I have just received this optical illusion from my former classmate – it’s a promotional poster for some sort of product called Horlicks. I’m not gonna tell you what the the illusion here really is, as I have confidence you’ll manage to spot on your own. I’m sure you will find it sooner or later. Yet, there is a chance you won’t like it as much as I did (which is mostly because it managed to fool me when I first saw it). The only hint I can give you is this: if you think you’re seeing a hand holding a magnifying glass, think again! BTW, I was surprised how no one answered my earlier question :( !?
Coffee cup.
It’s a mug of coffee. ‘See your little ones grow’ entails children, and parents usually drink coffee. Plus it looks like a magnifying glass.
Its a coffe cup! the bubbles around the edges gave it away!
It is a coffee mug she is holding
I see a woman’s hand holding a coffee cup…
Magnifying glass? I only see a coffee mug…
A mug with coffee, or tea, or a latte, or something similar.
Yup, I got tricked/fooled. :)
Its either a cup of tea:D
or coffee
i had to enlarge it to get a closer look, but i got it…. the inner edge of the “magnifying glass” gave it away for me. :)
nice one.
I got fooled took me about 20 seconds to realise it was a cup of coffee
I got it. But I had to enlarge image to pick it up.
At first glance it’s a hand holding a magnifying glass, but it’s actually a hand holding a coffee cup that’s colored nearly identically to the counter it’s over.
Ha. I get it.
it’s a cup of coffee!!!
COFFEE!
oh man horlick is the shiz – btw its a mug that looks like a magnifying glass :D
owh..this is awesome..
I`ve been fooled 2 times!
I would say that this is a cup of either hot chocolate or malted milk with the hand holding the handle of the cup. The thumb is in line with the handle making it appear like a handle. The same color background makes it appear as if you are looking through a glass, except for the small bubbles around the rim. Nice Photo effect.
2 spoons of sugar plz xD
Need help, can’t see it, what to do?
Got it in 2 secs flat.
I DONT GET IT!!!
a cup of coffee?!!
well, googled Horlicks and i got it now.
It’s a cup of coffee I knew it right away
I noticed the foam but for a long time a thought it was just a magnifying glass above a pint :P
mmmmm……frothy…
I didn’t get fooled but it is quite a great way to advertise!
oh, and also I am sorry for not answering your question but I don’t live in the US so thus, I cannot answer your question.
its so cool but FYI horlicks tastes teribble
oh i get if you drink it you will grow so thats what they want to show
Horlicks is a drink popular in Europe and Asia. It’s a powder you mix with hot water (or hot milk) and end up with a kind of sweet milky thing- it’s quite good, but I can’t describe the flavor exactly- sort of like a malty sweet deliciousness :)
I definitely liked this one however much you did.
It was the way the hand was holding the handle that did it for me.
Nice took me a wile tho
As a Horlicks user it is pretty obvious.
I see it! It’s not a magnifying glass! It’s a cup o’ joe!
A hand holding a cup of Horlicks :)
(Horlicks is a malted milk drink popular in the UK)
I love it <3
That is awesome. In answer to your previous question, I have no idea about how the agency’s work but TrueCrypt is open source and works fairly well.
Wow, i actually found that super easy, still good tho
Too tired to find, i’m gonna take a coffee.
horlicks is a malt drink, similar to hot chocolate, mostly drank in the evening!
oh I see it now. wow that’s really clever.
the name Holicks gave it away for me….mmmmmm
That was amazing, I laughed at my stupidity when I found it! xD
Haha the way the hand holds it gave it away for me… literally just stared at it for about 10 minutes… nice
Thanks. Your hint helped me look further, and the cafe au lait background clinched it.
I like it. Hey, I wish you could find some of the old Benson & Hedges cigarette adverts from the mid seventies. I remember one which had a huge bare packet in the corner of a blacksmith’s, covered with a cloth, and all the lettering being prepared in metal, some hanging over the anvil, some in the furnace, glowing red. They were art. Pity it was cigarettes they advertised.
