Go Games Optical Illusions

What’s real? What’s not? Reality is strange—and seeing isn’t believing. When you look at an optical illusion, your brain tries to fool your eyes and what you expect to find on the page isn’t what’s there. Apart from being both endlessly fascinating and awe-inspiring visually, these illusions also force viewers to go outside their comfort zones, challenge the nature of perception, and think creatively. Their minds have to work overtime to become more flexible. That’s what makes these 240 puzzles, ranging from simple scintillation effects to impossible staircases and concealed creatures, so absolutely addictive. See how Santa "measures up" to his helper; the scale doesn’t seem to be telling the truth! Compare two lines: one seems longer, but can’t that really be true? Look at a triangular sculpture and figure out if it’s "impossible." Move a picture from side to side and watch it spin. Try to "remove" a magic glass from the plate, count the number of "F"s in a line (but only read it once!), and locate the main subject in the masterpiece "Las Meninas," painted by the artist Diego Velazquez. This collection of illusions will enable you to experience the impossible and marvel at the miraculous.

Presents a collection of over two hundred optical illusions designed to trick the mind.

Unique way to get the mental exercise you need. The workout here is more focused as you'll be asked to draw on your powers of observation and visual reasoning skills in order to unlock the tricks behind these illusions. Perfect travel size!

Optical Illusions Game is a new game that resembles the emory game, but with three bonuses: 1. Instead of a set of two the player has to find a set of four. 2. When the set is completed, the player has to puzzle the four cards into one image. 3. Presto: the four cards form an image of an optical illusion to discover and marvel at. The goal of the game is to collect four cards that form one optical illusion. The player who collects the most optical illusions wins the game. The optical illusions in this game were selected by Paul Baars, a world famous author and expert on optical illusions. For this game he has selected a broad range of mindboggling illusions from the famous classical ones to new illusions created by contemporary designers and artists. The Optical Illusions Game consists of 80 cards and 20 illusions as well as a brochure in which the illusions are shown and briefly explained.

Like the other books in this series, Brain Games Optical Illusions is a unique and creative way to get the mental exercise you need. The workout here is more focused as you'll be asked to draw on your powers of observation visual reasoning skills in order to unlock the tricks behind these illusions. Optical illusions force you to think outside the box, helping to refresh your eyes to the world. Oftentimes we take for granted what we see--or see what we want to see--as our minds go on autopilot. The puzzles in this book remind us that things aren't always what they seem. Illusions are arranged by category--from tricks of perspective to perceived motion, there is no shortage of variety in this book.

"Train your brain with optical illusions! Do you think you can believe what your eyes are telling you? Think again! In this collection of optical illusions, nothing is as it seems. Pictures seem to move on the page. Drawings trick your eyes into believing a flat surface is 3-dimensional. Images that appear one way suddenly become something else entirely. These manipulations of space, depth, color, & form will challenge your powers of perception. Take a journey through the pages of Brain Games Optical Illusions & prepare to be amaed! After all, sometimes you can't believe your eyes!"--

A rich assortment of visual mind-bogglers, including "impossible objects" — constructions that look fine on paper but can't possibly exist in reality — as well as pulsating patterns, vanishing spots, pictures that suddenly change into other configurations as you're looking at them, and much more. 60 black-and-white illustrations.

This pictorial feast of rotations, geometric illusions, delusions, and other impossible images reveals the fascinating intersection of art, science, and magic. Includes many original illusions plus new adaptations of lesser-known visual tricks.