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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

A truly amazing picture puzzle

Click on this link to check your eye for detail. German researchers found only 43 out of 8000 respondents could pick the three features in these pictures which were different. Via Maggie's Farm.

3 comments:

L>T said...

scared the hell out of me!

Jef Clark said...

It scared the hell out of me too L>T, that's why I simply HAD to link to it. I wanted to spread the "joy" around!

Anonymous said...

Ah yes.
That was 'truly' an 'amazing' picture puzzle.
One such that I feel of my chair just trying to nut it out.