I too had to enlarge then i got it very good
…to go?
Good illusion, but what was wrong with my answer yesterday?
Wow that took me a long time, even with enlarging it! I saw the word under the tags but still couldn’t see it. Love your site:)
Nice one, fooled me, but got it eventually.
For our cousins across the pond, Horlicks is a UK hot malted milk bedtime drink favoured by many senior citizens.
Thanks for the great illusions, makes my day every time I see them.
smells nice
Horlicks is an old malted milk product.
Horlicks isn’t “old” – you can still buy it in supermarkets in the UK
very cool…didnt see it until I enlarged
HInt: Horlicks is a hot drink.
Horlicks is a nice drink…
And yup. The bubbles really give away the illusion when you look at it closely
It’s actually a cup of hot cocoa/hot coffee
WOW, this really got me at first, thought it was a spy glass then a wand to blow bubbles then finally, a cup of hot Horlicks! I should have known as I’ve seen Horlicks in stores before now. But this stumped good at first. Good one
it fooled me, at first i thought it was a magnifying glass, then a bubble maker, and then i finally saw what it is.
I got it in… 5 seconds :) I don’t lie, seriously.
HINT: The title can help you :)
Hmmmmm, chocolate ! Or ist it coffee ;(
Horlicks is a drink, my mother used to drink it all the time, so that is what gave it away for me.
William Horlick (the namesake of Horlick High School in Racine, WI – go Rebels!) invented malted milk. With that information this illusion shouldn’t be too tough to figure out.
Horlicks is a milky hot chocolate powder, notoriously known for it’s drowzy effects and sweet sweet taste :)
Horlicks is a drink made from malt.
In answer to your earlier qusetion about encription: ANY computer cypher is breakable under brute force. It’s just a matter of time. The high “bit code” used the longer the crack takes. With current technology, a 256-bit code could take a brute force program several hundred (or even thousands) of years to crack.
So again, everything is crackable. But in 2ooo years, will you really care if they find it?
that’s a lot of cream lol
Horlicks is an english instant product apparently had just before sleeping(I’m pretty sure, I am Australian and have never tried it). I hope that is not too much of a giveaway.
I LIKE MINE BLACK
I sure the author use photoshop for the background, the colors look samilar
same color as my coffee with half and half, i saw it immediately.
I got it pretty quickly.
wow that is really awesome……
it really is too good.
Good one and I got it ! Horlicks being spoken about here.. quite unexpected ! Its a Health Food Drink Brand here in India.. a malt based hot milk drink.
As I am an avid coffee drinker….I wasn’t fooled =)
Got it! im having one of those as we speak!
handle gave it away for me – figured the little things in the “magnifying glass were bacteria or something – not enlarged”
as an illusion – I like it; probably wouldnt have been so readily fooled if it wasnt for the title… was with that?
and as far as a promotional poster… what are they saying? its bland? seriously… what are they trying to get across?
awesome illusion – horrible promotion
what is it
How is this not obviously a cup of coffee?? O.o (Magnifying glasses don’t foam)
What is it?? I cant tell
Got it right away but I stare at that all day workin in a bar.
Ahh Horlicks, yum, if you’ve never tried it now’s the time.
I love Horlick’s!
I first thought it was a magnifying glass! It’s really coffee <3
Why look! It’s a cup of coffee, perhaps with cream!
Good one. Enlarge to really see the illusion. Thought I had a dirty screen @ first. lol
I had to enlarge the pic but i got it cool illusion!
took me a while to visualize this one.
must be a lack of caffeine.
Ok, so I didn’t see it the first time and yup! it’s easy to not see it right off…..Thanks fella’s ya’ got me again!!
Oh yeah and by the way, my morning cup is usually in a black mug too!
Mug of coffee
I can’t wake up in the morning without my first magnifying glass of illusion.
