By Vurdlak on October 9, 2009, with 185 Comments
Find the fault in the above picture
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Nah, am just messing with you (like you wouldn’t figure it out). So once again we have few vintage cards for you to play with. There are 5 of them, and each one includes at least one logical mistake. Can you spot all of the faults, in all of these game cards? First one is placed on the right, while the others can be found below inside our small gallery. Normally, I would’ve included one of these per article, but since I find them so easy to solve I’ve included all of them.
If my memory servers me well, we’ve concluded that these were very popular back in the old days when our grandfathers were young. Perhaps not as precious as all those vintage baseball cards, but still valuable. While you are reading this I should already be in NYC for a week, and hopefully drinking cocktails and enjoying my 7th day in Big Apple. Why I’m writing all this in such a way, it’s because I wrote this article on the last day of September and set it to auto-appear today.
I just hope I haven’t jinxed myself revealing all this… If someone has a quick thought what else to see while I’m still on Manhattan, now is the time to comment! I’ll still be able to follow this site and approve content. Now, don’t forget the gallery below. Logging out. Aurevoir!
Few more examples for you to play with:
(33 votes)
Time on the clock face and the position of the sun don’t match.
The clock says 1:00 but it’s sunrise?
the watering can splash protector is at teh back instead of the front?
The wall behind the rooster isn’t straight?
The boy is a giant!
The red light is at the bottom
OK.. I think for the first time I actually got them:
The clock face should be in shadow,
The top of tehe watering can is backwards, i.e. the water guard should be at the front.
The cockerals feet should not be webbed,
The rope of the swing is to far forward
And the lights of the traffic lights are upside down : red should be at the top.
On the 3 first pictures:
- traffic lights reverse
- 2 ropes missing
- wings missing
For watering can and castle… hmmm… i’m in confusion :-(
1.In the church picture,the sun is rising / setting, but the time on the church clock is 1 O’Clock.
2.In the watering can picture the “top” of the can is on the wrong side, it should be near the spout.
3.In the street picture the traffic lights are red at the bottom.
4.I think the cockerel’s “comb” is back to front.
5.The Ropes on the swing are at the front of the seat instead of the middle
There is no sunset or sunrise at 1:00 anywhere !
1st picture: clocktower on a chapel doesn’t seen to fit.
card no. 19: the traffic lights on the right side are facing the wrong side of the street.
card no. 13: the boy is standing in quite an awkward position, preventing the girl to swing.
card no. 8: the rooster has webbed feet
card no. 9: with this kind of watering can, you wouldn’t need a springkler at all!
Ok, I think I got the mistakes:
1) Church: most churches naves are in east-west direction, with the entrance facing east. But in any case, in the picture, the sun is either rising or setting, and that doesn’t happen at 01:00 nor at 13:00 hours!
2) Watering can: eht half-lid that covers only half of the top opening has to be on the same side as the end where the water comes out from, as this lid is intended to prevent water coming out from the top opening as you tip the can forward.
3) Swing: the ropes are inserted into the seat uncentered, which would make the seat hang down rather than make a horizontal surface.
4) Cocks don’t have webbed feet! And (I’m not sure about this) maybe only 3, not 4 fingers?
5) Crossing: It seems this is a left driving country. While the traffic light near the viewer is on the left, the same as the STOP sign painted on the tarmac, the traffic light further away is on the right AND after the crossing, rather than before the crossing, where it doesn’t make much sense.
Since when does the sun rise/set at 1? ;)
I can’t only find the sunset and the traffic fault!
it’s 1 o’clock & the sun in at the horizon…
1. The clock’s time is somewhat weird.
2. The lip of the watering can.
3. The rooster is webbed feet like a duck.
4. It’s obvious, look where the rope ends, from top to bottom.
5. The stoplight’s red and green lights are switched.
Hope that helped!
