Count The Little Black Dots

This is a great illusion, actually it hurts my eyes. This one has been passed around a good bit, came across it originally a few years ago though it just popped up in our inbox again. Usually known as the "Scintillation Grid", was discovered by a chap named Elke Lingelbach of the Institut fur Augenoptik Aalen in Germany and [...]

Count The Little Black Dots

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Count The Little Black Dots was written by F&J Staff on Monday, October 22nd, 2007 at 1:22 pmin Illusions, Pictures. You can follow comments through the Comments RSS feed. Similar jokes and stuff include , Black Hole Illusion , Sperm Count , Yo Mama Is So Black , Mommy, Is God Black or White? , Why There Are No Black NASCAR Drivers .

59 Comments to “Count The Little Black Dots”

• Olivia says:

  April 20, 2009 at 9:54 am

  owwwwwww my eyes that hurts
• Sam says:

  June 5, 2009 at 1:13 am

  35.
• Rachaelwrites says:

  June 18, 2009 at 12:53 pm

  0.
  It’s an illusion.
  There are no black dots.
• Tony says:

  July 7, 2009 at 12:19 am

  There are none. Easy joke.
• bish says:

  September 23, 2009 at 5:12 am

  WTF! I wonder how they did that it really hurts to look at dots that don’t exist. sam, r u ok?
• shocky says:

  January 26, 2010 at 7:25 pm

  bish: are you sure that it didn’t hurt? cuz i swear, my eyes just melted
• Holly says:

  February 13, 2010 at 3:02 am

  OWCH!! my eyes just got toally frazzled. I am gonna die now…:-(
• Dawn says:

  April 2, 2010 at 12:21 pm

  Elke is not a “chap.” A woman invented this illusion. Her husband is a German mathematician who is a co-author on the paper.
• theksta says:

  May 21, 2010 at 4:31 pm

  WOAH!!! CREEPY!! (^-^)