Good one! Thanks! :-)
I don’t get it. Is it a cup of coffee? Why are people talking about magnifying glasses? Is the illusion in her hand? :'( I don’t see it!
HAHAHAHA I GET IT HAHAHAHA
Is it a hand holding a cup of yellow liquid? Please tell me what it is because I don’t get it, and if it IS a hand holding a cup of yellow liquid, why is the title “See Your Little Ones Grow”?
COFFEE!!!!
That’s clever, first thought that it might be different thing ‘holding’ the maginifying glass, but then realised
Mhmm. The minute I saw “horlick”, I got it. it’s a milky drink powder that’s used to strengthen children’s bones and help them grow healthy. Excellent illusion.
is it suposse to be a coffe cup
i love this illusion!
horlicks in btw the glass :)
The lil bubbles around the inside of the cup gives it away
Count me in if it has Hazelnut Creamer.
Well, I know what Horlicks is so I get the picture.
Hey, That was great fun!
Wiggerlocky Naybaby, don’t go slow,
Go like Elvis, Go Man Go!
First i saw the photo and thought that i would see a magnifie glass and then i read the text, after 10sec i saw the ….. XD you fooled me >.<
The hand appears as if he or she is holding a magnifying glass but IF you look carefully, there are bubbles frothing around the rim, which means that the magnifying glass is actually a cup of Horlicks. You are fooled by this because the background is the same as the Horlicks drink.
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Along with @doax 2 spoons, I’ll have some cream.
Got it and love it!
i cant find a contact field so ill take this one
maybee old too you but new to me:
http://www.dezeediedenkt.nl
check it out its full of the best intentions ;)
Now that is really cool! I enjoyed it, it fooled me at first sight. Neat. And I love Horlicks.
Got it! Luv Horlicks.
oh i get it! haha funny
Easy when you know what Horlicks is.
got it because of inner edge ….. not a magnifying glass
I prefer mine black so it took me a minute
Unfortunately, the “Horlicks” in your post gave it away for me; no illusion remained when I looked at the picture.
It’s delicious, by the way.
its really easy picked it up on the first look
I saw that first and the magnifying glass second. hmm
i get it now…that’s really cool!!
oooh… its coffee i get it now (:
jk. i just looked “horlicks” up. its a malt drink thingy :/
It took me a while but I got it eventually!
um its kind of obvious…i saw it as soon as i looked at it
horlicks is a malt drink that can help you sleep at night its really nice you make it with hot milk though some people make it with water, its a bit like ovaltine………and i knew straight away it was a cup yumm think ill go make a horlicks xxx
Horelicks was a well-known maker of malted milk tablets, which were the brown color you showed.
I ate them like candy back in the late 1950s-early 1960s. I got nostalgic (and hungry) looking at the ad you posted!
i got this first time as the inside of the mug had bubbles :)
It looks as if the person is holding a magnifying-glass BUT if you look carefully, there are bubbles frothing around the rim, which indicates that the person is actually holding onto a cup of Horlicks, not a magnifying-glass. The reason why you are fooled is because the drink’s colour is the same as the background and the bubbles are quite small.
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Anybody?
first time I cant work one out
I drink coffee in a black cup with lots of milk, so this one was easy for me.
I saw it right away. It is something that I consume every day,as do most people.
Tagging this post ‘cup’ kinda gives it away……
Horlicks is delicious!!
i got it straight away lol!!
Thats how I like mine.
