I’m proud to announce that we have started the “Co-editors” beta project. As the title says, there will be some guest bloggers writing articles in the following weeks. The reason I started this, is because there are so many submissions and illusions on my hard drive, that I can’t manage to post them all. This way we’ll have multiple bloggers writing entires for this blog, which means more illusions for you. We already have our first guest blogger, but I’ll keep him a secret until he properly introduces himself. For now this will only be a beta project, but if it works as I imagined (and there is no reason why it shouldn’t), we’ll have more and more posts each day, and probably promote these guest bloggers to full time co-editors.
I would like to take this opportunity invite you, if you are natural in English language, and have experience with blogger. Contact me if you are interested in becoming guest blogger. It’s really simple. I’ll give you material (illusions), and you are free to write whatever feels right (explanation, review of the photo etc.). You can also compose your own stuff. Let’s see how this goes…
For today, I give you Mourits de Beer’s “Count the Spots” illusion variation. As I said, it is variation of very famous optical illusion, that was used many times, even in some commercials. As simple as the picture below seems, it hides mysterious orange spots (in the grid crossings). Your assignment is to count them. Can you manage? This is what Mourits said: “Another illusion I somehow found while messing around. I’m sure that I don’t need to explain”.
Just count the red squares.
i’ve seen like a 100 of these illusions, isnt there anything else?
first comment?!
um… i see the spots but wenever i try focusing my eyes on them they disappear! they’re on most of the grid crossings but i dont no if they’re on all of them.
someone help me out?
that illusion again??? c’mon, this website is better than that!
182 orange dots.
Well, not 182, 181 because you dont see a dot on the point your focusing on.
Well, actually 0 dots. Its just an illusion =P.
P.S. yes i made it
i aer colourblind, this one doesn’t work for me. interesting, but thats the only interesting thing about this recycled illusion. come on, give us some real stuff
Nitai si right. There are 182 dots, one of them in each cross. 13*14=182
uhm…I don’t see any orange dots
Why count something that’s not there?
maybe its all the drugs ive taken but i only see random dots scattered
Give ’em a break. If you don’t like the published illusions – go find your own and submit them!
I’m tired of the complaints – love the site, love the illusions – even the ones similar to others.
Keep up the good work and good luck on the guest blogger/co-editor project!
I don’t feel so bad. I’m not the only one who doesn’t see orange dots. Bur I am sure they are there, but where?
I don'[t get it. Are we counting the orange squares? I count 14 across and 15 down. When I look at any orange square, it doesn’t disappear. What is supposed to happen?
I don’t think there are any spots at all.
It’s a game our eyes play.
there is no orange dot in this picture !!
boooring. come on you can do better than this. your website is great!!!!
also, if u stare at the picture long enough and look somewhere blank, like the wall,ull see the picture in reverse, with cyan squares and red crossings
this gave me a headache. no more of these please.
they are red…¬¬ n btw..its 210..
there are 182 orange dots =)
Wow thats alot of dots i would never have the patience needed to count all of those, yet for my exam i counted the ceiling tiles but thats a diffrent story!
The illusion dots actually look green to me for some reason . . . I’m betting its just my vision being messed up and all though.
You can’t count the dots anyways, because they aren’t there.
to tell you all the truth i see one…if i focus on the center then i see one really big in the middle like with only the 10 blocks in each corner not included in it.
to tell you the truth i see only one big dot. when i focus in the middle all of it is orange except the 10 squares in each corner
there r none
yup………… there is no orange dots in that pic. it’s red dots.
focus is the right answer!!!
there r 15 down and 9 across, therefore there are 135 dots.
wait im confused orange dots or red squares?
…I agree, there are exactly 182 orange dots, some of them are visible, some of them not, because they dissapear and then they are there again
What the hell? I don’t get it.
common stop calling this column as Might Optical Illusion ..how abt silly run of the mill illusion ….really disappointed with the kind of stuff thats coming up these days ..GUYS PLEASE REINVENT
195
i don’t see any orange squares
dude i dont see any orange dots!….
