Can you find the fault in these two vintage puzzle cards? I admit it is much easier when you know what you are looking for, but this time I haven’t even a clue what the real question should be. I’m really lousy at spotting illusions. It is just that I adore posting those that puzzle me the most. If I see the answer in the first second, somehow I dislike posting those kind of images. Perhaps these two cards are really simple, perhaps the illusion is terrible… but what can I say, I haven’t spotted anything weird in them! Looking forward to your comments! Check some of our previous puzzle cards if you like this.
The guy’s head??
omg- the clouds? The second one looks normal…
Well, in the first one, the builder is installing the shingles wrong. You have to start at the bottom and work your way up!
first one he has tiles for a head
second one, the river seems to be flowing out of nowhere, else wise there’d be light shining through
just my naive guesses
In the second picture, the “keystone” of the bridge arc is upside down.
Picture 1 – Roofing is installed from the bottom edge up to the top.
Picture 2 – The keystone in the bridge art is installed upside down. This bridge will fail in a short period of time.
In the first picture the shingles should start at the eaves and go up to the peak of the roof.
Second pic looks like the stream starts at the bridge.
In the first one, shingles are not installed from the top down, but from the bottom up.
-Rand
These aren’t optical illusions so much as questions of logic. If you know how things SHOULD be built, then the errors in the constructions illustrated are obvious.
Don’t know why I didn’t see it quicker. In the bottom one the keystone is upside-down.
-Rand
In the first picture, the man has no head showing above the toolbox on his shoulder. In the second picture, where does the river come from? There is no river showing on the back side of the bridge.
You install roof tiles from the bottom up, not top down. The keystone in the bricked arch (the yellow trapezoid) is upside down, so it could not hold up the bridge.
These ideas may be way off base — they are certainly not like solutions to the typical illusions. But it is only thing I can see.
In second one, the man has really short legs, I think
In the first one I don’t see any illusion, but in the second one there is something wrong with the guy. By his slender looking his feet should nearly touch the river because there are only one or two lines of stone from top to buttom of the bridge’s wall.
In the first picture, the man is too big for the house.
In the second one, there is no space for the man’s legs…
You guys are good! I don’t even know how a bridge keystone should look like (now I knew after a quick googling.
I also think the man in 2nd pic has too short legs.
The bow of stones from the bridge are upside down, they should be the other way up, now its not holding on to each other
There are no lintols above the top floor windows
In the first picture, look at the bushes in the background. The one in the middle looks like a woman to me (looking left)… And to her right there’s a bunny shape…
M
If you have ever roofed a house you know that it is shingled from bottom to top, otherwise water would run under the tiles or shingles. So you are correct – from bottom to top is right. #1.
#2, the keystone is slanted the wrong way. The load from each side should “pinch” the keystone via gravity to keep the bridge or arch in shape. The force of the shown picture would press the keystone down and out of the arch.
The carrier in pic #1 is called a hod.
In the first one, the guy has one hand holding the ladder and the other arm is tucked underneath the first. Nothing seems to be holding onto the shingles – unless this guy has excellent balancing skills…In the second – nothing.
In the first pic, there is nothing holding up the box on the shoulder. The left arm is going under the right arm, and the right am seems to be holding on the the ladder. The man is a little too big too, as someone said. He seems to be taller than the door. He may be installing the shingles the wrong way, but maybe he is just a novice and W.H. Smith is a brand new company with no track record?
The guy on the bridge has either very short legs or is on his knees.
– Rand Rahl
Firs might be the roof building way… or the fact that the guy isn’t actually holding the box.
The second image is clear…
There is no river on the other side of the bridge. Or the guy is actually on his knees. He looks short.
First picture: No person can climb a ladder with just one hand!
Second picture: There is no river on the left.
i believe the fault in the first pivture is the roof. i think, that it is impossible to build a roof from the top to the bottom.
okay.. 1st pic
the shingles are being installed wrong. That is NOT a toolbox and yes ppl CAN climb a ladder with one hand. What he has is a device with a pole on the bottom used to carry a large stack of bricks or in this case shingles. He is holding it with one hand and his shoulder.
Second Pic. The Keystone and the river flowing past the bridge. A person having short legs is not uncommon and thus should not be considered a illusion.
For the first picture I believe that the wood should go on before you put the tiles!
The second picture I would agree with the arch. One of the blocks is upside down the bridge would not hold for one second like that.
First picture, man shingling the roof is doing it backwards, he should start at the bottom of the roof and work upwards.
The second picture, the arch under the bridge, the key stone at the top is upside down along with the rest of the stones, if this was a real arch it would not stand.
THE 1ST ONE, THE GUY IS CARRYING A TRIANGULAR BOX ON HIS SHOULDER… THATS ODD.
AND 2… THE RIVER IS FLOWING NOWHERE.
I bet W.H. Smith built the bridge too… never hire that guy!
The first picture is that the ladder and worker have no shadow. This is bright daylight.
Picture 1 You don’t carry tiles in a HOD so they are probably bricks! (you carry tile directly on head using a cap(I used to be a roofer)
Picture 2 I think people are right the Keystone is wrong.
It is the perspective on both. Vanishing point and the scales are all wrong.
Picture 1: The guy is installing the shingles wrong. And the right window is does not match the other 3 on that side.
Picture 2: The keystone is not correct.
These seem to be building or construction related.
I think in the first picture the perspective is wrong (if you’ld make all horizontal lines longer they wouldn’t cross the same point) and in the second one its teh stone in the middle of the bridge, it ought to be upside down, this way it would fall into the river.
The first one, the shingler is starting at the top and working down, instead up down to up as he should.
The second, the keystone of the bridge is upside-down. The center stone in the arch holds the rest of the stones, and should wedge in. The way it is now would push it out.
In the first one the ladder is missing one step, apparently. I think there should be one between his feet.
In the second, the river goes nowhere. The ground on the other side of the bridge is higher than the path he is walking in… These are my guesses :P
I agree with all of the earlier posts about the roof in the first picture and the river and keystone in the second picture. But, shouldn’t the clouds, in both pictures, be coming from the sky instead of from the tree lines? Just a little question.
First pic, should not the hod(or whatever it is called) that he is carrying the tiles in have a handle that is missing?
it’s the ladder in the first one – it looks like its coming towards the viewer instead of towards the wall.
Sorry guys… I think the point here is the fact that the size of the people is weird! In the first one the man is a giant compared to the door and in the second one it seems like the man couldn’t have any legs!?
The photo of the house builder is that he needed to put plyboard down first before he shingled it. He is also supposed to start from the bottom & work his way up. The second photo has water on only one side of the bridge. The clouds also look like they are upside down in both photos.
People the first picture is not wrong with shingles being put on wrong. In fact starting from the top will give you a straighter line and also you arnt stepping on them. By scuffing a shingle you can reduce its lifetime from 5-10 years! Most contracters who care will be build it this way such as my dads company, however the do it yourself people “like everyone on this site” will start from the bottom and work up because they dont know better,or people build it bottem up for speed, plus if you go down to florida youll see everyone building top down because its just not as hot as building bottem up! That being said I dont see a single thing wrong with the first picture still………
in the first pircture: isn’t that men a little bit tall for the house?
in the second picture:
his legs should be like 30 cm.!
I am not sure about the first one. It kinda looks like the bushes are in the shape of a person. In the second one, it looks like the mouth of the river is coming from the bridge itself. The bridge actuly somewhat looks like a sewer tunnel maybe and the guy is walking over it.
In the first one, the builder’s middle initial should be R.
this is not an missing item illusion. Its an perspective fault. In the first picture, the ladder steps are horizontal. In the last picture all the bricks are horizontal too.
On a second look at the roof at the 1st pic. we see that the picture is painted at a straight perceptive but that the roof seem to be painted from a lower.
