This is quite a tough brain teaser. As quickly as you can, say the
COLOR of each word above. Don't just read the colors, say the actual
color that the word is typed in. It demonstrates a conflict between
your left brain - words and your right brain - colors and creativity.
After practicing a few times it gets easier! Was it to easy? READ THE DIRECTIONS AGAIN. People often make the mistake of reading the words. That's easy. Don't read the words, just say what color the word is printed in. Ahh yes, much more difficult, and it should be such a simple task for our minds to calculate!
Here is another example that we made, due to the popularity of the one above: Now that you've practiced on the simple example above, try this. It's interesting how your brain will interpret the different colors.
I've found that changing some of the color names to longer names such as Aquamarine and Turquioise will mess with your brain a little more, because it's a little harder to interpret these colors because we don't hear them all the time. Hope you have fun with this brain teaser!
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Same Shade Diamonds Our newest optical illusion.
We just created it on 10/10/2009
Wow! It will look like the diamonds on the top are much darker than the diamonds on the bottom.
You won't believe how amazing this incredible optical illusion is.
Watch as the scary faces disappear before your eyes.
The longer you stare the stronger the illusion. Perfect to send to your friends for Halloween!
The Obama Illusion
We made this original Barack Obama Illusion and then we made it famous!
Stare for about 30 seconds and you'll see his ghostly image appear on the wall!
Valentines Day Love Test Illusion
This is one of our most highly rated illusions by our visitors. Watch the hearts disappear before your very eyes!
This is really cool. You'll start to see the hearts disappear as you fixate at the center. Don't miss it.
Moving Spiral Illusion
A version of our original moving spiral illusion was recently published in a popular college textbook.
It uses multiple illusory principles to give the illusion that it is moving when it is absolutely not moving. Big enough to be your desktop background!
Build Your Own Impossible Triangle
Instructions so you can build your own impossible triangle. Tell M.C. Escher that it's not so impossible after all!
Comes with a printable PDF guide with dotted lines for the folds and clearly marked lines to cut. See pictures of visitors submitted triangles too!
If you don't have time to see the hundreds of illusions today, see if you can at least catch all of these...
