By Vurdlak on January 19, 2011, with 379 Comments
There was this record called “Music for Nurses”, whose cover I received back in the old days in way of illusion submission. I never managed to decode the name of the band which was printed as a negative in central position of the cover. Person who sent me this said it was easy, but it took some cheating (Google) before I could see what it says. I decided to share this one, and am more than interested to see how well you manage to decipher the hidden text. Remember not to cheat, and please be honest when reporting how long did it take before you could read it!
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ive seen these kinds of illusions before. so i knew how they worked.
so i was starting from the left..
o-c-e…
then i accidentally put my cursor over the image revealing the answer.
(is that counted as cheating?)
Don’t know if I’m right, but after 5 to 10 minutes of reverse enginering process on every single letter, I’ve come up with “Ocean size”…Well, at least I think that’s the word, even if I still can’t see clearly the first half…
I read Oceansize, but I do not know the band… in case it is right… took me some 3 min to figure it out although size was clear but ocean it is difficult, mainly the O and the N
Good one nevertheless. keep good work!
Oceansize…took me a few seconds and the noticing the tags…
I figured the “size” part out myself
i can see ceasize – so i dont think ive got all of it!
See the tooltip
Oh.. it took me about 1 minute to get my eyes decipher the ‘negative’.. it looks as though it says OCEANSIZE.. it’s so clear once you get it..! Very clever!
In aboout 5 minutes I came to “OCE*NSZE”.
Then I hovered over the pictuere with my mouse and it showed the name of the picture. So I tried not to cheat, but hey, you made it too easy.
Still have trouble seeing the “I” though.
i think its oceansize, but i have never heard of this band…
I can see “size” in the second half of the word, the other half might be CEA? CED? LED?
“Oceansize”? Took me about 90 sec.. :)
OCEANSIZE?
Unfortunately the name of the band was disclosed by my browser. It revealed the filename of the picture while the cursor was on top of it. So I did not set a time. However even with the solution I can not see the “i” in the band name. I think this illusion is hard to crack.
well, i would have tried deciphering it if the answer wasn’t in the alternate text, tags and the picture name
honestly, that just spoils the fun
ocean size?
Oceansize
It took me 30 seconds to see the last four characters. The first five make no sense to me, not even after cheating.
2 days!!!
SPOILER:
Hmm…I can make out size, but not the first part.
It was easy, I just put the mouse over the image and a small text appeared with the solution. In the tag don’t put the solution
I see oceansize. Took me about 10 seconds to see it.
its easy its oceanside it took 2 minutes
AND FIRST COMMENT WOOP
It took 1sec to read. THE TEXT IS IN THE TOOLTIP!
About 2 mins to get Ocean Size, but not completely sure that’s it.
breastsize is what I see
Oceansize :)
took me a while -_-
A+
SPOILER:
The name is in the tags and when you put your cursor over the image. Ooops.
something…eansize…
If it`s “ocean size” I did it in about 15 seconds.The person was right, it`s easy.
Been looking at it again, and again and finally I’ve come to the opinion it says ‘oceansize’.
they trick you with the first letter; that makes the thing pretty hard
Few seconds to read the two words of the text (but I’m a graphic designer, I’m used to act with this sort of things). First of all we must realize that the outern part of the writing become invisible when coloured in the same black of the background. The difficulty is in the reconstruction of the hidden part in our brains.
I think i can see IX( or maybe the X is an inverted C and an S) ISZE
OCEANSIZE
It took me about 30 seconds honestly and I think it’s OceanSize?
I think I see SOS in there but this one is tricky
*OCEANSIZE
oced size ? took me 5 minutes but its not corect
ocean size 10 minutes :)
Well, you kind of give it away to say the least… but yes, it’s hard and even with the ‘subtle hint’ it’s hard to see the whole text.
:D
PS. Mouse over the picture…
Putting the answer in the tags didn’t half make it easier… ;-)
How about Ocean size? It took me less then five minutes.
unfortunately I hovered the pointer over the pic, and voila, got it, because that’s the name of the pic attached. 2 minutes max.
