May 26, 2009 by Vurdlak with 294 Comments
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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The toolbox is in actual fact a Hod, and has a wooden shaft running verticle, which the builder will be holding with his left hand. Tiles should be from bottom to top and keystone is upside down.
The first one: The name W.H Smith is spelled with a 5 instead of a S.
The second one: It looks like the water is flowing under the bridge but there does not appear to be water on the other side, only land.
I haven’t read the other comments (255 at the time of writing) but the answers are: The roofer is putting the roof tiles on in the wrong order. For them to overlap and be watertight he would need to start at the bottom and work up! In the second case the bridge could not be built as the locking keystone is upside down!
Hope this answers it for everyone.
the 1st one the carpenter is not holding the toolbox and the 2nd one, the man could be a short guy or he is kneeling..
Think outside the box then its simple.
Or stop tryin to focus so much
sky is above the clouds
he is putting shingles on and underlayment is still on the ground
In the first one of the builder. The roof isn’t completed enough for putting down shingles.Plywood and tar paper go on before the shingles.
In the second, the far hill is purple insted of green.
That’s the best I can come up with.
in the second, how can the water be under the grass? it kinda looks weird.. well in the first one,it looks kinda weird because ..well theres kinda faces in the clouds and the roof is not strong enoghf to hold shingles i think and is W> SMITH BUILDER a name? cause it souds weird…
the first one. the door knob is on the wrong side. the window is missing a lat. unless its a different window cuz th efirst one broke and couldn’t be replaced lol. Plus whatever you guys already noticed.
In the second one that man is actually a woman and that tree has an extra weird part attached which is not possible considering that type of tree. also theres only one side of that fence. plus whatever else you guys noticed
well, the biggest fault i can see in both the pictures is that the clouds are under the sky. or maybe its just pollution
No Shadows… no smoke (pipe)
The first photo has a easy fault. The tiles are attached in wrong side. And now it is impossible to add more tiles with the help of the ladder placed on that side.
The second photo has a very tricky fault. The bridge has water on the one side.
M i ryt?
the tree in the first pic looks like a woman yelling at the builder.
HAHA THERE ARE MANY THINGS “WRONG” ABOUT THESE PICTURES NOT REALLY THEY ARE NOT WRONG ITS LIKE WHERES WALDO THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT THEY JUST HAVE LITTLE HIDDEN THINGS IN IT
the 1st one the door knob is on the incorrect side of the door, and the second one has a shadow continuity error.. if the shadow is going behind the wall of the bridge it can’t possibly going on the other side over the water.. ya digg?
In second picture the keystone is upside down. With the keystone in that position the arch will collapse.
When putting shingles on a roof you should start at the lower edge first, laying a horizontal row of shingles. Then work your way UP to the apex of the roof. This person is doing it backwards.
Shingles are going from top to bottom – usually the other way?
No stream otherside of bridge? And yes the keystone is upside-down.
on the secound one, there is no water on the other side of the bridge.
In the first pic the slates should be put on from the bottom of the roof moving up to the top as they have to overlap.
In the second pic, the top stone of the arch is upside down (it would fall out).
the 1st picture has 3 the roof the head of the builder and the sign W.H 5mith the 2nd pciture not sure i only see 2 the guy Clue of the guy:the head is super small and the body is super large and the fence. ^_^ have a nice day of illusions
oh yeah the 1st picture the guys foot ^_^ sry that i said the answers
first pic: W.H 5MITH instead of W.H SMITH
These are easy:
First One – His two helpers, Stan and Reggie, haven’t shown up to help him finish the roof today. They have sent word that bus that was supposed to bring them to the site from the youth hostel where they have been living, has broken down and it will take a few hours to get it repaired. But the truth is that they were up too late drinking at a pub and are nursing catastrophic hangovers. There was no way they were showing up at 7:00 am. Also, his wife has left a cup of warm tea for this guy inside on the kitchen counter. He likes two lumps of sugar in his tea. She only put in one. (To be fair, I know you guys probably haven’t actually been inside the house, so you probably wouldn’t have even figured out the tea one like I did.)
Second One – Chauncy is strolling into the village to make a withdraw from the bank, and hopes to be there when the doors open. What he doesn’t know is that Katherine, who is scheduled to open the bank today, is currently struggling with her first bout of debilitating morning sickness, and didn’t even know that she was pregnant. She tried to phone Rosie to ask if she can substitute for her today, but she forgot that it is Tuesday, and Rosie always spends Tuesdays uptown to sit with her ailing aunt.
If you look a little more closely, there are a few other small things that are wrong with these images. But I thought I would just point out the most obvious ones that jumped out at me.
You’re welcome.
-Jon
Oh yeah, and one more thing; In the 2nd image, if you’re wondering what Chauncy planned to do with the money he hoped to withdraw… relax. There is no way I could possibly even know that just from looking at the image.
Jeez, you guys!
-Jon
everything else AND the two upper windows in the first picture have no framing around it just like the ones below them. They are waay too close to the roof line. The bottom right side of the front door window is 2 pane window..not 4 like the rest, but still could just be 2.
In the first picture, the trees are blue.
2nd picture there’s no smoke coming from the pipe & the keystone is wrong
I thought it said “find the fruit” so I just assumed it was the guy in each picture. Tra la laaa.
chuck norris
is it the clouds?
The fault in the second image concerns the stones that form the arch of the bridge. As in any dome or iglu, the stones or ice blocks resist gravity by having their bottom side smaller than the upper side, so to compress against each other and so keep the structure standing. In this case the lower central stone has its lower face bigger, which would mean that this bridge cannot stand, it should have come crashing down as soon as it was finished.
Second one is where does the water under the bridge goes….??????..no where..
First one the man should lay roof tiles from lower end of the roof to upwards to be water tight.
Theres no fault in the pictures …………… in the second one the hill looks blue ’cause its far away .
W.H.Smith are not builders, they are a shop that sells books, magazines and crappy gifts!
Honestly, what a load of wrong answers :D
1) Roof tiles can only be laid from the bottom up, as the tiles overlap each other (obviously, or water would get in)
2) The Keystone on the bridge (the centre stone at the top of the arch) is upside down. This one would simply drop out under the pressure and weight of the bridge and stones pushing against it.
To me the most obvious error is the incorrect colour of the hills in the background. The person who spotted the incorrectly positioned keystone in the bridge arch deserves full marks.
Regarding the tile or shingle placement one could still lay them in this fashion if desired. A roofer only has to lift a tile slightly to place the other one underneath.
By looking at it this the roofing work is not at fault but is only being done in an unorthodox fashion. Unless the hills are covered in Lavender or Salvation Jane,which would make them appear purple,this appears to be the major error in the first picture.
in the first one, the windows are the wrong way around.
the second one, there is water under the bridge. on the other side, its land.
the first post [martin, 19 dec,2009], was right plus the uinderlayer was not installed yet on the 1st pix. the keystone was the ‘key’, the river may have curved away to the right unseen from the viewer.
no lintels or support above top windows and keystone is wrong way on bridge
in 2nd picture there aint no river after the bridge