I think in the first one could be the roof and the sticks are standing on a wall?? i think is the grass
and in the second one, the man´s reflect on the river is in the wrong place
XOXO
the 1st one the clouds are heads and for the 2nd one the keay stone is up side down!!!
Guys, it’s just:
a) the tiles
b) the keystone
That’s all.
Everything else you mention is just due to mediocre drawing.
I guarantee it.
OH FOR HEAVENS SAKE PPL
LOOK AT THE SECOND ONE
WHEREEEEEEEE IS THE RIVER COMING FROM???? nowhere!!!!
the first i think is like everyone said….the whole ur supposed to build up…bu ya the second is the river.
Guys, it’s just
a) the tiles
b) the keystone
Everything else that has been mentioned can be accounted for by the mediocrity of the drawing.
In these types of puzzles there is customarily only one thing wrong.
1. House windows on bottom- 1 too big and 1 too small compared to the upper windows.
2. There is no river on the other side of the bridge.
Well in the first one, besides the fact that the shingles are being installed improperly, I can see a cow, a sheep and a rabbit.
The illusion in 1st image is the variable direction of lower ladder. Talk about an unstable ladder! The large rung gap helps.
2nd image, the man has short legs.
All other guesses are drawing styles of the day, [no paint shop here], artists lack of building skills & copy mistakes [creek behind bridge].
A Printmaker
okay.. its NOT the shingles.. its that there is NOT building permit!!. AND that ladder is NOT safety approved. Those are NOT proper foot wear and the Builder’s sign is WAY out side of local ordinance on posting signs.. The door color is against local policy.. oh the list is endless.. and the bridge.. that is a tar pit and Toulouse-Lautrec HAS short legs.. also that is a no smoking designated area, being it is tar pits.
ok okay.. just joking.
In the first one, the bottom right hand window is missing its intersecting lines, its only got one line.
Clouds are wrong.
I haven’t found anything yet. But I’m pretty sure it’s not the roofing. Plus the keystone looks right to me. BUT WHAT I DID FIND IS THAT IN BOTH THE CLOUDS LOOK SUPER WIERD, maybe it has something to do with that.
To me, I think it has to do with the weird shape of the CLOUDS and TREES.
The perspective in both aren’t right. But maybe that’s just the artist that’s not that good
also w.h. smith is not a building company, its a bookstore – im not sure if its relevant!
1st picture: The builder sign says W.H. 5mith
Okay, so obviously the dude is going up the ladder the wrong way – you can see the ladder in front of his pants.
The second picture still freaks me out but I”m gonna guess its the reflectin of the water…
for the first one: the tiles on the roof have an extreme vanishing point compared to the rest of the picture
for the second one: there is no river on the other side of the bridge.
Man, i don’t know about shingles and keystones, but i think the real illusion/mistakes are:
The guy in the first pics head, and the fact that the river comes from nowhere in the second pic.
Lol- yes, unless you’re a “hod”? Is that right? And someone who builds bridges, to the rest of us, it’s the msitakes above :P
There is a broken window in the first photo.
The roofing and keystone ideas are good, but I don’t think this is meant to be a trivial question. I belive it’s just a matter of relative sizes. The man in the first image is way too big, and the man in the second image has abnormally short legs. In the second one, you could also say that it’s the river, but, we can’t see directly behind the bridge, it may be flowing that way.
Like Heather said- the clouds are coming from the hills, it's plausible, but it should be from the top… ha ha my second post [^] was a guess, but weee~ I mentioned clouds! <3
AND the windows are different in 1st pic!
What happened to the showing of the answer behind tags?
Only problem with the first one is – do we know the tiler is putting the tiles on? If he’s taking them down he’s doing them in the correct order
There are some minor perspective flaws in both pictures (who cares). The first may have a rung missing(bad drawing)and a hod may be carrying bricks instead of tiles but the simple thing is roof tiles go bottom to top. The second is simply the upside down keystone. These type of cards are not complex or tricky but something commonly known that can easily be overlooked. That is commonly known to those in past years.
I think it’s the clouds.
well the first one … he’s got a tool box for his head …
the second one the river comes from nowhere and if you notice it looks like his legs are REALLY short
how do you know that the red stuff is the shingles and not the brown stuff? if the brown stuff is the shingles, then they are installed properly.
These are more architectural mistakes than optical illussions…
The first one was harder to identify for me… the fact is that roofs of tiles are build from down to top
For the second frame I could identify almost immediately that the key stone on second vintage is upside-down…
Alright so if we’re going stictly on illusion:
Picture 1: the shingles that the roofer is carrying is his “head”
Picture 2: the river/stream appears to have no source on the opposite side of the bridge
If we’re going on logic though:
Picture 1: the shingles are being applied in the wrong direction.
Picture 2: the keystone is upside down.
I really liked this “illusion” becuase it did touch on both!
There is a 5 instead of an S in pic # 1 on the sign.
1st image: Everyone else has noticed the shingles, but has anyone else noticed that he can’t make a decent window? Shouldn’t all of the windows on the front be the same or at least have a pattern?
1) second storey isn’t tall enough, shingles wrong, brick work is done so he must be removing them, shadow of man and ladder missing.
2)should be indirect light at least from under bridge, bridge proportions out of whack ie as he walks across his feet should be visible underneath that or he’s knee-boarding across in that case he’s dressed inapropriately, and keystone upside down.
EVERYBODDY WHO ADDED THE COMMENT THING IS WRONG
K THIS IS HOW IT IS
IN THE FIRST PIC THE BUY IS INSTALLIN THE SHINGLES WRONG AND HIS HEAD IS MISSIN
AND IN THE SECOND PIC RIVER COMES OUT OFF NO WHERE BRIDGE SHINGLE R PLACED WRONG
ALSO BOTH THE GUYS IN THE PIC R GAY
IN THE 1ST PIC THE BUSH ON THE RIGHT KIND OFF LOOKS LIKE A NIDORAN P0KEMON
ALSO NOT REALLLLLLLY AN OPTICAL ILLUSION JUST SPOT WHATS WRONG WITH THE PIC
In the top picture, the roof line is too low. The second story floor would be somewhere between the lower windows and the higher ones. If you compare the worker’s height you will see he would not be able to stand up near the windows in the upstairs rooms without bumping his head on the ceiling. But perhaps he very tall or the inhabitants are small.
You don’t have to have construction experience to see he is tiling the roof the wrong way, just use logic. You start at the bottom so you always have tile to stand on. If you walk across the untiled parts to get to the top you might fall through.
pic 1.. in the right part of the pic with the trees it looks like theres a bunny…
pic 2.. i don’t see a river in the backgroung nd the way the tunne l is illustrated it looks as if it is going in to the wall…
First picture: is the shingles on the house are put on wrong. The second: is the keystone in the bridge is put in upside-down, and there seems to be a branch of leaves that has no tree to attach to.
i was gonna say that there are random chunks taken out of the tree in the first, and the tree in the second.
the first one has legs and feet in the breaks in the clouds. Have no idea on the second one
Oh Yeah, you can’t nail shingles to rafters either; you need decking put down first, then tar paper.
In the roofer picture the top floor windows lack upper cornices.
In the bridge picture the keystone is inverted. It would fall out.
As for the river, it could just take a quick turn to the right and disappear behind the bridge?!
In the first picture the man is a brick carrier And you start at the bottom when putting shingles up
Top Pict:
The clouds look like silhouettes of the treeline—as if the sun was on the ground, below the trees shinning up. And…everything in the puzzle looks like its been colored properly except the trees. Should the trees not be green?
I agree with all.
The roof is shingled the wrong way, and there is no river continuing on past the bridge in the background.
I also noticed at first that the “S” in Smith Bulider seems to look like a “5” to me not sure if it’s just me but let me know what you think.
