Sep 13, 2008
Games for the Brain
By: Alvaro Fernandez
Today we introduce a highly evolved version of brain teasers.
How quickly can you provide the correct answer to these 3 questions?
- 1) What is going on in these 2 pictures below?
- 2) what may explain it?
- 3) Is there some element out of place?
Ready. Set. Go!
Please post your answers and time below. If you need to check the answer right now…you can watch this 2-minute video (with sound) Here.
And here you have more brain teasing games:
Enjoy!
there is just a mirror in front of people which makes a picture of a full train.
Socks! The people are only wearing socks on their feet in one picture and they’re wearing shoes over their sicks in the other picture.
It took about 3 seconds.
The people are wearing shoes in one picture and no shoes in the other.
It took about three seconds to see it.
The people appear mirrored from one side to the other, but the train is not (the posters give it away). Then with closer inspection you see the people are just slightly different from one side to the other. Either the photo was taken twice and photoshopped together with the people switching sides, or this is one photo with a bunch of twins. Saw it in probably about 6 seconds. There is also a woman who is only on one side of the train in both photos. Didn’t see that until I looked at the photo again for a while.
in 1st picture there wearing shoes in the other picture there not wearing shoes
They’re sets of twins on their way to participate in scientific testing…
Improv Everywhere!
These are pairs of twins who participated in an event through Improv Everywhere.
at first it looks like a mirror image but it must be a train of twins because the train interior is not mirrored and there are some slight variances between the like people…and there is at least one extra person without a twin. They could be going to a twin convention. about 12 seconds
It looks like a train of identical twins. In one photo
one set is standing and in second photo they’re sitting. This was just a quick look. I also noticed socks in second photo.
On second look there are a great deal of differences.
Newspapers,yellow bags, white tipped toes, ajusting of what appears to be ear phones,etc.
looks like mirror image of train car passengers, but car is elongated and ovoid; woman in coat standing near rear not in identical position, car is longer than it should be. that’s what i saw in about 30 secs.
they people are mirrored but the walls of the train are different 11:32 PM 9/14
Ed Spradley and George nailed it!
1) Several couples of twins are facing each other in a real train.
2) As part of a prank organized by Improv Everywhere. The effect is called a “human mirror”.
3) There is only one person out of place, wearing a beret, reading a book, who was not part of the prank.
I’ve seen this on a video before. Lots of identical twins gathered to make that joke in wich they would act as if in fron of a mirror.
It took me about 20 seconds to satisfy myself that a large mirror was not involved. I had thought of the twins angle but dismissed it as too complicated. I thought it was two pictures ‘photoshopped’ together.
rearview mirror view from busdriver’s perspective
It is clearly sets of twins, trying to look like a mirrored image
A mirror has been placed aligned with the “z” axis of the photo (parallel to the length of the subway car or bus). This duplicates either the left or fight side of the photo onto the opposite side.
photos are mirrored; each left/right, and top/bottom between the two. Standing female is seated in 2nd photo, and standing male inserted instead. approx 15 seconds
These are photos taken from opposites sides of a train cabin. The lady sitting in the lower photo is standing in the upper photo. And the photo is not a mirror effect they are all twins insisde this train
the man reading the newspaper and the women with the white top and handbag have pinched the seat the cameraperson was aiming for. As well as evryone shuffling to the other side and some being mixed up as to placement. About 30 secs. Slow typing.
I agree with Ed Spradley and if you take a reeeally good look you will notice a lot more differences.
At first glance though the trick does work!
these are mirror images of train from two different ends.
It is a good teaser and i enjoyed it very much though i was not able to participate. Keep up the good work
I couldn’t see where to leave a reply, without reading previous answers. This should not be imediately under the question? Anyway, I thought that there was a mirror down the center of the carriage.
There are many things going on in these pictures. They are NOT mirror images because some of the individuals are in slightly different posistions in both pictures (even if on opposite sides). Notice the lady’s hands are different on the white bag in the bottom picture and also the lady with the blue hair ribbon on the top pic, her chin is raised on one side and level on the other. Also, the backgrounds are different in both. It’s very possbile they simply had these people switch sides and snapped separate pictures with most in as exact positions as possible.
The thing going on in this pictures is simple, they are not mirror reflection because the people alike are is a minimal diferent position. Is not the same subeat because the posters and the light is diferent and there is a person missing in both pictures (the lady reading the book) her –pair– is not in front of her. Cool experiment
That’s cool! I thought mirror at first too. But I didn’t time how long it took for me to catch the differences.
I kinda cheated, I already had seen the video on Improv Everywhere.
Taken from opposites ends of the train car after a stop .. also a couple of shots each time which show slight differences in position …
To achieve this effect in both pictures, 4 different pictures have been taken, at two different stops; 1 picture taken from each end of the train at each stop.
LEFT HALF of top picture was taken at the 1ST STOP by the guy in the black coat (that you can see in the bottom pic).
RIGHT HALF of top picture was taken by that same guy, but at the 2ND STOP *which explain why the reading lady doesn’t have her “reflection” as the others (she left the train before the pic was taken).
LEFT HALF of bottom picture was taken at the FIRST STOP by the girl standing with the white trench coat seen on top picture.
RIGHT HALF of bottom picture was taken, once again by that same girl, but at the 2ND STOP, where once again, the reading lady is missing.
I observed that the two pictures are not the same, also the pictures onthe opposite side have some significant differencec that can only be noticed with very close observation.
8 seconds of close look.
there is a mirror.…one side is true and the other just a mirror side
Hahaha..There are same people who sitting beside them..It’s kinda nice trick..and some one placing a camera on the vertical side of that train so that we can see the image of the person in vertical side..so it’s a trick..lol.…All are people who sitting beside them.. lol
Also the girl in first picture ..her head was straight but other side her head was down..haha..It’s trick..Nice man..
they’re sets of identical twins sat opposite each other as a mirror image, but their hair is different and their faces are slightyl different.
They are sets of identical twins.…I saw this experiment done to see how the public would re-act. I’m sure they sconfused alot of subway riders!
there mirrors one mirror is concave which is shrinking the image and one is convex which is stretching it
First off I am a monocular visioned person (1 human eye) but what was different was obvious. In the top picture and bottom picture, the number 4 passenger was missing on one side of the image but present in the mirror image. This only took a couple seconds to see. What doesn’t surprise me is that people with two human eyes can’t see this but people with one eye can see it. That is why I am a better commercial vehicle driver and airplane pilot. People with one eye can see things with greater detail than people with two eyes. Go figure.
These people in participants in ImprovEverywhere in NYC.
The girl with the head band is in a different posistion and so is the pole which she is holding on the left but not the right. the mirror stuff is obvious . I think 20 seconds should of looked another minute I see shoes
pairs of duplicates face each other.
mirror reflects persons
BBQ sign opposite a map
Its improv everywhere from you tube, theyre great, they’re all twins, they freaked people out in the subway and stuff, it was hilarious!!!! if you havent seen them you should check them out!
ok…so this is really late, but the sock thing is bogus…the bigger girl on the end is wearing rainboots and the second girl has on two-tone (gray/black) shoes…
NOT SOCKS
otherwise…ditto the twin thing everyone else mentioned
twins going to the twin convention on the subway?
either it’s a mirror image or they just have a train full of twins
their all twins. Its not a mirror image because the trains have different ads on each side.
in the photo there are identical twins sitting across from each other giving the illusion of a mirror effect
Both trains have people that are wearing the same clothes and look alike — you will see they are not posing exactly the same way. In both pictures there is a person who has no one the same across from him — the picture was taken from two different sides — it was in less than a minute i saw it.
they are all twins