bridge has shadows in the opposite directions
1)The roof is on the wrong side. Since the door is at the front, the roof should be at the side.
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Have never seen anyone shingle a house from the top of the roof to the bottom. Also, the keystone off the bridge is in upside-down. Not sure how safe that would be.
Rob… You’re right.
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No need to start getting protractors out or set-squares – this is not the intention of these puzzles. Look for the simple things, that anyone with an ounce of common sense regardless of background can appreciate and contribute to the solution of.
BTW, I wouldn’t walk over that bridge…
In other words – look for the simple!
I’m in agreement with Alberto Franchi. There are no headers over the upper two windows, and as Steve says the shingling is all wrong. You do have to start from the bottom and work up. As for our builder, he’s carrying a hod of bricks up the ladder. As for the second card, the keystone is definitely upside down. Whether it’s a stream or a pond is unclear the way the drawing is done.
i seriously know what is wrong witht he second picture!!! the river or stream vanishes it is on the one side but not the other
First pic: all the building problems but also it looks like the guy has no head because the toolbox is on his shoulder
Second pic: the stream doesn’t continue on the other side and the keystone thing
in the first picture, the mans head is a tool box….in the second, the tree looks like a pig. am i the only one that sees it?
for the bridge the water goes under but there is no river on the other side