Also note how big the box of shingles is, if you are climbing a ladder with one hand and carrying a box of shingles, don’t you think you would be leaning forward to better balance yourself, there fore his head would be hidden by the box. Thanks
1: you have to start from the bottom to the top of the roof, when placing shingels.
2: There is no river on the other side of the bridge.
Quite clearly the ldder in teh first picture is upside down and in teh second picture the guy is walking backwards, probably for a joke.
they seem to both be visions of size
#1 the guy is a little taller than 1 story in tht house
#2 the guys legs are too short for his physique
Pic 1: the ladder doesnt projects a shadow
pic 2: who knows
In the first image; there needs to be ply wood layed down first before shingles are placed over the roof.
The second image; the river does not continue on the other end of the bridge…only hills of grass…
I agree with those that say the shingles would be installed from the bottom up for the first picture, but if it is something as simple as what’s wrong, I would say that it is the vertical pane that is missing from the far right window.
GOD.
there is a lot of fauls here…in the first one (the most obvious thing) is than this guy doesn´t have a hand!!!in the second image, the river come from anywhere, There is no river showing on the back side of the bridge, furthermore, the guy´s legs can´t exist in this very small space. :) ta-raaaaaannnnn!!!
the second one:
the river does not continue past the bridge…
I know!
In the first one, the windows are all different sizes. Who would do that?
In the second one, the guy is smoking in a public place! GASP!
No, I’m not being serious.
The guy on the 2 picture has a frigging short leg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the first one the ilusion is in the stairway!! is an imposible object…
There is no “optical” illusion in this
any way its more about knowledge
The top puzzle – The roof isn’t on yet. The guy is putting tiles ,bricks or whatever on the rafters. Put the roof on first.
The bottom puzzle – Everyone is getting this. The “cap” or “Key” is fact upside down. The bridge fell down before the poor fellow ever stepped on it. It will not hold its own weight.
Top windows in the house have no support on top of them. (what you call those beams?) Window frame on top is missing
Plus indeed, weird way of tiling your roof, top to bottom)
second one, the key stone in the arge of the bridge can fall out: / \ should be \ / of course
first picture. Bushes are blue and door is green. should be other way around.
Second picture should have more land before larger body of water begins to reach the bridge. Not in proportion.
the clouds would be overhead, not coming up from the horizon. It is dark inside the house even though there is no roof to block the sunlight. The perspective lines do not end at the same focal point.
Deciding from the themes of the images, I think that those were made to point out the mistakes in the construction, rather than to illustrate any optical illusions. So everything else may be considered more as mistakes, rather than illusions. The mistakes are many on both images.
Picture #1
1. Of course, the roof, being installed loosely.
2. Scale problem: The house is too big for the man to live in (yet I don’t think the painter had ever noticed this thing: I suppose it is done unintentionally).
3. A part of the background cloud covers the left part of the forest. This one is really is an Escher type illusion.
4. The triangular shape of the shingle is not a mistake. It is very useful for locking it between the scaffolds.
Pisture #2
1. The keystone direction is the opposite of the correct.
2. Again the scale problem, this time with the lower part of the person on the bridge.
3. No river continuation. The other side shouldn’t be visible from this angle (compare the wideness of the bridge), and in this case the river continuation must be at visible on the left. Of course, if this is a river, and not an underground outlet.
4. Wrong shade on the surface of the river.
This is so much I have seen.
When are were these created…could the strange looking clouds be respective of maps.
Aside from all the obvious,
Has anyone noticed that the side window in picture1 has the crossbar thingy on an angle…..
Also that bloke on the ladder, his left foot is not even on a rung, there does not seem to be one there.
The river in picture2 seems to flow into grass after it goes under the bridge.
First picture has a broken window on the left as well….
oh i see it the first one he started at the top and the second the water seems to go nowhere!!!
I would agree that the faults lie in the suspect building techniques; this will come as no surprise to anyone in the U.K. who will know that W.H. Smith is in fact a newspaper and book seller, not a builder.
if the clouds are far enough away it would appear to be coming from the tree line. with the first one there is also no shadow from the ladder. as seen there is a shadow on the side of the building and also along the tree line but not from the ladder.
In the first there is no shadow of the man and the ladder !
The first one, the tiles he carries and at the boxes are pink, and the ones on the roof are red.
The second one, the river flows nowhere, the main stone is upside down, but its the right.
none of those things is an optical illusion though
so they don’t know how to shingle properly or make the bridge perfect – or the river goes nowhere – thats not an illusion – just a weird little detail
an optical illusion can be seen two different ways – u just see the same thing
In the first one the illusion is, dependeing on how do you see it, the man is putting bricks on the roof made of wood, or he’s putting wood in the roof made of bricks.
You just have to try to notice what is upside and what is downside
its the clouds. the white part should be blue, and visa versa
in the 1st one,the roof is wrong and the windows are strange too.
in the 2nd one,the river just appears and the stone in the bridge was wrong.
In the top picture, the door handle appears to be on the wrong side of the door. A left handed door.
Can any one else see Little Bo Peep with a lamb or goat etc in the trees, between the builder and the sign? And maybe a rabbit behind and to the right of the sign in the trees?
The sign on the first picture, has the number 5 instead of the letter S.
In the second picture the man has no legs or they are so short.
The guy on the first picture is too tall to pass the door
On the second picture, the man’s legs are way too short
In the first illusion the ladder carries on past the bottom of the door – is the door to high or the ladder in a hole!?
It may be incorrect way to build the roof like that but it is not impossible. Maybe the artist knows not how to do it :) House also seems to have broken window (left) and it may lead to think the builder as a incompetent carpenter. More alarming in this picture is the color of the trees in the background. I have not seen blue trees ever!
Also it is possible to build bridge which will hold for a short time. Maybe the way cumulus clouds gather over the mountain line in this fair weather is impossible. I wouldn’t since i am not the weather man.
In the day of this drawing, I doubt the shingles were laid on stringers, or from the peak toward the eaves. In the other, the keystone in the bridge arch is upsidedown, It would fall out, and the bridge would collapse.
Perspective on both
The apex of the roof is at a much steeper(but not by much) angle than the rest of the lines on the house. The sign also makes it easier to spot this. Note that the slope of the horizontal lines of the sign is not as steep as that of the top of the roof.
The “rail” of the bridge and the arch that supports the bottom doesn’t match up. Note that the keystone is to the left of where the rail crests. The crest and the keystone should align vertically.
The first picture – it is not possible to go up the ladder on this way.
I think they are just bad drawings….
I agree about the clouds and the sky.
Keep it simple all. Roof is being shingled from top to bottom thats wrong should go bottom to top, he is using a hod thats the way they did it years ago with clay tiles.
Second pic its the keystone
It seems to me that the ladder rung spacing is off under the roofer’s feet. There’s not a double space gap, but there’s a 1.5x gap, for sure.
if the bridge is built of bricks then the roadbed that goes over it would be brick too not dirt. You cannot support dirt over a river.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!
I’m telling you it’s all about the size of the men !
Pic 1 : the guy is too tall to pass the door
Pic 2 : the guy’s legs are too short !!
W.M. 5mith?
as many have already said I believe it’s the way that the two are built… someone in construction would spot it imediatly. A keystone is wider at the top than at the bottom. It’s purpose is to direct the weight of the highest point of the arch down across the arch and into the farthest ends of the curves. In roman and other archetecture, you see sometimes hundreds of arches repeated all supporting each other at the bottoms and all with a keystone at the top.
And yes, shingles are installed from the bottom to the top. They overlap each other so that each row that is placed higher allows water to roll down onto the next layer and so on so that water doesn’t get underneath them. It’s a simple logic that’s been used since woven houses.