Oh dear oh dear, there are no orange spots. Why are people putting down how many they can count? I know how/why the illusion works but am not going to bother explaining the internal workings of the human eye and the signals it sends to the brain when confronted with an image like this. Yes I can see orange spots. But the question is how many orange spots are there? The answer is none. Live with it, deal with it!
99 orange spots
eh, Ive’ seen this one. good site though.
i dont know if it’s just me….but when i cross my eyes and stare at it, i feel VERY strange
Idk how, but I can see the spots, even patches of them, when I focus on them… Strange..
You can see the dots its just when you look at the orange dots they turn blue and when you dont look at them they are orange. If you dont see them then it means your stupid or color blind.
All I know is…is that there are 210 squares.
there are 182 dots….
but all iilusion at a time u dont see all…
its just maths involved with the illusion isnt it?
cool that is so so so so so so so much cool i have to go tell my mom my dad and my sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
182 but you can also se the ones off the illusion when you are counting the side ooo so do we count those too?
i do not see any orange spots, instead i see vertical gray/blue lines running down the middle of the red squares
I AM NOT COLORBLIND. I DO NOT SEE ANY ORANGE SPOTS, VERTICAL, HORIZONTAL OR ANYTHING. THIS ONLY WORKS ON “BLACK DOTS” FOR ME. SORRY VURDLAK FOR TYPING IN CAPS I ACCIDENTALLY HAD CAPS ON AND COULDNT BE BOTHERED TO DO THE WHOLE THING AGAIN. SORRY I KNOW YOUR BUSY MAN.
LOL! There are no orange dots there! I don’t see any!
I didnt see anything !!
I see squares and some dots on them
YaY It OnLy WoRkS FoR BlAcK AnD WhItE
i counted 210 spots …. i think im right, no ?
I am pretty sure that there are 169 orange dots because the last blue line on all sides does not have dots
There is 210 squares I did the math 14+15= 210
Um there can only be 182, I guess you can’t count
they can count, except they are counting the squares not dots (they can’t read descriptions/titles though).
There isn’t any at all.
It jest looks like it.
Yeah! You’re right! I’ve read about this illusion somewhere (your eyes make the dots or something) anyhoo there are no dots in reality!
i honestly dont see and dots at all
I don’t see any spots…
There isn’t any orange spots it just seems like it. There’s “178” of them.
just relax and they will appear on the blue grid.
their there! just in bad quality
oh i see them but how the heck could u count them they vanish
Yeah. there are definately 210. times the side by the top thing
272 SQUARES, but no dots.
i know its 210…………..
It is, by Fact, 156.
Yes it is , 182 spots… 13 vertical lines and 14 horizontal lines…. 13*14 = 182 ;)
there aren’t any orange spots there are RED SQUARES!!!!!!!!
You guys happen to be mistaking the squares for spots.
It takes a while to notice, but after a certain amount of time staring at the picture, you’ll see orange spots appearing on the intersections of the blue lines.
I’m pretty sure that’s what he’s talking about.
182 for sure
There is no orange dots.. That is the illusion! :D
actually there is 210 squares and 156 orange spots all of yall need glases
I can’t. It’s hurting my eyes, making me dizzy, and headache inducing >.<
195 dots is what i get from it
oops i meant 182 dots
that is if their were orange dots
No orange dots, just your eyes playing tricks – which is the point of the illusion!
i can’t see any orange spots O.o
If there was an orange dot at every intersection, there would be 14×13=182.
But I guess the illusion is that there actually are NO orange dots at all.
210 squares counted both sides 14*15=210
210 squares
182 dots
15 times 15 = 210
I can’t see any orange spots no matter how much I stare.. am I color blind?
210 orange blocks…..
I dont see anything but red squares…wheres the illusion
I counted 0
It’s there! Look closely. Try to move your eyes from the red to blue then to red again continuously. There will be a slight orange dots in the out corners of the squares. It will be gone and appear again.
210
Actually its 210 orange blocks 14 x 15 = 210