The Clock is at 1 o’clock but the sun is rising or setting
the church one is the hardest, found the rest
1st sun is setting @ 2pm
i don’t get it where ????????????????
for swing one, please look at the shadow…
THE SWING ONE IS NOT ABOUT THE ROPES!!!!!!
LOOK AT THE SHADOW!! YOU WILL KNOW WHATS WRONG!
Actually teh car one means that the car is stopping in the middle of the road, in my opinion >:)!
At the church the clock says 1pm or 2pm the sun should not be setting
The watering can ”water stopper” is at the back of the can it should be in front
The rooster has webbed feet
The swing ropes should be in the middle or the girl will fall down.
At the traffic the place of the red and green at switched(green suppose to be bottom red suppose to be ontop)
has no one pointed out that the stoplights are facing in the wrong direction? Providing the one in the front is correct the one on the left should face left and the one on the right should face the opposite way than it is. If the front one is not correct (these are old and European so who knows) the the others should follow suit to whatever the correct orientation to the street is.
OK… this may be easy for our host, but I have been unable, as yet, to spot a single hidden image or “flaw”. In ANY of the pictures in this gallery. This is quite, quite frustrating. Please… the solution needs to be posted somewhere, if not directly in each individual article than at least *somewhere* where those of us who are, apparently, not erudite in such matters can at least see what everybody else is having fun with… and maybe learn to see such for ourselves.
Position of the sun against the time shown on the clock does not make sense!
1) about the “sunset/rise” picture: in northern areas the sun may be in this position at 1.00 at night. it happens in the midsummer (21. june). even around here, at 59 degrees at north, at gulf of finland, the nights around this date are pretty bright.
ok, PROBABLY the artist meant this point, that the clock time is wrong but anyways – this is not that easy, as it may seem.
2) the street picture had red light on the bottom but it should be at the top.
=S
I can’t find the faults in any of them!
Help?
The time is not correct, it’s not possible to have a sunset at this time right, except in some countries
If sun is the only strong source of light, and it is behind the church, the visible side of the building should be in shadows.
Does that look like a chimney pot on top of the enterance of the church?
It is not left hand drive in England. I assume the person in the car closest to us is the driver!
Why is there string holding up the spout of the watering can? it is either pointlessly there, or it would be impossible to hold on the spout if it was due to the spout being damaged on the base connection, wouldn’t the spout just swing on the string and water would pour out of the hole in the can?
1) The clock displays the time at 2:00 while the sun is rising or setting.
2) The watering can is useless, water will spill from the top.
3) The cock has duck feet.
4) The strings of the swing are attached at only one point on the swing.
5) Traffic lights are reversed.
i guess because there is no door to the house…but that’s all i see wrong
#4, The boy is standing at the center point of the swing’s arc. If he were to push the girl, he’d be bowled over when the swing swings back.
Other than that, Pilcrepus is right on. (except that the church light is either 12:05 or 1:00)
For the intersection I noticed that both the light on the closer side of the street and the light on the far side of the street are both facing in the same direction. The one on the far side of the street should be facing to the right based on it’s position. I don’t know if in england(they are driving on the left side of the road) that the lights are supposed to be red on top and green on botton but that may also be another fault.
I believe Pilcrepus is right on all counts except the traffic light one. Based on the setup in the picture, they are in the right positions but the one on the far side of the street should be facing away from the viewer.
Oh sorry, Pilcrepus is also wrong about the swing, MoGryph got that one.
The swings ropes are attached to the front of the seat. She would fall off if it were like that.
The flaw in the curch is that the clock says it’s one o’clock and the sun is setting or rising. Either way, it would not be one o’clock
there are two clocks duh and the time on them is wrong
The traffic light one is that there is both a stop light and it says stop on the street… what happens when the light turns green? =]
At first glance I noticed the clock, it says 2:00 O’clock. Since when did the sun set at 2?
That is in #1.
i found these:
1) the clock time is 1 o’clock, and no way would the sun be like that in the morning OR the afternoon.