Its a cup of coffee with milk in it…top side view
Horlicks is NOT the same as coffee! D’uh. One is a hot milky malt drink that purports to help you chillax to SLEEP-and is the same colour however you make it. The other is, as ev1 knows, a drink that can be had hot or cold, can be kinda diff shades depending how you prepare it, u can get lotsa diff varieties of coffee as opposed to Horlicks where there’s um 2 kinds-reg and chocolate and the most marked diff’rence is of course that coffee is reckoned to keep one AWAKE! Don’t start me on decaf heheh! *Sorry for the textual harassment folks, I know it’s not important n it don’t amount to a hill of (coffee) beans Lol. Now, bk to the matter in hand-optical illusions… x
i thout it was a magnifier glass and yup i was fooled
I would have guessed the colour inside the cup would be exactly the same as the colour outside it. Then I got the real point of the illusion :).
sweet illusion !
please post the comment i left the other day. or let me know why it didn’t pass muster. thanks.
i found it. thanks.
thats easy. its just a cup of coffee
that is awesome
its a mug with horlicks mixed in milk in it.
Verry impressive. Due to my mentalcoach ‘being’, I’d like to buy a poster from this. Can anyone tell/help me?
Is it sugar free ?! :P
ew horlicks is disgusting
Its a cup of coffee
coffee mug
WHAT IS IT!!!!!!! I WANT TO KNOW!!!!!!!!! PLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT IS IT!!! I KEEP ON LOOKING! NOTHING!!!!!!!! Except a piece of blank paper that is the same colour as the wall… Nothing much on the paper…. just blank….
NOW WHAT IS IT!!!!!!!! >:( I know to look “under” the screen but…. I HAVE A COMPUTER…. NOT A LAPTOP! So I can’t see under it. I only saw a bit though… In the magnifying glass.
ha! a cup oh this ‘horlicks’
Took me a while to figure this one out!
holding a mug….
latte!!
Cool! its a coffee. At first I thought its a magnifying glass… You fooled my friend here. hahaha!
Its actually horlicks..
cool coffee mug
Don’t start me on decaf heheh! *Sorry for the textual harassment folks, I know it’s not important n it don’t amount to a hill of (coffee) beans Lol. Now, bk to the matter in hand-optical illusions… x
SO COOL!
It is supposed to be a cup of horlicks but the tile says watch your little ones grow because it means to give the message that if your child drinks horlicks he will become smart enough to become a detective (Thus the maginfying glass).
Mind blown by Vsauce once again!
i like mine black
I still dont get See your little ones grow
its a cup of coffee
I’m guessing two possibilties here. First a cup of egg nog maybe enhanced with vitamin or energy type(grow)sprinkled pixie dust toppings.secondly a mini pancake or(sugar looking)cookie skillet?
When I grow up maybe I’ll learn to spell and punctuate. First, a cup of egg nog maybe enhanced with vitamins(similar to ovaltine)or energy type pixie dust toppings to help you grow. Or secondly, a mini-pancake or (sugar looking) cookie skillet?
COOL!
It is a nutritional drink, that children in India drink… something like, Proteinex, or Ovaltine, or Maltova… It’s supposed to be good for kids, and usually dissolved in hot milk.
Read the posts, and everyone keeps “coffee” or “ovaltine”or “latte,” when the description says “Horlicks” . FYI, Horlicks is a drink that helps you sleep. You dissolve it in milk, then heat it in the microwave, then drink the whole thing before you go to sleep. Being a severe insomniac, it only half-helps me.
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I love your reply….lol
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I thought it was a tiny pan…….. then I thought it was coffee
this took 1 min
no jk
i see the foam duh
its a coffee cup
u fooled me
Its a magnifying glass?i thought it was
A cofee cup
It took me a few minutes. But it WoW me!
Is it suppose to be the moon be wide if it is that would be lame
I do not get this pic at all, I dont really read the article.HeHe
And I Drink Horlicks for bed. I am put off for the rest of my days.
BLECH! It’s a mug full of coffee! I might only be 11, but I like Pakistani Chai and Tim Horton’s Iced Cappucino Supreme better. Mmmm…
It’s a cup of coffee! The bubbles around the edge gave it away!
a cup of horlicks… love the stuff…. use to advertised as a ‘night cap’
use to be advertised as a ‘night cap’; a nice hot cup of horlicks