Can you see the number?
 

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

Yes should we tell what number

number
 

17 is what shows when the image is turned slightly.

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

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

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






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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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:

I see 17

“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.

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

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

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:

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.