If you notice the white clouds are below the blue sky in both pictures, I wonder if this is related.
In the first picture, I suppose you could have a huge pile of blue vegetation/trees in the background, but all blue seems odd. I would think most of the trees (esp deciduous trees) should be green.
The guy’s posture while climbing the ladder looks a bit odd…
And the sky looks as though it has been drawn on the clouds instead of the other way round in both pictures…
in fact the ladder looks like it is missing a rung at the point where the man is climbing.
Top one is there are no hands holdiong the box on the guys shoulder.
The bottom one is there is no rivier flowing on the left of the bridge. :)
no no no no no. your all wrong.
the first fault is that is say w.h 5mith instead of w.h smith.
get me now???
Smith is spelled with a 5, the shingles are being installed in reverse, and there appears to be a cow in the trees.
his head aint weird, its just hes holdig tiles next 2 his hed
In the first Pic the guy is installing the shingles all wrong, plus there is no plywood base over the slats, the second pic the river is flowing from behind the bridge which is built wrong with the top center keystone. As far as the person haveing short legs I think that back when the cards were made you have to remember ppl use to wear long coats and there for makes it look like he has shorter legs.
first picture the perspective is wrong.
the rooflines should be drawn with the same angle.
Now the left of the building is bigger than the right of the building
I agree with MUSICALROSE what happen to the window that showed the answer. I don’t know if all these people are correct with their answers or if they are just guessing. I am not a carpenter so none of it makes sense to me. I think you should put the answer back on the page that was a good feature on the site. I love the site I look at it every day. Thank you for all your hard work on it :)
W.H. 5MITH
BUILDER
In the 1st, look at the window facing us. It is like a small picture of the house taken from our end of the house. There’s the house, ladder, and even the pile of lumber.
Are the clouds blue or just in the wrong place????
There is rung missing on the ladder in the first one.
Why would they make a picture where only if you knew about construction or whatever, then you would know about how to shingle a roof?
And the second one is the water. It goes….or starts nowhere.
I think the illusion is that in the first one he is installing the shingles correctly but it looks like the old shingles (red) are the ones being installed.
The illusion on the second one must have something to do with not only the river running from nowhere but the road as well.
Yes roof from bottom to top BUT
THERE IS A LADDER RUNG MISSING between his feet.
the 1st 1 thatshow builders carry bricks
1st picture – needs sheeting, drip edge, gripguard membrane, and rolls of underlayment before shingles, You start shingles from bottom to top.
2nd picture – key stone upside down, no river or pathway continuing on the other side of bridge
okay, everyone has lots of different ideas…
But personally, I think it could be many of the ideas that you have brought forth. It could be the size, the perspective, the construction, they are all very real possibilities. But more honestly, whatever the artist intended they didn’t get it across…
I understand illusions are supposed to be hard to see but i think in this case its just shoddy work in showing something that is intentional above all the actual artistic mistakes.
The differing problems in the pictures:
1 Shingles top down
2 River Continuation and Keystone
What They Have In Common
In neither picture does the Man cast a Shadow
Kay, he doesn’t have shingles for a head,
the box is obviously on his shoulder as he goes up the ladder. So that rules that out.
the second ones bridge has a peice of wood in it.
First: you shingle bottom to top not top to bottom.
Second: You need the stone in the middle the other way or the bridge falls apart.
Doesn’t anyone see the problem on the top puzzle?? The roofing is still on the ground. You put the shingles on the roof, not the rafters.
Well that took me a while…
in the first one the man is doing the shingles wrong, and for some reason has boards which he doesnt need. in the second one, the river flows nowhere.
as many have pointed out shingles are on wrong, he would have to shove the next row of tiles under the previous one
i don’t know about keystone but look at the height of the man and the height of the edge of the bridge, his legs would have to be chopped off at the knees for the proportion to work.
1st one bottem windows
if it’s two story home, the latter is a bit unrealistic, their is a a window on the front of the house that’s not like the others
the door nob in the first picture is on the wrong side! haha, small mistake but kinda funny
I read through some of the comments but not all so forgive me if this has been said
But the odd thing i see in the first on is the Guys name Smith is started with a 5 not a ‘S’
And yes i see the keystone in the bridge is wrong
uh, call me dumb but what the HELL is a keystone? What’s upside down on the bridge? Please explain to Little Miss Stupid here, (me.)
in the 1st 1 smith starts with a 5
the ladder has nothin to support it.and whith that much wait on it its impossible for it to still be standing up
my wild quess:
1) the roof tiles should placed from bottom to top or else the rainwater leaks under them.
2) the so-called “lock-stone” (or how it is in english?) at the top of the bridge arch is upside down – it will fall out and the arch collapses.
i think thats it. modern man usually doesnt know these things, so they may be pretty dificult puzzles.
The guy on the first picture is over twice the size of the door.
On the second one the bridge has an inverted keystone, it is impossible to resist.
Top picture – the tiles have to overlap from the top, so you start at the bottom of the roof and work up. The second picture – the keystone is upside-down and wouldn’t hold, therefore the bridge would collapse.
1) ROOF SINGLE ARE REMOVED UPPER ROW FIRST AND IF PLACED THE LOWEST ROW FIRST.
2)BOW STONE IN THE MIDDLE IS UP-SIDE DOWN. BRIDGE WILL COLLAPSE.
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1/ climbing that ladder under that angle, it certainly will break if you’re half way, to nowhere..
2/ keystone, no smoke from the pipe this man is smoking
Well, the guy’s legs would have to be really, really short for us to only see that portion of his legs….in the second picture
There are a couple of obvious problems with each of the pictures. IN the first one, the builder is installing the wrong color roofing. The owner asked for green to match his door, not red. He also forgot to put his e-mail address on his sign.
In the second one, the guy’s shoelace was untied, causing him to trip and fall to his knees. Also, the tobacco in his pipe is very poor quality.
in first picture – BUILDER? I think it doesn’t make sense…
second: There is no river on the left.
he is not a builder is he makes the roof!!
and the keystone and the river going nowhere in the second
I believe the issue to be perspective as both cards suffer from the same “problem”.
In the first image, the house, on both sides of the door should be the same width, yet a three columned window fits on the left side where a single column only fits on the right.
Similarly, to the left and right of the under arch of the bridge in the second image, the same number of bricks should fit across. Yet, on the left side of the arch we see a four brick width where, on the same row of bricks, the right hand side only allows three to be fit in the same amount of space.
I think this is what qualifies the images as optical illusions as the failure of proper perspective is not noticed at first.
One more minor note on the first image. A reputable builder would not install windows and doors before “drying in” with some roof system.
The fault is on the constructions,
1st: shingles from bottom to up because if don’t the water of the rain will get filtered trought the shingles.
2nd: the keystone. Short man no necesary to be an error, maybe he just is ehmm… short?
Everybody found the problem with the top picture. The shingles are being laid backwards, you have to start at the bottom. On the bottom picture, the fault is the keystone in the arch of the bridge. The stone at the apex of the arch is installed backwards and would just fall out and the bridge would collapse.
1st: the man is way too big… he’s bigger one floor of the house…
2nd: the water does not go anywhere. it stops under the bridge!
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1/ A lot of colors and perpectives are wrong, and i see no truck for materials.. haha
2/ Dr. Watson is missing next to Sherlock Holmes, I think he is under the Bridge
keystone ( expl. missy dumb .. pressing the bridge that one stone goes down, u see…)
Bye
In the 2nd picture the guy’s shadow.
Hi again, i hiope
1/ sure : the ladder goes to nowhere
2/ The Bridge has no floor, and the man walks true the water, or there is no need for a bridge, cause the water stops there
like to hear the right thing soon, but how ?
has no one noticed that the guy in the 1st pic is climbing a ladder with one hand?
in the first one the shingles are going from top to bottom.
in the second the river is flowing from no where.
i think this website is cool and i told my friends about it they think it rocks like me do you think it rocks i do.
