Thumbs Up Illusion

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…

disneyland-ad-optical-illusion

114 Replies to “Thumbs Up Illusion”

  1. 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.

  2. 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?

  3. i don’t see it… except there are only three fingers visible and smallest finger is hidden inside the fist (thats quite visible)

  4. 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…

  5. 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!!

  6. 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!

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. Anyway they say the dude has 4 fingers and 4 me it is only hiding the last finger and i can do that.Really!!!!!!!!!!

  11. 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.

  12. 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!

  13. Where’s the illusion? People are born with different configurations (commonly referred to as birth defects).
    My poor Mickey! My poor Mickey!

  14. 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?

  15. 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.

  16. 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

  17. Lol, Rather than notice the illusion, I actually spotted your spelling error with the word bellow. Good illusion by the way. Keep it up !

  18. 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

  19. 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.

    1. 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.

  20. 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

  21. 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!

  22. I got distracted by the ripple in the wall paper and didn’t notices the fingers till I left the room and came back

  23. 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.

  24. 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….

  25. don’t post stupid thing like this in future it waste our time or either mention what the illusion is so that we can see what actually you wanna show.

  26. I can’t believe I spotted the three fingers plus thumb right awyay, and then I lost like 10 minutes looking for some “illusion”.
    I did notice it was Photoshop though, because the palm of the hand seems to have been ‘patched’, but I don’t see any “illusion”.

  27. The Illusion in this picture is the relation ship of the hand with the cartoons remember cartoons have only 3 fingers….. the hand resembles it and shows the relation of humans with cartoons…

  28. It took me about 5 whole minutes to see that there were only 3 fingers. Granted I wasn’t concentrating on the pic the whole time. I have a lack of detail orientation, too, and I’ve conceded that this is the way I am. lol

  29. The illusion is that his pinky finger is tucked under the other ones so it just looks like he only has 3 fingers. Try it yourself, it’s a convincing illusion.

    1. Its a fat person, so its just the fat folding over It happens to everyone, but its very noticeable on fat people.

  30. and he called that an illusion? O.o guess he don’t even know the meaning of the word “illusion”. boooooooooooorinf

  31. Hi there!

    Here are my ideas about this illusion…

    1-This fat pinky cant be hidden
    2.Can’t there be two hands?
    3.Why are the stripes there?

    good illusion if it is…

  32. I was so busy staring at the “thumbs up” that I didn’t notice the 3 fingers until I went back and understood the first puzzle and returned to this one.

  33. This little piggy went to market,
    This little piggy stayed at home,
    This little piggy had roast beef,
    and this little piggy had none,
    and this little… Oh, I’m out of piggies. Now I’m an angry bird.

  34. I have a cousin that was actually born missing fingers and toes. If she saw this, it would probably upset her. :/

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