2) in the chicken picture, the chicken has webbed feet.
3) the girls swing is only being supported at the front; she’d just fall off the back.
4) theres a red light at the bottom of the traffic light.
5) im not sure about the watering can, but i think its that the handle is the wrong way.. or maybe its something to do with the string..
the watering spout does not have a shadow it has noting to do with a string
ah-HA. for the watering can one, the thing that holds the water in when you tilt it too much(the half-lid thing) is on the wrong side! theres no point for that there when youre not going to be pouring water from that end.
the one with the girl swiinging is that the ropes are tied to the front of te swing so she would fall backwards
The hen has a webbed feet (like a duck).
The traffic lights look fine. The closest one if facing us and the far right one is facing us. Just like the far left one is facing them and its assumed the closest one to them is facing them. So each direction has one close and one far facing them. So that is not the problem.
Melissa, I work in a museum and these vintage cards just came into our collection. I can tell you these are 1920s era British playing cards.
Which is why the direction of the traffic lights seem odd.
THE CLOCK READS 1:00 & THE SUN is rising or setting…….right?
THE CLOCK READS 1:00 & THE SUN is rising or setting…….right? the cock has webbed feet & i cant see a wing & the street light arent proper & the watering cans lip to keep the water from spilling out is on the back rather than the front * the ropes on the swing are obvious.
~LSD~
Were clocks even invented then, I think not. It looks as though it is a church (due to the stained glass) and if it was a church then it should have bell tower rather than a clock.
In this photo, I believe the fault is the top lid-like thing on top of the watering can (looks like half a lid). Shouldn’t this be on the opposite side to prevent the water from spilling out when watering the flowers wich require you to put the can in a certain angle.
With the girl on the swing, the fault is the placement of the rope (where it is tied to the wood). If the girl was really on this, she should have fallen backwards. The rope should be tied in the middle of the wood.
The traffic light placement, the one in the middle right. It is faceing the audience, but by the car that is driving towards us; it is clearly used for the opposite lane, so the traffice light is useless in that position.
the swing’s ropes are only at the front, not supporting the back too. so she shouldnt be able to sit on it…
For the intersection picture, if you look at the traffic light on the very far left, there are lights on both sides.
Assuming all lightposts had lights on both sides, then there is nothing wrong with being able to see traffic lights on the two posts to the right, so something else is wrong in the picture.
Assuming all lightposts had lights on only one side, then the lightpost on the far left is wrong, and is hence the mistake in the image.
Duh… on the intersection… THE STOPLIGHT IS FACING THE BUILDING and is too far<–
Probably the light and shadows on the car one. Look at the shadows indicating the sun is off to the left but the wrong face on the oposite building is illuminated. It should also be casting a shadow on the face of the building across the road from it.
im only unsure about the watering can. it’s probably how the shower head has no shadow.
about the intersection, the traffic lights are placed wrong; imagine being the lady in green, how would you know when you were allowed to cross? (i know you could look at the far right one but you get the idea)
oh i just realized the “fault” in the watering can picture, very clever :)
the clock on the left says its 12:10 where as the clock to the right says its 2 o’clock.
Is there something wrong with the girl’s left hand?
1) The clock displays the time at 2:00 while the sun is rising or setting.
2) The watering can is useless, water will spill from the top.
3) The cock has duck feet.
4) The strings of the swing are attached at only one point on the swing.
5) Traffic lights are reversed.
the window..try observing the window
Everyone got it wrong for the 1st picture , the left clock is 12:10 and the right one is 2:00.
For the car, these cards are british. There aren’t any doorhandles on the car.
These were pretty easy
there’s two clocks right? one on the bright wall and one on the shadowed wall. how come the shadowed wall is so dark yet the clock is clearly visible?
and ofcourse the time.
Am I the only one who thinks the perspective is way off in the traffic light image?
It looks like each building has its own vanishing point, making it appear as though they are rotated at different angles rather than parallel.
its 2 o’clock
The traffic light is twice as tall as the lady, at least, and their shadows are the same length. Possible?
