By Vurdlak on February 21, 2010, with 111 Comments
Glad you liked those Escape The Room games I posted! There are many more to come, in days to follow. Mainly because you requested so. At least this what the ratings in our previous post are telling me. I feared many would object to non-illusion orientated material, but I’m glad I was wrong. But now we should return to our main course. I have prepared something interesting for today. As simple as it may be, this photo managed to trick me. Probably because I tend to overlook the details, always concentrating on the “big picture”. This probably makes me superficial at observing things, but there isn’t much I can do about it. I’m sure you’ll see it quicker than I did, but just in case you don’t – there are hints all over the place. Check the file-name, tags… and if all this doesn’t help, would I make your life easier if I told you that the poster bellow was actually an ad done for Disneyland? Yeah, trivial – I know…
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the guy only has 3 fingers and a thumb!!
first :))
thats so easy i spotted it straight away!! There’s only 4 fingers on the hand :)
Three fingers and a thumb. Your Disney hint gave it away!
it only has 3 fingers!
I see the main trick, but I wonder if the folded digits are thumbs as well, or if they just look that way b/c of the way they had to edit the image.
there are only 4 fingers! ha! my little brother and I saw it at the same time!!!
this is so cool but grows
I’ve been staring at this for 30 minutes trying to figure out what the illusion was because I didnt know the three fingers was part of the illusion. I thought maybe the figers were thumbs but the joint at the end is too short.
i know wat u mean scott g, but look, those fingers have 2 joints after the first knuckle. a thumb only has 1
A finger is missing.
Well, everybody says “he’s got only three fingers!”
Now, since when did the thumb stop being a finger..?
lol, it took me a second. Very subtly done, nice realism.
Ok i’m still stuck in the room from yesterday..
Omg this is to easy it only has 4 fingers…..i would love to see much harder to figure out illusions
Umm… I’m confused… Is the fact that there are only 3 fingers actually the illusion in and of itself?
What’s the illusion in that? The photograph is actually only showing three fingers, I can’t see anything that is tricking my eye… I just saw 3 fingers and accepted it and then went searching for the illusion..
Am I missing something? What’s the illusion?
i don’t see it… except there are only three fingers visible and smallest finger is hidden inside the fist (thats quite visible)
Those are actually feet. The one foot is seen from the side with the other foots toes are wrapped around it. Im sure of it…
it took me like 1 minute to realise the hand only had 4 fingers XD
Thank you for all your hard work. I loved escaping the room and this one had me stumped for a few seconds as well. I love this app!
I am still in the room, does it mean I’m going to be stayed in there forever?
I still dont get it. what is the illusion? the fact that this hand has only four fingers??
LOL I stared at it for like 10 minutes, thinking there was something hidden, bcs the 4 fingers seemed too obvious… until I read comments… it’s Mickey Mouse’s hand!!
Whaha
genius
lol huge fingers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha that is just weird! But cool…:)
Woah, have you noticed that most cartoons have only 3 fingers?! That’s why it was an ad for Disneyland! hahahaha realy smart and funny!
Woot I noticed it before I read the blurb! I’m proud of myself.
The thumb is a phalange so it’s a different type of finger – probably because it opposes the other 4 (or3(.
I don’t think of this as an illusion, but just some clever Photoshopping. I saw the missing digit instantly. From the way you described it, I thought maybe the hand/fist would resemble a Disney character’s face or something. Good, but I don’t think photoshopped things should be considered an illusion :P
4 thumbs!!!!!!!!! :)
saw it right away!!!!!! :)
Right Kris – Mickey Mouse’s hand (paw??) – without his gloves on!
No illusion to this, just some photo shopping
And some bad quality as I may say so
Very cleary to see the middle finger has been removed, you can easaly spot a cut line between the forefinger (1st) and the ring finger (2nd)
The cut line runs in a curved line to the lower end of the wrist
so the ring finger and pink are simply tilted counter clockwise to fill the place of the middle finger
I had to read the comments to get it…
It’s really cool…and i feel stupid for not thinking of it before!
well what crap it has all the fingers the pinki is twisted inside and he hasd coverd it with the other 3, its nosense!hahahaha realy smart and funny!
this isn’t an illusion … it’s just Homer Simpson from an alternate universe
Anyway they say the dude has 4 fingers and 4 me it is only hiding the last finger and i can do that.Really!!!!!!!!!!