The first one, i think its the windows. Its sorta “wrong”, the top two have 4 panes each, while the bottom two, the one on the right has 6, and the one on the left has 2
u cant see the mans left hand in either picture!
Other possibility: The two images are just normal and fine. Nobody mentionned this one. I mean, it could be a joke? No?
In the first picture, the man is colour-blind. He believed he was was wearing a brown shirt with blue trousers, but in fact ended up wearing a blue shirt with brown trousers. In fairness, one would have to know a bit more about his daily routine in order to deduce that.
In the second picture, it is actually 12 midnight, so there should in fact be no daylight at all. Also, the man is wearing a mask to disguise massive facial injuries sustained in the trenches of WWI. The strings ought to be visible.
I’m sure others who share my Sherlockian investigative skills could find more flaws.
Ok, here are the faults:
1: All the windows are uneven. A step on the ladder is missing.I found a face in the trees.
2: The water ends nowhere and starts nowhere.
In the first the shingles are installed from the top, should be from the bottom because they have to overlap to shed water.
in the second the key stone is upside down. that bridge cannot stand.
if you look at the bridge you will notice that the water turns under the bridge
Speaking as an engineer, both constructions are going to collapse, the first one because there are no main beams (architrave, epistyle) on the two upper windows. The second one because the key stone is upside down.
I agree with Al on the keystone being upsdie down and about the windows, however I think the roof needs to be shingled from the bottom up, or else it will leak.
The “builder” is wrong because you tile from the gutter upwards, not the other way around (think about how the roof tiles overlap). In the second one, the stream disappears beyond the bridge (perhaps it is just a pond).
the Key Brick on the bridge is upside down. that way it cannot support the bridge, instead it will fall down and the bridge will collapse
the man in the first pic has a tool box on his shoulder but both arms down….
pretty obscure, but still interesting…
Well for a start, W.H.Smith isn’t a builder…
In the bridge card the mands feet are too short. Thats the only thing i spotted in it.
In the first pic, along with the other comments, the little window on the left side appears to be defective. It also seems that the tiles do not cover the entire roof.
In the second pic, the earthen roadway continues on over the bridge.
The first one, there is a hidden image of a cat
Look at the bushes just to the right of the building
The second one, other than the keystone, I have no idea
what the heck is a key stone?
shouldn’t the whie part of the sky be on top to represent clouds and the blue on bottom to be the actual sky?
On the first picture, the man’s head is turned to his back and also he’s holding the box with no hands.
On the second picture, the water is flowing from the nowhere.
roofing tile starts at the bottom not the top, and the key stone is upside down
the sky and the clouds are inverted
The man on the ladder would be 1.5 stories tall. He is out of perspective.
The man on the bridge would have no room for legs. He is also out of perspective.
.in the first picture.,there’s a sign that seems to read W.H. Smith.,right.?actually.,it’s read as W.H. 5mith..
in the first one thre should be ground at the bottom because thats where the door is. instead the ladder and whatever is next to it seems to be continuing off the screen
Found them in both
1st man roofing putting shingles from top to bottom Wrong must go from bottom to top
2nd man walks over bridge. water comes under bridge but has field on opposite side not river
It’s definately perspective in both pictures rather than building irregularities, i.e. keystone, tiles etc as only people in the building game would know the problem, thereby eliminating the general public, plus they appear to be illusions rather than fault.. The roof line of the house is wrong in comparison with the 3-dimensional walls and gutter line etc… The guy is actually carrying a hod which is held at the midriff
look closely at water going under bridge, you can see it should be exiting further to the right therefore the far wall of the bridge shouldn’t be visible to the left, the perspective is wrong…
In reference to the “Orchestra /2 heads” illusion It seems that there is a face in the hair of the lady whose playing. The face is to the back of her head sharing her hair which led me to believe it’s another head.
the perspective is slightly off in both. In the first, the roof has an odd angle (check the underlaying wooden obards) and in the second, the bricks of the bridge are lined in a staight line, while perspective should put them at a slight angle.
You guys are all wrong!! In the second picture there isn’t any river in the other side of the bridge!!
In the first I’m not sure but the guy isn’t holding the box with any of his hands
no clue. but I think Chris said about perspective is quite concrete.
No one noticed it! The guy is on one side of the ladder but we see the ladder the other way.
What’s wrong with these pictures?
1.The roofing tiles are being installed in the wrong direction, they should be bottom to top. This was, I think, the intent of the artist. Also, the second story window upper supports are missing. I think this was unintentionsl on the part of the artist.
2.The bridge keystone is pointing in the wrong direction, it should be pointing down, which was probably the intent of the artist.
Also, it would appear the stream is missing from the back side view of the bridge, though I doubt this was the artist’s intent.
There are perspective problems in both of these drawings, but I think that this degree of missed perspective was allowable in this kind of commercial artwork.
Note: The man on ladder has right hand on ladder and left hand on box. As with any flat rendition of a 3-d image, some objects can “pop” out of the image and appear out of place. I can do that with the ladder, but I don’t think that effect was intended by the artist.
73’s!
I agreed with the last post (Chris S.), and I’ll add something really notorious that nobody else notice: The man in the leader is very tall!!! (or the door is too small). He could never go in throught that door. The door is nearer than the man from the point of view, so it’s more tiny then.
About the second man, he seems to be standing on his knees. The water stream simply hides behind the bridge, but it’s there.
Greetings from Argentina!
AHHH ENGINEER HAS BOX HEAD
okey here what I think.
1, the roof has different degrease on the left its steeper then on the right
2.the hole under the bridge where the steam appears out of nowhere the hole is way to high
on the house the 2 windows arent on top of each other
nd the river doesnt come through the otherside of the bridge.
oh and the man on the ladder has his arms crossed over the would be no u wuld be able to climb a ladder with your arms like that
On the First image the S in Smith is a 5
In the second image there’s a piece of tree that comes from nowhere in the top left
Well…the trees are blue in the first picture.
The sign is wrong(house),W.H Smith is a stationery shop.
Bjöggi…why do windows need to be on top of each other??
and the man on the ladder clearly has his left hand on the box.
also the house could be pointed inwards (into the card) which would make the roof look steeper than it actually is.
The only error i can see is that the dirt path continues over the bridge.
Well, I agree with just about everything that was said here except for the man’s arms being crossed– you can clearly see his left hand on the lower edge of the box; the house and the ladder is continuing off the pic– maybe the house is on the slope of a hill. But where is he gonna set that box down when he gets up there to finish shingling the roof from the wrong direction??
Now, where I’m from in the country-country, it is possible for a dirt road to contiue over a small bridge crossing. But the things that stood out to me in the second picture was the fact that the keystone is upside down, the man does appear to be walking on his knees, there is land where there should be water behind the bridge, and no one has said that there is no proper reflection of the bridge in the water and it looks as if the stream disappears into an underground canal under the bridge.
1st pic: he somehow started the shingles up at the top and has nothing to stand on but the beams
2nd pic: land were the water should have continued
the clouds are below the sky! :)
1) You shingle from bottom up
2) Different shadows, water indicates sun over the mountain, but bridge has shadows in the opposite directions
1)The roof is on the wrong side. Since the door is at the front, the roof should be at the side.
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Have never seen anyone shingle a house from the top of the roof to the bottom. Also, the keystone off the bridge is in upside-down. Not sure how safe that would be.
Rob… You’re right.
End of.
No need to start getting protractors out or set-squares – this is not the intention of these puzzles. Look for the simple things, that anyone with an ounce of common sense regardless of background can appreciate and contribute to the solution of.
BTW, I wouldn’t walk over that bridge…
In other words – look for the simple!
