Remove the Glass from The Tray

Move the Glass from the Tray
Move the Glass from the Tray

Author of this optical illusion is G. Sarcone from Archimedes Lab. Can you find a way to completely remove one of the glasses from this blue tray, while minimizing your effort? Before I show you the solution (after the jump), I’d like to share some site news with you. Am not sure what is happening, but there are some strange circulations present this week. First thing I noticed is that our RSS subscriber number started to go up rather insanely. You can see this in my sidebar.

On Tuesday it showed 51,000, on Wednesday it averaged 66,000, and today we already have more than 80,000 subscribers! Is this awesome or what! Just hope this ain’t no glitch happening on Feedburner’s side. Would ruin my excitement ;) Apart from this good news, some bad things started happening as well. Last few days spammers really put their eye on our community. There were more than 200 spam comments posted per day. It became really painful dealing with them. In my opinion they started flowing via some automated script. Since our site doesn’t use CAPTCHA letters for protection, they were easily entered. This may as well serve as an explanation why your comments need to pass moderation before they are approved.

Simply rotate The Image!
Simply rotate The Image!

As I’m not the biggest fond of captcha, I decided to install Akismet spam protection plugin, and all should be in balance once again. If my calculations turn correctly, and Akismet truly does its job, who knows – maybe I’ll even disable comment moderation, and your comments may start to appear momentarily (very soon). I’ll keep you informed, in the mean time lets try and solve today’s puzzle.

You can open the pictures in full size by clicking on them. Same goes for yesterday’s Empire game, forgot to mention it. It’s great to receive so many legit comments in just one post (300 valid comments at this moment), but what you should know is that beneath first 50 comments there is “more comments” link which will bring you to the rest of the entires. This is probably why I see all the same movies repetedly posted.  Hope this gets sorted when you get used to “more comments” feature, and when I ditch the comment moderation rule. Btw. I’m testing something with facebook comments, to allow those appear immediately. Logging off…

38 Replies to “Remove the Glass from The Tray”

  1. it was really interesting…but you should have done an expandable box for the solution I would have liked to actually tried to figure it out…

  2. You should ask new readers to let you know how they found you – then you’ll know a) that it’s real, and b) who to thank. :-)

  3. I can’t see why 200 spam comments a day should be a problem. For a blog with 80.000 readers its’s an extremely low amount of spam.

    On my blog I only have 70 readers while getting 100 spam comments a day. Using Akismet or a similar anti spam plugin it’s very easy to deal with it. Just don’t try to read through all comments flagged as spam anymore!

    I don’t think captchas or similar ways to annoy the commenting reader are necessary on any blog, because there are many so much better ways to fight spam!

  4. The answer was straight in our face (NOT after a jump) so had no chance at all to try to find out by myself

  5. I really like this one :)
    But I agree with Detective Kitty, would have liked a chance to figure it out for myself.

  6. I thought at first that it was about the glasses, or at least one of the glasses, looking as if they were on the OTHER side of the tray – kinda like we were looking up, from underneath a translucent tray! :P… but then it was totally not that haha… btw please use an expandable “Show Solution” box in future like you have done in the past, as the image just being there rotated and it saying Simply rotate the image!” kind of spoiled it – even though i wanted to spoiled, shhh, ;)

  7. Cool picture, but why oh why is there so many cookies on this site… I just hate them. So maybe my last time in here

  8. just a quick warning vurdlak the google thing aint working at the mo says invalid data in fair sized writing

  9. This is amazing Guys i love it ;) Im so happy that ot gives this site i even look my illusion of the Day

  10. @crazyyboyy:

    Well the Google “thing” works for me, I think it might just be something with your computer, nor the server.

  11. oooh! I did not get it until i read some of the comments :P !! But that was great!

    I hope you can sort out your spam problem!

    Sorry, I’m no good with the “technical” stuff.. so yeah, you carry on Vurdlak, do whatever you think works for this site :)

  12. nice..can someone answer me? well,you know the glass was on the tray?how does it “come out” by just rotating the image?even if you rotate,the glass should stay on the tray…

  13. Oooohhh!!!!!!!!!!! I get it!!! Thanks to I get it I get it!!! After reading your comment I understood it. :] Very creative picture.

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