Can you see the number?

[Greg Baehman]

They say only 3% of people can see the number, are you one of them?

[Bob Hayes]

Yes should we tell what number

[Daniel Carter]

17 is what shows when the image is turned slightly.

[Daniel Carter]

Also if you scroll it up and down quickly it shows.

[Daniel Carter]

Sorry Greg if I ruined it for you but these things have always fascinated me and I should not have blurted out the answer.

[Dean Romig]

I'm a three-percenter! :smiley7::cheers::clap:






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[Dean Romig]

When I was in the Air Force ('66 - '72) I could read the number on the tip of each prop blade (three blades per prop and each blade had a different number) of a Pratt & Whitney 4360 at idle.






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[Garry L Gordon]

I saw it! WhudidI win???:rotf:

[Greg Baehman]

When I first saw this little exercise I said to myself "I'm one of the 3%!" Then I posted this image here and low and behold virtually every respondent claims they can see a number, too! Albeit this is a very small sampling, there's just too many seeing a number to claim only 3% of all people can see a number.

Now this has got me wondering if the designer of this image, which first appeared in a scientific journal, is on to something . . . Could there be a number in there, besides the obvious, more cleverly disguised that only 3% can actually see?

[Jeff Davison]

Glasses off, it's plain as day. Glasses on, can't see it at all.

[Harry Collins]

Through trifocals I can see it out of the top and bottom lens, but not so well out of the middle lens.

[Bob Hayes]

I wonder if a computer screen ruins the example.On paper you would slide it around near as much.I saw it immediately while scroll the picture into view.

[Jack Kuzepski]

Scrolling up and down quickly is the only way I saw the number. Although my wife claims that I'm blind, deaf and totally oblivious to most things anyhow.

Jack

[Mark Ray]

Saw it immediately....usually do on these puzzles.

[Garry L Gordon]

I do think that "translating" the original image multiple times as you have through the post to our computers must have some influence on what can be seen. I have never been able to see the numbers in any hard copy printing before this.:banghead: I hope I'm wrong, because I was pretty excited to see the number for the first time. :whistle: Please don't tell my wife. I'll never hear the end of it!:crying:

[chris dawe]

I see 17

[Chad Hefflinger]

“Could there be a number in there, besides the obvious, more cleverly disguised that only 3% can actually see?”
There appears to be an eight digit number in the bottom left corner of the image but I can’t make it out. I do see the 17 though.

[Gerald McPherson]

I can see it if I reduce the size to 25%. Otherwise I do not see a 17.

[Gerald McPherson]

I can also see it by standing several feet away from the screen.

[Greg Baehman]

“Could there be a number in there, besides the obvious, more cleverly disguised that only 3% can actually see?”
There appears to be an eight digit number in the bottom left corner of the image but I can’t make it out. I do see the 17 though.
Yep, I can see there's something there, too. I wonder if the "17" was inserted to fool us and whatever it is in the lower left corner could possibly be the number that only 3% of us can see? :confused:

[Richard Flanders]

I see nothing looking straight at it. If I tip the screen back or lower my head to table level and look up at it, I can see the 17.