August 17, 2011December 6, 2012Color Adapting

VIDEO Real-life Checkers Illusion

Checkers optical illusion, one of the very first illusions to appear on this site, an old time goodie and my personal favorite is blessed with…

July 25, 2011Outdoor Illusions

Triangular Shadow of a Volcano

Perhaps you already encountered this photo before, as it became viral across the interwebs in the past few weeks. Can you explain why does the…

June 16, 2011November 2, 2012Spot The Object

Garage Door Face Illusion

I realize I might have given insufficient explanation in our previous article, as I thought it was more than obvious the illusion was animated .gif…

April 3, 2011September 30, 2015Impossible Objects

Paradoxical Paint Job Illusion

I’m planning to visit Paris (France) in few days, so before we continue with illusion stuff I’d definitely like to hear if there are some…

February 3, 2011Multiple Meanings

Ghost Hand Optical Illusion

Here’s an awesome one sent in by Joao Gratuliano. It took me really long time before I understood what happened here, supposedly there was no…

December 28, 2010December 26, 2010Art Installation

Shadow Letters Illusion

Being so illusion-concentrated, I sometimes tend to forget about real-life manners, thus “successfully” overlooked the fact there were holidays I should have mentioned and congratulated…

November 25, 2010November 28, 2010Multiple Meanings

An Unlikely Shadow

Update 3: I have removed the author’s name and link due to his request. Update 2: Unfortunately, original author asked us if we can remove…

September 12, 2010Multiple Meanings

Are They Kissing?

Loïs Levy spotted this accidental illusion, shot somewhere on streets of India (I presume). At first there is nothing extraordinary about this photograph – just…

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