I’m in agreement with Alberto Franchi. There are no headers over the upper two windows, and as Steve says the shingling is all wrong. You do have to start from the bottom and work up. As for our builder, he’s carrying a hod of bricks up the ladder. As for the second card, the keystone is definitely upside down. Whether it’s a stream or a pond is unclear the way the drawing is done.
i seriously know what is wrong witht he second picture!!! the river or stream vanishes it is on the one side but not the other
First pic: all the building problems but also it looks like the guy has no head because the toolbox is on his shoulder
Second pic: the stream doesn’t continue on the other side and the keystone thing
in the first picture, the mans head is a tool box….in the second, the tree looks like a pig. am i the only one that sees it?
for the bridge the water goes under but there is no river on the other side
People need to read other comments before posting their drivel.
Lots of good, original insight, though.
From everything I’ve read, I deduce that there are several faults in both drawings and the solution of the “puzzle” is that they are both shitty drawings.
THE END
1. From a roofer point of view I can say the roofing tiles are supose to start at the bottom….sorry to the second pic. I did not observe anything, so I had to read what others found……I guess it is the keystone that is upside down.
The first one with the roofer, if you look at the windows on the first floor you will see that one has 3 panes while the other only has one. (and yes you tile from top down, I know because my dadys a builder.)
In the second with the man and bridge, The river does not contuie on to the other side.
The toolbox is in actual fact a Hod, and has a wooden shaft running verticle, which the builder will be holding with his left hand. Tiles should be from bottom to top and keystone is upside down.
The first one: The name W.H Smith is spelled with a 5 instead of a S.
The second one: It looks like the water is flowing under the bridge but there does not appear to be water on the other side, only land.
I haven’t read the other comments (255 at the time of writing) but the answers are: The roofer is putting the roof tiles on in the wrong order. For them to overlap and be watertight he would need to start at the bottom and work up! In the second case the bridge could not be built as the locking keystone is upside down!
Hope this answers it for everyone.
the 1st one the carpenter is not holding the toolbox and the 2nd one, the man could be a short guy or he is kneeling..
Think outside the box then its simple.
Or stop tryin to focus so much
sky is above the clouds
he is putting shingles on and underlayment is still on the ground
In the first one of the builder. The roof isn’t completed enough for putting down shingles.Plywood and tar paper go on before the shingles.
In the second, the far hill is purple insted of green.
That’s the best I can come up with.
in the second, how can the water be under the grass? it kinda looks weird.. well in the first one,it looks kinda weird because ..well theres kinda faces in the clouds and the roof is not strong enoghf to hold shingles i think and is W> SMITH BUILDER a name? cause it souds weird…
the first one. the door knob is on the wrong side. the window is missing a lat. unless its a different window cuz th efirst one broke and couldn’t be replaced lol. Plus whatever you guys already noticed.
In the second one that man is actually a woman and that tree has an extra weird part attached which is not possible considering that type of tree. also theres only one side of that fence. plus whatever else you guys noticed
well, the biggest fault i can see in both the pictures is that the clouds are under the sky. or maybe its just pollution
No Shadows… no smoke (pipe)
The first photo has a easy fault. The tiles are attached in wrong side. And now it is impossible to add more tiles with the help of the ladder placed on that side.
The second photo has a very tricky fault. The bridge has water on the one side.
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the tree in the first pic looks like a woman yelling at the builder.
HAHA THERE ARE MANY THINGS “WRONG” ABOUT THESE PICTURES NOT REALLY THEY ARE NOT WRONG ITS LIKE WHERES WALDO THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH IT THEY JUST HAVE LITTLE HIDDEN THINGS IN IT
the 1st one the door knob is on the incorrect side of the door, and the second one has a shadow continuity error.. if the shadow is going behind the wall of the bridge it can’t possibly going on the other side over the water.. ya digg?
In second picture the keystone is upside down. With the keystone in that position the arch will collapse.
When putting shingles on a roof you should start at the lower edge first, laying a horizontal row of shingles. Then work your way UP to the apex of the roof. This person is doing it backwards.
Shingles are going from top to bottom – usually the other way?
No stream otherside of bridge? And yes the keystone is upside-down.
on the secound one, there is no water on the other side of the bridge.
In the first pic the slates should be put on from the bottom of the roof moving up to the top as they have to overlap.
In the second pic, the top stone of the arch is upside down (it would fall out).
the 1st picture has 3 the roof the head of the builder and the sign W.H 5mith the 2nd pciture not sure i only see 2 the guy Clue of the guy:the head is super small and the body is super large and the fence. ^_^ have a nice day of illusions
oh yeah the 1st picture the guys foot ^_^ sry that i said the answers
first pic: W.H 5MITH instead of W.H SMITH
These are easy:
First One – His two helpers, Stan and Reggie, haven’t shown up to help him finish the roof today. They have sent word that bus that was supposed to bring them to the site from the youth hostel where they have been living, has broken down and it will take a few hours to get it repaired. But the truth is that they were up too late drinking at a pub and are nursing catastrophic hangovers. There was no way they were showing up at 7:00 am. Also, his wife has left a cup of warm tea for this guy inside on the kitchen counter. He likes two lumps of sugar in his tea. She only put in one. (To be fair, I know you guys probably haven’t actually been inside the house, so you probably wouldn’t have even figured out the tea one like I did.)
Second One – Chauncy is strolling into the village to make a withdraw from the bank, and hopes to be there when the doors open. What he doesn’t know is that Katherine, who is scheduled to open the bank today, is currently struggling with her first bout of debilitating morning sickness, and didn’t even know that she was pregnant. She tried to phone Rosie to ask if she can substitute for her today, but she forgot that it is Tuesday, and Rosie always spends Tuesdays uptown to sit with her ailing aunt.
If you look a little more closely, there are a few other small things that are wrong with these images. But I thought I would just point out the most obvious ones that jumped out at me.
You’re welcome.
-Jon
Oh yeah, and one more thing; In the 2nd image, if you’re wondering what Chauncy planned to do with the money he hoped to withdraw… relax. There is no way I could possibly even know that just from looking at the image.
Jeez, you guys!
-Jon
everything else AND the two upper windows in the first picture have no framing around it just like the ones below them. They are waay too close to the roof line. The bottom right side of the front door window is 2 pane window..not 4 like the rest, but still could just be 2.
In the first picture, the trees are blue.
2nd picture there’s no smoke coming from the pipe & the keystone is wrong
I thought it said “find the fruit” so I just assumed it was the guy in each picture. Tra la laaa.
chuck norris
is it the clouds?
The fault in the second image concerns the stones that form the arch of the bridge. As in any dome or iglu, the stones or ice blocks resist gravity by having their bottom side smaller than the upper side, so to compress against each other and so keep the structure standing. In this case the lower central stone has its lower face bigger, which would mean that this bridge cannot stand, it should have come crashing down as soon as it was finished.
Second one is where does the water under the bridge goes….??????..no where..
First one the man should lay roof tiles from lower end of the roof to upwards to be water tight.
Theres no fault in the pictures …………… in the second one the hill looks blue ’cause its far away .
W.H.Smith are not builders, they are a shop that sells books, magazines and crappy gifts!
Honestly, what a load of wrong answers :D
1) Roof tiles can only be laid from the bottom up, as the tiles overlap each other (obviously, or water would get in)
2) The Keystone on the bridge (the centre stone at the top of the arch) is upside down. This one would simply drop out under the pressure and weight of the bridge and stones pushing against it.
To me the most obvious error is the incorrect colour of the hills in the background. The person who spotted the incorrectly positioned keystone in the bridge arch deserves full marks.
Regarding the tile or shingle placement one could still lay them in this fashion if desired. A roofer only has to lift a tile slightly to place the other one underneath.