What about this, the traffic light has nothing to do with it, it’s just that car has no door at all (or no door handle).
The roof above the door and the roof below the clock should be in the shade if the sun is behind the building.
LOL at the girls had, the left one, also what is the swing connected to?
It’s a Norman church (you can tell by the design of the tower), built before clocks were invented.
Am i the only one wondering what the swing that the lady is on is attached to?
it doesnt matter… if you notice the spot that the rope attaches to the seat, it is at the front rather than the middle. WHICH would not be suitable for balance :D
the watering can would not be able to water anything as the spout is held in position by string and would fold toward the can. also the splash lip is on the wrong side of the can..
the only way the boy could be standing behind the girl on the swing would be if she was at rest, but the angle of the ropes shows that she is in motion. If she’s moving forward he should be way behind her (having just pushed her). If she is moving backward he is about to get clocked.
Rooster has webbed feet
Girls swing isnt attached to anything
Sunrise @ 2am?
i thgout the sun risesfrom the east too hhh
my answers are..
Building – neither sunrise nor sunset happen at 2 o’clock
Watering Can – the handle and the spout are an the wrong sides of the can when tipped the water will spill out of the top of the can.
Roosters – do NOT have webbed feet
Swinger – it would be nearly impossible to balance on that swing since it is tied to the seat near the front and not the center sides. with her feet in the are crossed, the girl should be lying on her back!
Street – this one was a little hard for me. I finally figured it out. At first, I thought maybe the driver was on the wrong side but that is entirely difficult to tell. but the stop lights are entirely in the wrong places. With the closest stop light in it’s position, there would be no need for the stop light to the right in the distance since there would both be for the same traffic. If you try to rationalize it as well maybe it is for the other side then why does it have lights on the forward facing side. If there is a light on each corner, it should only face the oncoming traffic.
If the card are for the 1920 there werent any caution light at that time the lights were red and green only caution light didnt come till much later. And the colors were red on top and green on bottom.
There are no lights for the perp. section of the intersection: why have lights for only one part of the intersection…
I thought the fault in that picture was the building on the right. It looks too modern.
the rope of the swing cannot be connected to the front of the plank the girl is sitting on…she’ll fall when the swing moves forward!
the spout of the watering can has to be attached to the top[brim] of the can…you cant water with this can as the water will flow out the top when it is tilted forward!
yes it will pour out correctly the spout is connected at the right level of the can as long as the end that the water comes out is higher than the can the water will pour out just fine. But the spout is on the wrong side of the can from the splash guard.
-The church clock says 1 o clock, yet the sun is setting. It should be high in the sky or dark!
-The swing has the rope attached to the front of the seat, surely if she sat back she would tip over backwards!
-The cockerel has webbed toes and no obvious wings!
-The watering can’s lip is on the wrong side so when you tip it the water would spill out over the top too.
-The traffic lights are the wrong way up, red goes at the top and green at the bottom. (I am presuming traffic lights existed back then?)
- the clocks on the tower tell differnent times.. didnt u notice, btw, not easy to do!
Also the stopline is on the wrong side of the road
The traffic light on the right is also facing in the wrong direction. It shouldn’t be facing in the viewers direction as it is on the wrong side of the street and the traffic light on the left is already doing this job.
The far curb on the right protrudes into the middle of the street (toward the viewer).
The people and the truck down the street on the right do not have matching shadows.
The Ground says “STOP” yet there’s a stop light. So do they still stop if the light is green?
1.the buildings clock is not correct for a sunrise or a sunset.
2.the rope conected to the swing is to far in front
3.the rooster has webed feet
4.there shouldn’t be a stop light on the oppisite side of the road facing the wrong direction
5.i dont know which side a spash guard goes on but if you expect water to come out of that can it will come out the top because as soon as the neck of the spout goes down to pour water it will come out the top.