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Introducing the Game You Can't Win
This page is the "set up" for the Home Page
We can all be fooled. Whether it's simply an optical illusion, confusing to the eyes or a brain buster. The slideshow gallery above is just a few examples of some fun visual foolers. Scroll through them, then go to the Home Page and see why these have been assembled.
Present the Illusions to a Friend
If you want to show a friend the illusions, rotate your phone to landscape/horizontal, scroll to the "Think You Can't Be Fooled" slide above, zoom appropriately, and go! Explanations for each image are below. After looking at each illusion, share the page via text with your friend so they can read the home page.
Explanations
Here's what's going on with each of the opticals in the slideshow above.
- Think You Can't Be Fooled. The first two illustrate how our brain tends to correct to what it knows should be the truth. This is the brain literally fooling itself into thinking things are as they should be when, in fact, they are not.
- Mistake after mistake. Continuing the theme of the first one, each line continues to have mistakes that you don't see. You look back and forth and keep on fooling yourself.
- The "Wavy" lines - the shifted squares force your brain to think that things aren't straight.
- Elephant Legs. Count the feet. Then count the legs. Your brain fills in the proper associations even when they're not there.
- The Thatcher Effect. Named so because Margaret Thatcher was the first picture to be used for this, when the eyes and mouth are as they should be, your brain sees them as normal. When you rotate the image you see the truth in the context of the entire image.
- Three rods. Or are there only two? Your brain makes assumptions that aren't there due to the proximity of the rods.
- The Coffee Cups Logic Puzzle. The instructions are with the image. The answer is: one sugar cube in the first cup, one sugar cube in the second cup, and 34 sugar cubes in the third cup which you must admit is an ODD amount of sugar for a cup of coffee. (Don't hate me). This puzzle is difficult because it feels like a math puzzle when it's a word puzzle. (email me for another, more legit solution)
- The Shell Game. If you've never seen the three shell game, you're missing out. This classic street con has fooled many and made countless profits for unscrupulous con men for centuries. It's still played today in many places around the world.