For Marcus,
The thumb was, and is, and will always be NOT a finger. This is because the thumb only has one joint, whereas the fingers have two.
Wow theres only 4 fingers on the hand….it got me at first but 5 seconds later i got it so come on you can do better
Nothing’s wrong with it… OH WAIT. Yeah. Of course. It has 9 extra fingers!
You know, if you stare at the picture long enough, the stripes turn blue. ;) LOL! JK!
heck, at first i thought this was a colors darkr on the other side thing then it hit meh!
i get there’s 3 fingers and a thumb but what does that have to do with Disney land?????
Three fingers and a thumb!
BTW, the thumb has never been, and will never be a finger.
Where’s the illusion? People are born with different configurations (commonly referred to as birth defects).
My poor Mickey! My poor Mickey!
What’s the illusion? An illusion is usually referred to as seeing something that isn’t there – as with the rainbow or the dots at the intersecting lines – Is there something I’m missing here?
I noticed it straight away before reading any text and then when I read about it I was expecting to see more.
the thumb is technically a finger, but because of the number of joints, and the fact that it is opposable, scientists consider it to be more than a mere finger, and so not calling it a finger is acceptable, but if you want to live your whole life using your thumb like it wasn’t opposable, by all means, call it a finger.
i never noticd that
Has no body picked up what the significant of the three fingers and a thumb means for Disney?
Think MOUSE.
great site btw, now back to getting out of that darned room
For all of those people who think the Thumb has less joints that the other finger, curl your thumb in and count the joints. You’ll find three just like any other finger. The first joint is deeper in the flesh, because it connects to the hand differently, but it’s a thumb joint nonetheless. Look at an X-ray of a had sometime . . . three joints!
Lol, Rather than notice the illusion, I actually spotted your spelling error with the word bellow. Good illusion by the way. Keep it up !
I dont`t get it..
I noticed the 4 fingers only right away, I know someone who only has 4 fingers and i`ve seen someone with 6 before
First thing I noticed…
Yeah, very trivial.
only 3 fingers.. not really an illusion.
AND 1 THUMB 8D
Here is a suggestion for you. Post one question associated with every illusion you post. Every illusion is like a puzzle, and you want to state clearly what the puzzle is. For example, “This picture was created without any photoshopping; it is a real photo. How was it done?” Or “What is this object, in reality?”, “What is wrong with this picture?” Put this question in bold, to separate it from other small talk.
That will clear things up a lot and prevent confusion about what the viewers are supposed to be able to tell or do.
Three fingers and a thumb. To simple???
ya i noticed the three fingers — and one thumb! ;) — right away, too easy. i saw it then kept looking cuz i thought it was something different, since that was so easy.
i was looking for something for about 10 mins, i got so annoyed that i only realised that he only has 3 fingers and a thumb when i read the other posts.
maybe thats just cause im not very good at spotting things tho. :L
does the little bump on the middle/right side of the pic mean anything?
Mickey Mouse only has three fingers and a thumb.
I got distracted by the ripple in the wall paper and didn’t notices the fingers till I left the room and came back
I looked and i looked and i looked i saw the hand lol
So this fellow has a double jointed little finger… COOL illusion by the comments I read above!
Donald Duck!! Turn your heads clockwise 90 degrees!
Sorry, but it’s just a three-fingered thumbs up.
Does he have three fingers or something?
Oh that’s annoying. I saw the three fingers right away and spent ten minutes trying to figure out what in the hell the illusion was.
Looks to me like they are all thumbs
Wow. That was kinda confusing 4 a second.
Wow. That was kinda confusing 4 a second.
It took me a while! Thumbs up from Mitschka
I’m usually easily fooled, but I spotted this one immediately.
Not an illusion.
what a load of rubbish. not an illusion, more a picture of someone with only 3 fingers.
WOW BORING
i think the author needs to understand the meaning of the word illusion before posting it just to get cheap publicity.
I think the illusion is that the stripes on the wall distracts you from the fingers.
The paper got me
Slightly-less-bothered ditto of what Samantha said above.
Are you people serious?…cuz that’s the first thing I noticed about the pic…I just spent 10 minutes crossing my eyes, tilting my head and squinting trying to see what I was missing….The optical illusion couldn’t be something so obvious as three fingers! It’s not the fingers….
i can do that little bit
Big hint:He says it was an ad for disney land!!!
C’mon!