About a min to see “size”. Then “ocea” became easy. I wanted to fill in the N, but it looked wrong until a couple minutes later when realized it was not capital.
The band’s name is “Oceansize,” but I know that only because I did a search on Tineye. Didn’t quite get it, otherwise.
OceanSize I took less than 30 seconds.
The “O” and the “n” are tricky :))
i managed about 1 minute to figure it out
when i went with my mouse over the picture i knew it right away first i only saw size
It’s OCEANSIZE.
The “Size” is pretty easy to see, but “OCEAN” is a bit tricky.
- Print the picture and cut à rectangle around the word. That will greatly help.
- Now, check for the “E” in the left part (same that the E in SIZE).
- Reverse it, it give a “A”.
-> You got __EA_SIZE
Once you got the E and A,The C is easy to see, and then the O.
Got it : OCEANSIZE :)
So Ya Ive Never Heard Of The Band Before And Still Dont Know Anything About Them But Its Def Oceansize And It Took Me 20 Seconds-ish
I see Nothing (help morehintz ) :-)
I had to cheat ..it took me forever!!
i can read the last part… … size…
but cannot figure the first few letters… not even sure how many letters there are
OCEANSIZE
3 min. the size part was easy but the rest i had to figure out one by one
Done in 7 seconds – quite amazing! :)
I take 3 minutes to discover the first letter and the middle letter because it uses all uppercase and lowercase letters in addition to the widths of the letters vary
I guess it’s OCEANSIZE???
I think I solved it in less than one minute.
Took mere seconds to read. Yet you had trouble?
Wonder if it has something to do with certain people?
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Oceansize! took me a couple of minutes though actually. at first i just saw cea size. couldnt get past that for a while.
I cheated and I still can’t see it…
I’m struggling with the left side of this illusion. I think I can make out Ocean and Size but the middle is tough
Oceansize! It didnt take me very long to figure it out, but it kinda sucked that the tags gave it off too. Still good.
it took me a while to get the o and n about 3-5 minutes. i cant believe i never thought about tags
Oceansize I believe… although never heard of them before so that could be way off…
ocean size
Ocean Size– took me about 1 minute
Looks like “oceaosize” to me, with the white parts as the spaces in the letters.
Or maybe oceansize, the middle letter is a bit ambiguous.
Took me less than five minutes, but I probably got it wrong :)
WOW this is my favorite band on the planet! What are the chances I would see their logo on Illusion of the Day. Everyone should check out this band.
After about 25 minutes I checked my work and was off by one letter. I did cheat and used a generous helping of MS Paint though.
OCEANSIZE
Is it OCEANSIZE? That’s what it looks like to me. It wasn’t too hard to get it, actually.
This is a tricky one to figure out unless you’re in the know and are familiar with the font that Oceansize use for their album covers!
I never saw the whole thing, but got almost all of it after a few looks. Since “oceansize” is a word I knew, I couldn’t get the “n”. It had the same white line as the “o”. It’s still difficult to see, because the word “oceansize” is so odd. Once th efact that it was in lowercase letters it became easier. The “size” part came out pretty quickly. Good illusion.
4 minutes.
If you think you have it, you can check your answer by hovering over the white ‘Music for Nurses’ bottom right.
Got it. took me a little bit and i didnt cheat. The hard part was reading the first letter in the first word. The second word was easy to get.
Not going to give spoilers
I think it must be – “oceansze”
I tried to overtake this illusion for the whole day in my iGoogle page whenever I opened it, but I couldn’t. At last I came to this page and it took really I think 4 minutes, (after reading your lines that its a name ;) ) to decode it.
If its fast then I think its may be because by profession I am a graphic designer.
Odsosze is what I got out. That does not seem right.
OCEANSIZE 20 sec.
It took me about 1 or 1,5 minutes to recognize a word that made sense.
5min! +-few secs :]
Ocean Size took me less than 30 seconds. Did I win a prize!?
lol…. i doubt u won a prize :D
i found the second word in several seconds but the first one took me a couple of minutes