Puzzles and Illusions To Challenge Your Bored Brain

Popular Science

Bored at home? Test your brain with these puzzles and illusions. Then challenge your friends and family!

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Optical Illusions

These splotches hide an image if you think about it hard enough

These splotches hide an image if you think about it hard enough

Popular Science - Claire Maldarelli

These skulls look purple and orange. They are both red.

These skulls look purple and orange. They are both red.

Popular Science - Nicole Wetsman

This image has exactly 12 dots, but it’s impossible to see them all at once

This image has exactly 12 dots, but it’s impossible to see them all at once

Popular Science - Nicole Wetsman

Something in our brain is making these spirals look like they are moving

Something in our brain is making these spirals look like they are moving

Popular Science - Marissa Shieh

What color are these squiggly shapes?

What color are these squiggly shapes?

Popular Science - Claire Maldarelli

These strawberries aren’t red. Here’s why your brain is sure they are.

These strawberries aren’t red. Here’s why your brain is sure they are.

Popular Science - Nicole Wetsman

This staircase goes on forever. Or does it?

This staircase goes on forever. Or does it?

Popular Science - Sara Kiley Watson

This triangle doesn't exist

This triangle doesn't exist

Popular Science - Sara Kiley Watson

This optical illusion creates a handy fake flashlight

This optical illusion creates a handy fake flashlight

Popular Science - Nicole Wetsman

Why does one of these circles look so much smaller than the other?

Why does one of these circles look so much smaller than the other?

Popular Science - Claire Maldarelli

Puzzles and Illusions To Challenge Your Bored Brain