131 Responses

1. Deloris says:

   December 28, 2008 at 5:37

   29 – 30 times
2. Deloris says:

   December 28, 2008 at 5:43

   I only saw the gorilla after I went back to watch it without counting the passes. The first time I watched it twice and counted 24 then 29 times and never saw the gorilla. So I guess with watching the ball I did not see the gorilla and with watching for the gorilla I couldn’t count the number of passes. One thing at a time, I guess.
3. Brian K says:

   January 1, 2009 at 2:51

   Man I feel like such a tard for cheating and looking at the answer first, but I counted 34.
4. Nessy says:

   January 5, 2009 at 11:35

   my teacher loves this site, i like the gurilla, how many times did tyhey actually pass the ball i got like 30 times.?
5. ricardo says:

   January 9, 2009 at 11:04

   i counted 31 passes but at the end of the video 1 pass is about to happen but the video stops so its 31
6. sorcha says:

   January 16, 2009 at 1:42

   got distracted by the gorilla couldnt keep count of the basketballs
7. Gaurav says:

   January 22, 2009 at 12:47

   Hi,
   I counted 27 for the first time and didn’t noticed the gorilla however after reading the comments i saw that video again and noticed the gorilla and noticed 29 passes.

   Just wanted to know Personal who observed gorrila first time are less stressed? Wats ur view on this.?
8. Margaret says:

   January 25, 2009 at 6:08

   I totally lost count when the gorilla came in. Then I just watched the gorilla and stopped counting. lol
9. Karma says:

   January 25, 2009 at 11:06

   I counted 29 passes and briefly noticed the gorilla… but I wanted to count the passes so I didn’t watch him much. I’m not even sure if he got the ball :p
10. Hedin R Joensen says:

    February 24, 2009 at 7:28

    I counted 32 hand-offs and 1 raged gorilla.
    I counted the hand-offs by focusing on both basketballs at the same time and remembering who had the ball the last time I checked…

    I cannot assume that I counted correctly. Does anyone know the ‘actual’ number of hand-offs ?

    Hedin.
11. James says:

    February 26, 2009 at 1:17

    I counted 27, plus 1 gorilla.
12. Susie says:

    February 27, 2009 at 4:05

    The first time I watched I counted 30 passes,saw the gorilla & the S’s, but didn’t notice the white/white and black/black passing combinations. I’m thinking that it’s because I’ve been an elementary teacher for 20 years. For example, I’ve had to train myself to watch all of my children on the playground at the same time, though they may be doing different activities. I have to conduct a small reading group, while monitoring the computer station, the independent workers, etc. to make sure that everyone is on task while interacting with the reading group as well as taking mental notes to write down informal assessment grades for each child in the reading group between that group and the next.
13. Susie says:

    February 27, 2009 at 4:13

    I watched it a second time, focusing on the white shirts passing to white shirts and got 15. The third time I focused on black shirts passing to black shirts and counted 20, though I wasn’t quite sure because it looked as though the ball had been passed off out of view a couple of times. The second and third time I did notice the gorilla, but I didn’t notice the S’s, even though I had noticed them the first time I watched.
14. kayare says:

    March 1, 2009 at 11:38

    i counted 28 but the gorilla got in the way then i lost count.. so how many passes are there??
15. nick says:

    March 14, 2009 at 7:10

    I only counted 29 and I saw the monkey the first the only reason I watched it twice more is because some ppl were saying 30 + times I counted 29 three times
16. nick says:

    March 14, 2009 at 7:47

    My bad 33 passes and the monkey and blacks pass 2 black and white pass to white…….and they pass in a sequence they only pass to the same person each time
17. Hameed says:

    April 1, 2009 at 2:37

    I see 14 times ball changed hands between white dress group and 18 times among black dress group…
18. Ash02 says:

    April 2, 2009 at 6:53

    31
19. LaLaLa2012 says:

    April 5, 2009 at 2:03

    I didn’t see the gorilla you guys are talking about. Or the flying pig…
20. ardit says:

    April 18, 2009 at 3:40

    32 I didn’t see any gorilla.
21. Kimmie says:

    April 19, 2009 at 9:05

    I seen two teams of three, two balls and one gorilla. Between the two teams I counted 33 passes.
22. benedict says:

    April 20, 2009 at 10:04

    the visual noise was very distracting, its futile to count the passes… no I did not see the gorilla the first time…
23. chris says:

    April 25, 2009 at 8:44

    well, i counted 29 then 24 and saw the gorilla both times.
24. Muddy says:

    April 27, 2009 at 4:12

    Saw a black thing in the video but was busy in counting passes..thay come out to be 28
25. Tammy says:

    May 18, 2009 at 11:16

    i counted 29
26. hailrasec says:

    October 13, 2009 at 9:52

    29
27. i dunno says:

    October 21, 2009 at 10:41

    This is pretty interesting. I did see the gorilla, and counted only 27 passes. There were a few ‘fake” passes. Does anybody know the correct #? The study on the stranger asking directions, and changing as the door passed is very interesting. Great website. Glad to find it!
28. kirsti says:

    November 1, 2009 at 6:29

    haha seriously didn’t see the gorilla until i read someone had seem him. i was only focused on the balls. counted 29-30 i think.
29. Denis says:

    November 3, 2009 at 10:49

    haha i counted 29 times, i saw the gorilla but did not process the idea that he walked in
30. terry woodruff says:

    November 4, 2009 at 2:46

    i counted 31 passes , there may have been more but the dam gorilla got in the way.
31. Seanathan McAndrew says:

    November 6, 2009 at 11:23

    Saw this in class last week. It totally got me.