By Vurdlak on March 6, 2012, with 314 Comments
How many red balls can you count in this photo below? Take a brief moment and count before you continue. Did you say there were five red balls? Are you absolutely positively certain? Recount again. Can you see another? Look closer. Are you positive there are only five balls? The longer you look at the photo and try to figure it out, the more surprised you’ll be when I reveal the optical illusion it hides. How about this for a hint! Didn’t help? How about another hint… Admit it, you never thought the answer was right there in front of your eyes the whole time. If you enjoy this type of optical illusions, be sure to head over and watch the Awareness Test video. Thanks goes to Deceptology blog for bringing this to my attention!
Notice how many red balls are there in this photo?
(370 votes)
Um…..Let me tell you what i saw
-Twelve Fingers
-Five Red Dots
i hate candy!
i saw 7 balls and 4 pupils
Oh duh, there are twelve fingers. I didnt see that.
Exactly what I saw ;-)
I find this riddle a bit stupid because they don’t conceal the fact that you have to find something weird in the photo, they just ask you to count the red balls.
there are eight red ball for there are three extra ones in the top three
same
I saw the same as the other two but I think it’s some sort of a game because in one of the red circles theres red lines arond it like youd see in a shoting game
WTF! so? the guy has 12 fingers?! how does that help?
THERE IS ONLY 5 CIRCLE/BALL THINGS!!!!
6 fingers in each hand, but still 5 red balls
i found it, it was sinch as dude!!!!!!!!!!!
You guys are missing the point – the illusion is not an optical one, but rather it is one of the mind. There are only five red dots, but that was not the object of the observation. The original intent if for you to observe the 12 fingers, not the five dots. The poster was trying to convey that people get so caught up in trying to find a specific answer to a specific problem that they forget to observe all of the other things that are unique about their given situation. Cheers, mates! =)
yeah but we don’t really care if there are six fingers. The guy in a gorilla suit was different, because we weren’t being told (or strongly suggested towards) something that wasn’t true.
Maybe you are the one missing the point Truth. There’s no optical illusion here and I was not in any way surprised. We were looking at the detail of the red circles and nothing else.
People often have to focus on one thing and simplify it to try to answer a question. So no, this image didn’t “convey” anything at all to me.
I think that the 12 fingers was supposed to be obvious and the illusion was your disbelief that you counted the 5 dots correctly, the first time. Anyways, it seems that most people have found the fingers. Lesson: don’t doubt yourself.
how many red balls you find? are you sure there were five red balls?
Recount again. Can you see another? Look closer. Are you positive there are only five balls?
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yes there were only five red balls! we don’t care how many fingers he have. you brought us that red ball topic, stick to it! you insist that we’re counting it wrong, telling us to recount again? -_-”
there are 12 fingers and 5 red balls
This is about drawing you in into clicking more of the links for the hints. Which increase the advertising revenue. The six fingers thing I guess makes the image much more “interesting” and probabaly makes you more likely to think that you are “missing and circle”, as the image has a “quality of strangeness” to it, which is hard to pin down.
Good stuff.
When you look at it for a longer time , you can see 8 balls .
try it guys and be patient .
If you look at it long enough a dot disappears…least that’s what I got. The “Hints” were crap though!
I first only saw five ball. After the hint, I chuckled when I saw five balls and twelve fingers..lol Then I saw ten balls and twelve fingers. he he he
he got twelve fingers…actually i have fifteen!
ok i give up now please say where is the last one..
Read the instructions again. They say “you’ll be surprised at the optical illusion it hides.” That’s the kind of an illusion it is–a hidden one when you’re staring at what you think will be the optical illusion.
There are 5 red balls, yes I’m positive.
Dumb ! 5 balls + 12 fingers = Laaaame
middle finger in both hands are the same!
There is still
no
optical
illusion.
“You guys are missing the point – the illusion is not an optical one, but rather it is one of the mind.”
You know what that’s called? Not an illusion.