By Vurdlak on June 7, 2010, with 223 Comments
Rob Samborn sent me the attached photo on Wednesday. What it appears to be is a woman playing with a happy giant turtle. Maybe this isn’t one of the best optical illusions the world has seen, but Rob managed to trick me, and this isn’t something that happens so often to a “self-proclaimed” optical illusion professional like me.
Try and decode this illusion for yourselves, and if nothing else helps, then you may click the link below to expand the hidden solution. Did Rob manage to fool you as well, or was I the only sucker in town? I’m eager to hear your thoughts!
If you’re wondering why there was no update on Saturday, I can assure you it was an isolated incident, because it took almost whole day to reinstall my PC. I have formatted my disk and finally decided to give Win 7 a try. You know how it is when you’re updating your operating system, installing programs, drivers, etc – a never ending story.
Expandable Solution:
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I knew what it was straight away……sorry hon xxxx
Naw, no turtle for me. Horses are horses. Sorry.
what is the animal, anyways. A disfigured cardboard turtle?
OMG i found the “turtle”… took long enough!
its a horse. front end of head. look at solution if necessary.
I can see the turtle after a while, it’s actually quite a good illusion once you find it, the first thought is your mad as it’s clearly a horse but once you see it, your not so mad.
Computer wise just get a mac, Idid and long gone are the days of a full reinstall!
ya it was far harder for me to see a turtle because I couldn’t get past the fact that I was seeing a horse nose way up in the air.
I saw the horse first but reading giant Turtle in the title made me see what you were getting at right away. Cool Illusion.
To the comment about the MAC, I have a mac and sunday had to take it to the apple store because of one little thing going wrong caused me to be completely locked out of my hard drive.
No computer is perfect.
But at least I got it back within a few minutes, without paying, and without losing any files. :)
What I noticed was a turtle held close to a camera. THEN I noticed the horse and cow in te background.
I saw your turtle….He’s adorable…just have to look at it the right way!
I saw it but only after I saw the horse
I knew what it was straight away too!
your just a sucker i didnt know how that was a horse
I definitely couldn’t place the turtle right away like most people, cool illusion. I actually thought it was the mouth of a camel at first.
yeah, i can see both (turtle and horse)
Turtle where?…..eh?
Is it just me?
Every time I visit this website from an rss link, the page is scrolled to the bottom after loading…
I don’t think this one was very good. This is obviously a horse’s nose. If it looked like a turtle, it looks very cartoonish and not real at all.
Run Linux, it’s faster, doesn’t get viruses or crash and best of all it’s FREE!
Only “professionals” can see the turtle?:P
Where is the turtle? Is it part of the mule?
Isn’t this an illusion site?
lol, stupid ‘n fantastic!
I saw the donkey/horse first and only saw the turtle after reading the explanation…so if the illusion was hiding the turtle’s head in favour of assuming a donkey’s head was there, then WELL DONE!!
I got it wrong, I thought it was a camel at first.
Still can’t see the turtle. Sorry, call this FAIL for you
What on EARTH made you think that was a TURTLE?? I’m so sorry, but it is very obvious that you have never been around creatures of an equine nature before if you mistook a horse’s nose (I haven’t looked at the “answer” but I see someone above calling it a donkey, so maybe it is a donkey – but at any rate, it is definitely equine) for a turtle head. I had to REALLY suspend my disbelief to even sort of see a turtle there. Sorry.
I didn’t see the turtle at first. It looked like horse to me from the start. After I really started looking for it I could see it.
I Have to say, I cant believe anybody looks at that picture and sees a turtle. I actually spent a few seconds browsing for a link to the photo described, because all I saw was the horse nose and therefor decided that it must be an unrelated picture. After quite a bit effort I managed to force myself to see a hint of this very un turtle like acclaimed turtle. If you look hard enough you can spot an alternate image in anything, such as clouds and plaster board. Looks like the general consensus is that the majority of people wouldn’t consider this much of an optical illusion.
i had trouble seeing it as a turtle…sorry but i didn’t get tricked at all. Saw it right away…
When I first saw it I thought thats one WIERD looking turtle sculpture thingy!
i knew it was a horse the first moment i looked at it
am i the only one who thought it looked like a camel?:o
i thought it was a horse pretending to be a turtle!
:)
:)
…since when did turtles have teeth?
i STILL cant see the turtle dammit
Looks like a camel to me :P
i couldn’t even find the turtle then i saw the that the nose was the eyes and mouth
its a horse and a turtle with nostril-eyes!!
heee-haawww
Saw the horse immediately, had to work for the turtle…
LOL, I didnt get the illusion at first, because I thought it was just a horse. But after I read the whole thing, I looked at the photo again and it took me long enough to see the turtle! :)
wheres the turtle?
ITS AN ILLUSION!!!!!! !@$%!#^$%^!#$%^!$#%
the nostrils are eyes and the mouth is the mouth, pls read the description in illusions
The only I saw from get-go was a woman reaching out to a horse’s nose. I didn’t see any turtle.
is the horses “nostrils” the turtle’s “eyes”?
it’s clearly a horse/donkey
Gahaha! I see it!! The eyes are the nostrils!
That is either a horse or a donkey! It does NOT look like a turtle AT ALL! Am I right?
Fail
the moment i saw the pic i saw a camel.. but i dint think of a turtle untill i read the title!! it is either a camel.. or a horse
Oh I see, but without the glasses she would more like an turtle…
What turtle? It looks like she is scratching the chin of a mule or a donkey?
I saw a turtle ans FYI they do get that big!! ll and then I saw the donkey.
Oh… At first I saw a horse, but I wondered where the turtle was. Seems like your comments helped me find the illusion! xS
I couldn’t see it as a turtle even after he said what he thought it was. But I know that the nostrils are the eyes and the mouth is the mouth.
I knew it was a horse cuz i am a HUGE horse enthusaist
i saw the turtle straight away, i think it was a very good illusion.
horse or camel thats it for me!!!!! :(
it freaked me out when i saw the turtle the nose is the eye
Yeahh, I’m not finding the turtle anywhere in this! :/
If you blur your eyes the head of the woman seems to turn and look at you1 Freaky!
I knew it was a horse! It’s pretty obvious!!!!
FOUND IT! man that was fast 0_0;