By looking at it this the roofing work is not at fault but is only being done in an unorthodox fashion. Unless the hills are covered in Lavender or Salvation Jane,which would make them appear purple,this appears to be the major error in the first picture.
in the first one, the windows are the wrong way around.
the second one, there is water under the bridge. on the other side, its land.
the first post [martin, 19 dec,2009], was right plus the uinderlayer was not installed yet on the 1st pix. the keystone was the ‘key’, the river may have curved away to the right unseen from the viewer.
no lintels or support above top windows and keystone is wrong way on bridge
in 2nd picture there aint no river after the bridge
ah…finally got the first one!!! :D
why guess? go outside and try it!!! :-O
try climbing a ladder with one hand on your head. go on! TRY IT!!!
hope i helped everyone, cuz i sh*t some heavy brix when i figured it out!!! :P
well first one i was confused but in second pic…keystone in the arch of the bridge is upside down…after reading comments…i guess andy got both the mistakes !
I just tried climbing a ladder with one hand on my head. Nothing’s wrong.
Can you tell me what’s wrong with the first pic? (and if the water’s the wrong answer, the second one too!)
Why would the builder need a toolbox on the roof if he’s laying shingles? Shouldn’t he be carrying more shingles up to the roof?
Also considering the size of the man and the door, I think the door is way too small.
first,
a shingle roof as to start from bottom up for it to work
secong,
the keystone on the bridge arch is upside down and will not work structurally
The trees are blue in the 1st one..
In the first photo, his tool box is resting right where his head should be and neither of his hands are holding it up.
In the second one, there’s no other half of the stream on the other side, it’s just more grass on the left.
I agree with Anna
I do not agree. I think you can see Hand holding the box (not colored correctly though).
The river is hidden by the bridge.
Rivers do have to end you know
1st picture – you tile a roof from the bottom up so to get the overlap.
2nd pioture- the keystone in the arch is upside down
Yes. Thats it.
I agree
I agree
I agree with you in the 2nd pic but in the 1st one the only mistake is that the unfinished roof does not let the sun ligth pass inside, we can see that trough the windows, they are all dark inside…
Very good! That’s it.
Right! But this whole thing is deceiving,cause i think it should be about what you see and not about what you know…!Anyway…well done! ;)
Your’e right. these are actually technical/building faults, NOT visual/ illusion tricks.
The second is simple. Look at the arch in the bridge. The ‘key’ stone, at the top of the arch, is in upside down. This would just fall out and the bridge would collapse. I think the first one has something to do with the laying of the tiles on the roof. I’m sure you have to start at the bottom to get them to overlap properly.
Whats a key stone?
A keystone is the middle stone in an arch as seen on the bridge. After the other stones are put in place this stone is jammed in so it holds
On the first one I think the door knob is on the wrong side.
tiling of roof should start at the gutter and work to the ridge,
i think it is to do with perspective
all the lines of the house (tops and bottoms of the windows etc) should run back toward the vanishing point, somewhere in the middle of the picture
the bridge and the and the tunnel underneath are heading in different directions
the first picture: The letter “s” is wrong cause it has a 5 not a s
The second picture: the “key” stone is upside down
the man is much too large to fit through the door.
u cant see the reflection of grass in the water as that of the bridge
I’m leaning towards the tiles being improperly lain in the first one.
The toolbox is actually a brick hod. Used to carry multiple bricks. One hand is on the ladder and the other is on the handle of the brick hod.
First one: He is shingling the roof top to bottom, when in reality you shingle a roof bottom to top.
Second one: A keystone in an arch is wider at the top than the bottom, so the keystone in the bridge arch is upside down.
The trees are blue. The shingles are going on wrong. The man is too big for the house. The ladder is missing a rung between his feet.
First pic: The roof is being constructed from top to bottom, this is wrong.
Second pic: The keystone of the arch is upside down
The right lower window on the house is different than the left.
Finally someone got it right for the first pic. After 2 weeks.
It’s got nothing to do with the windows either side of the door. In my house the two windows on the right of my front door are not the same. The two windows to the left of my front door are neither the same nor similar to those the other side and one of them is semi circular. In fact, of the four windows on the front of my house none of them are similar to each other and no two windows on the entire front of my house are at all similar. Does this make my house wrong? I only ask because it exists in the real world and I live in it.
In the second picture, the river is only on one side of the bridge.
The first one, I’m not so sure about, except to say that he’s bringing bricks up to the roof, (which is what the hod implies) and as far I know, people don’t roof with bricks.
You still use a brick hod if you’re using tiles of slate or concrete.
1st Pict none of the windows match size wise, roofs are tiled bottom to top. Door is a bit small for the man, though I know of some houses with a door 1.5m tall and the man could be 2m tall.
2nd Pict. The keystone is wrong. Everything else is just the artist not doing a photo realistic drawing.
The biggest problem with the second picture is the length of the guy’s legs. They’d either be abnormally short or embedded in the bridge.
There’s a lot of problems with the first picture, but most noticably the man is too big relative to the house.
Roof tiles are laid from the roof eaves up to the roof ridge.
The key stone is inverted in the bridge
Bottom picture has as has been correctly stated, the keystone upside down… not a good idea!
Secondly the man must be walking on his knees as he should be much taller.
Thirdly, unless the river has a sharp bend in it just out of sight, there should be water beyond!
Picture number one has just one things that stands out…… since when as WH Smith been a builder!!!
1. see window…
2. see river…
finally some1 got it! it’s th bottom window and the keyston!
The man in the first picture must be over 8 foot tall, if you compair him to the house. The perspecives way off too.
The second one apart from the back of the bridge to higher than the front nothing ???
in the second one hand of man is on the stick while other in his pocket…what about the stick in his mouth
in the bridge picture: where is the fence coming from and mostly, going to?
In the first one, maybe the builder is taking off the tiles so he can replace them with new ones?
In addition to the aforementioned flaws in these 2 pictures, I must add:
Pic #1
1. The trees have no barks, with the leaves growing straight from the grass.
2. The clouds are almost the same shape/outline as the blue trees. And the clouds look like sunset when the sky is blue.
3. The window on lower left corner looks like it’s vandalized instead of unfinished.
4. The door frame is wrong.
5. The chimney is too small for such a size of house.
6. The workman is not dressed properly for building houses and he is wearing white socks without shoes or work boots.
7. Those long logs don’t look like gutters, so where are they supposed to go?
8. What the heck is that orange square board doing there?
9. The background is a hill, but the house is on flat land?
10. There is no flat surface for him to stand on the roof, he would slide right off.
Pic #2
1. The mountain is purple.
2. Again, the clouds (and the purple mountain) looks like sunset when the sky is blue.
2. There’s a big chunk of “tree” that looks detached from the actual tree on the left, so it looks like it’s grown out of the blue sky.
3. There’s a variation in the green shade of the tree that shows the slant of the tree doesn’t match the direction of sunlight.
4. There is no reflection of the bridge or green plantation in the water.
5. The directional flow and shading of the water is wrong.
6. The shading of sunlight on the bridge doesn’t match the tree on the left.
You are really good
#1 You shingle a roof from the bottom up. There is nothing wrong about the sign.
#2 Keystone in the arch is upside down. In this position, the bridge would collapse.
in the 1st picture there are no sheets of plywood. also you shingle from bottom to the top, the second picture has a dirt road going across the bridge, should be wood or cobble stone.
Some of the points you mentioned actually have nothing wrong about them. E.g purple Mountain. Mountains can have a purple tinge under different lighting
A few things.
First pic: The roof is being constructed from top to bottom, the windows are different,the toolbox that the man is holding is replacing his head and the trees are blue.
Second pic: The keystone of the arch is upside down, this would make it collapse, the rivers left side is grass and the picket fence on the right side stops for some reason.
Hope this helped!
