Can You Get a Perfect Score on This Optical Illusions Quiz?

By: Monica Lee
Estimated Completion Time
2 min
Can You Get a Perfect Score on This Optical Illusions Quiz?
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About This Quiz

From the Zollner Illusion to the Hering Illusion to the Kaniza Triangle, you'll be swayed to believe what you see. These are some of the optical illusions that are within this quiz. But these questions are not the only clever ones. You may be tricked by your own size perception of familiar objects. Or fooled by an object displayed at an unusual visual angle. Or your depth perception may become unreliable when patterns make the objects appear in three dimensions, convey texture, or false distance. 

When you think about it, our senses have evolved to help us accurately perceive a huge variety of things in very different conditions. The illusions on this quiz provide insight into how our senses work, and how they usually manage to do so astonishingly well. In fact, our minds will fill in the blanks of a picture or illustration without our conscious mind being aware of it. 

Of course, we'll have a few easy ones as well. They're the kind that, at a glance, you'll know which object is larger, smaller or the same size. Remember you don't need to get all of the answers correct, just 32 out of 40 to win the challenge. Is it crystal clear? Then start your quiz now. 

3 blue black folders
t_kimura / E+ / Getty Images
The light blue folder is bigger than the black folder, True or False?
True
False
6 grey squares
HowStuffWorks / Kristy Tucker
The small square on the left is a lighter shade than the one on the right, True or False?
True
False
1 pencil pen
DNY59 / E+ / Getty Images, Richard Newstead / Moment / Getty Images
The pencil is longer than the pen, True or False?
True
False

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2 horses GettyImages-108354061
Zero Creatives / Cultura / Getty Images
The horse on the right is smaller than the horse on the left, True or False?
True
False
5 red lines
HowStuffWorks / Kristy Tucker
The red lines are the same length, True or False?
True
False
9 bears
Ace_Create / DigitalVision Vectors / Getty Images
The bear on the left is bigger than the one on the right, True or False?
True
False

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8 oranges
eli_asenova / E+ / Getty Images
These two oranges are the same size, True or False?
True
False
22 vertical horizontal lines
HowStuffWorks / Kristy Tucker
The vertical line is longer than the horizontal line, True or False?
True
False
21 candy bars
Zoonar/P.Malyshev / Zoonar / Getty Images Plus / Getty Images
The candy bar on the left is bigger, True or False?
True
False

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13 horizontal lines
HowStuffWorks / Kristy Tucker
These horizontal lines are not slanted, True or False?
True
False
10 lines arrowheads
HowStuffWorks / Kristy Tucker
These lines are the same length, True or False?
True
False
20 lines arrowheads
HowStuffWorks / Kristy Tucker
Line B is longer, True or False?
True
False

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17 grey rectangles
HowStuffWorks / Kristy Tucker
All the interior rectangles are the same size, True or False?
True
False
Two Houses
Shutterstock
Of the two houses, the one on the left is smaller, True or False?
True
False
12 hats
mitza / E+ / Getty Images
These two hats are the exact same size, True or False?
True
False

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three pigs
Shutterstock
The pig in the middle is the smallest, True or False?
True
False
4 color dots
HowStuffWorks / Kristy Tucker
The center dots are different sizes, True or False?
True
False
31 Zollner_illusion
Wiki Commons
The long lines are parallel to each other, True or False?
True
False

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Two circles
Shutterstock
These two circles are the same size, True or False?
True
False
32 Hering_illusion
Wiki Commons
The red lines are bowed outward, True or False?
True
False
Two Cars
Shutterstock
Both cars are the same size, True or False?
True
False

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Two puppies
Shutterstock
The puppy on the right is slightly larger than the puppy on the left, True or False?
True
False
24 coffee mugs
s-cphoto / E+ / Getty Images
These two coffee mugs are the same size, True or False?
True
False
25 full moon
s-(C) Bill Pusztai / Moment / Getty Images, Whitworth Images / Moment Open / Getty Images
The size of the moon is bigger on the left of the page than at the right, True or False?
True
False

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28 coins
TokenPhoto / E+ / Getty Images
The closest coin is the dime, True or False?
True
False
plates
Shutterstock
These two plates of food are the same size, True or False?
True
False
36 laptops
skegbydave / E+ / Getty Images
The laptops are the exact same size, True or False?
True
False

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37 watercolor illusion
HowStuffWorks / Kristy Tucker
The space inside the large rectangle, and the space inside the smaller rectangles are the same color, True or False?
True
False
38 leaning tower of pisa
Piero M. Bianchi / Moment / Getty Images, Phooey / E+ / Getty Images
The right tower is leaning more than the left tower, True or False?
True
False
11 elephants
Jennifer Borton / DigitalVision Vectors / Getty Images
These elephants are three different sizes, True or False?
True
False

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34 Poggendorff_illusion
Wiki Commons
The black line is connected to the blue line, True or False?
True
False
35 Kanizsa_triangle
Wiki Commons
This image is a solid, white triangle pointing upward covering an inverted triangle and a set of black discs, True or False?
True
False
Socks
Shutterstock
The right sock is bigger than the left sock, True or False?
True
False

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