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That’s not a toolbox, that is what workers used to use to carry shingles/bricks up and down ladders. Notice the stick at the bottom that’s attached to the “toolbox”?
No truly, the only thing wrong with #1 is you shingle a roof from the bottom up. Everything else is correct.
The only thing wrong with #2 is the keystone in the bridge. The river could simply bend around to where you don’t see it past the bridge from your vantage point. The colors are not important. The fence stops as it reaches the bridge.
no one has said anything about the sign in the first picture having a 5 instead of an S in smith
I agree, though it seems a minor part of the image…
there seems to be a massive gap where tops of trees are missing in the 1st picture
in the 2nd the bridge doesnt seem to be arched…
theres a fence blocking the way he was coming from on the bridge- how would he pass over that?
The man on the 2nd does not have shadow/reflect on the water.
In the first picture its really simple, he is just about to put is left foot down on the ladder but the rung is missing.In the second the water goes through at a different angle to the bridge, and the keystone is the wrong way round.
has anyone noticed that in the first one the sign says “W.H.5mith” Instead of “W.H.Smith” they replaced the S with a 5…
1. Ladder is missing s rung.
1. clouds are the wrong side up/or down…
1. man is lifting bricks to tile a roof.
1. he clearly has no safety gear on!!
2. river flows out the wrong side of the bridge.
Guys … Guys … GUYS! … There is no river on the other side of the bridge and W.H.Smiths is a store … not a building contractors
1st picture: There is no gutter nor rain down pipe installed on the house. Tiling a roof must always start from the gutter to the ridge. First row of roof tiles should overlap gutter, which needs to be fixed first.
1st. The tallest tree creates black shadow on its left side, so the worker and ladder should do shadows on the house front wall
2nd.There are tire marks on the road. The bridge can not take weight of any vehicle with key stone installed up side down.
in the 1st pic, don’t you think the shadow of the man & the ladder is not seen?.. :P
I can’t, I repeat, I CAN NOT believe the amount of crap that has been posted in these comments.
In the first one he is building the roof backwards as well as blue trees
the top of the roof is angled but the gutter isn’t
The ceiling tiles on the roof diminish while nothing else is.
The man on the bridge, his legs are not proportioned to his body and the ground.
The trees in the first one are the same colour as the sky, and i think their the same shape as the clouds…i think :L
The roofer is doing it wrong. You NEVER start from the apex of the roof. Always start from the bottom and work your way up towards the apex.
Who ever came up with drawing this sucked at making it make sence,cuz i read some of the coments and those arent illusions to me they are mistakes
the second one that 6 ft man bust be on his knees
In the first one it looks like you can see the ladder through his leg. I noticed that one right away.
the rungs on which he stands are differently spaced , and the keystone in the bridge is upside down……regards to all
in the first pic, his head is missing, the left window is broken, he has nowhere to stand on the roof
and i dont know if its just me but the trees look like animals (a bunny all the way to the right and a cow right next to the guy on the ladder
Did anybody notice the guy is *tip-toeing* up that ladder?
On the 2nd picture, I see 2 things.
1) The length of his arm (holding the cane) appears too long compared to the arm on in his pocket.
2) The shadows do not appear to be possible. If the shadow from the bridge is in front of the man where he is about to walk, then the sun must be from our perspective (though up and to the right). If so, then the water under the bridge and the shadow of the grass would not be in the water. It is as if the sun is up and back (above the clouds in the background).
Yes, the first pic has several inconsistencies, but one that jumped out at me that I haven’t seen anyone else mention is that the upper windows have no headers. I’m not a builder, but I thought all doors are windows need to be built with a header over the top…
only thing I could find in first photo was starting shingles at top not bottom as is normal practice second photo was keystone brick in bridge was upside down
The clouds begin at the ground on both pics.
yea the clouds are at the bottom everything else is just faults the artist didnt really think about you guys talk like he was a construction expert or something the key tile like if the picture bridge will fall if its backwards
When looking at the bottom half of the ladder, it appears as though the man is climbing its underside, the perspective is corrected when looking at the top half.
The first picture – the roof tiles are applied from the bottom up, not the top down. In the bottom picture, the stones in the bridge arch would fall out in that position. They need to be turned around.
Wende Wylie is close…. the keystone in the bridge in inverted… The bridge would collapse.
There is no water on the other side of the brigde! How has no one noticed that?
1 Pic: The roof tiles are applied from the bottom up, not the top down.
2 Pic: their is no water on the other side of the brigde.
the clouds are below the sky
The bricks on the bridge are the same bricks that are on the house. So maybe the bridge is the house?? Lol or maybe the builder is an early settling Mexican and this is a picture saying someone was telling the future.
I think that it is a matter of perspective.
Picture 1: The red toiles show perspective, they grow smaller from left to right, but not he windows and the door.
Picture 2: The same problem: The horizontal bricks should grow smaller from left to right, as the left end of the bridge is nearer to the observer than the right end.
carlos- agreed
the water on the second one goes no where thats easy come on!!!!!!! on the 1st one he has no head!!!!!!!!!!!!
BORING HOW CRAP CAN THESE GET!!!!!!!!! TROLL LOLOLOLOLOL
1st pic:the clouds and the bushes has the same pattern
2nd pic:where is the fence coming from and mostly, going to?
all of you are totally wrong..
the size (height) of the men in each pic is not corect.
Pic 1.- The man is to big according to door’s size.
Pic 2.- According to the perspective of the bridge…The man must have a very short legs.
I THINK HE USED THE BRIDGE BRICKS TO BUILD HIS HOUSE>>>>THE BRICKS ON BRIDGE IS SAME AS ON THE HOUSE>>>THE TWO PICS ARE LAST THEN FIRST ACTIONS
The river doesn’t continue beyond the bridge and there is a rung missing in the ladder between his feet.
is the man on the ladder going up, or down? is he finishing the roof, or taking the tiles off?
In the first picture, sure the builder is building from the wrong side, but that is probably just an over site. The real fault is that the doorknob is on the wrong side. Most people are right handed, so the handle should be on the right. Also, the man seems to be way too big for the door, which would be a problem.
In the second, the height of the side of the bridge makes it seem like the man has really small legs for his body.
The sign is all wrong in pic:1.Look at the wood angle.
W.H.SMITH BUILDER Sign is the illusion it take me 5min to see that.The 2:pic I can find the fault.
That man legs is very short in pic:2.
wtf??? seriously nobady saw the the first man in carring bricks in a triangular pot?
in the second image the error is to be found in the arc structure…the upper rock is actuale upside down
has no one noticed that the keystone in the bridge is upside-down, if it was the way it was the other way round the bridge would be structurally unsound
I’ve read all the comments and had a good giggle at some of the spurious ones, and for picture one I’m really surprised no one seems to have mentioned the REALLY OBVIOUS thing that jumped out at me.
He may be constructing the roof the hard way, it CAN be done from the top down, but it’s certainly a LOT easier to go from the bottom up, I’m not sure I’d call that a “fault”!
But, considering he’s tiling the roof, WHY IS HE CARRYING A HOD FULL OF BRICKS?
I see faces and animals in the tree, maybe that is what it means?
I agree that the roof should be built from the bottom up in the first picture. Where is the river comming from in the second picture?
NUMBER 2: theres only water on one side of the bridge
the ‘bridge’ has a different beginning than end
you guys are missing the obvious and trying to make up things that aren’t really supposed to be wrong
guys
the first pic hes not building the roof, hes taking it down
the builder sign is wrong
I think I have the right answer
we must think technical
in the first frame: the laying of tiles on a roof is always started from the bottom.
in the second image must focus on the stones forming the bridge the keystone is upside down
In the first one the bushes are of animals and people.
both have something wrong about construction. That’s an advantage for builders, architects, engineers, etc