This is simply wonderful. Take a look at the illustration below and see if you can spot the face. Once you have seen it you won’t believe that you once didn’t see it…
Don’t say where it is, but feel free to say if you spotted it and long long it took. This probably says something about you, but I have no idea what.
Update: If you are stuck, there is a clue after the break….
Bottom left
Been staring at it for a couple minutes and absolutely nothing. This isn’t one of thos magic eye type things is it? Because I know I can’t do those.
Me too. I feel like I’m staring at one of those damn Magic Eye 3D posters I could never get to work.
The face is in one bean rather than the beans put together if that helps.
Thank you Xia that was a big help. I can see it now.
Yes, thank you, Xia! NOW I see it.
It is NOT made up of a couple beans, it is only one bean. It is not like one of those “see what you want” paintings.
god well your stupid
GOD YOUR STUPID!!
well then you is stupid! troloolol
well i fouond it in like a second you iddiot, how is it hard? esmerelda is disapointed in you baby cakes!xoxoxox
esmerelda is disapointed that you cant find it
xoxoxoxo
It took me only 3 seconds to find it.
me too
me too!
hiya my name is crise kendall and this is my twittar
Yup found it. It took a few seconds.
WELL DONE MAURICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHERRY WALLIS IS PROUD OF YOU!! I LUFF YOU
OMFG CHERRY WALLIS!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU CHERRY
WHY ARE YOU UP SO EARLY?! LOVE YOU SMEXY THANG
Nothing magic eye or 3D thingy. Indeed just a plain male face. Once you see it, you will keep seeing it. Seen this photo a few years ago and took me I guess a minute or so. Now it seems strange that it took me so long
Cheers
Stared at it for a few minutes but couldn’t find it. But I spotted it right away after I started checking each section of the image one by one.
Took me a minute or two. I also tried the 3D thingy, defocusing the eyes and all that, but it didn’t/doesn’t help.
Wow, this one took me a while. A good half hour of staring and finding nothing. I had completely the wrong idea about what sort of “face” I was looking for, so I missed the completely obvious.
aaahh, scary!
Found it quickly, but only because I’d seen it before. Once you see it you can’t unsee it. However, it took me considerably longer than that my first time encountering this one.
I found it in a couple of seconds.
show off
show off!
shoiw off!
Go Daniel! I love how smart you are! xxxxx
Stared at it for a while, didn’t see anything. Looked away for a bit. When I came back I saw it immediately.
I also was looking for something pareidolic (?).
Took about a minute to spot it. Was looking for one of those magic eye things before I spotted it.
love your name hot stuff
I wasted a while looking for a magic eye thing. To save you hours of defocussed eyes, it’s not a pattern from the whole picture.
Took about 20-30 seconds
It took me less than 1 minute to find it (him)!..LOL
I needed help to find it. I was looking for the wrong thing. Like it!
Saw it, around the 15 second mark I estimate.
hello i like your name it is awesome!
About a second which is odd because I’ve seen this one before & never been able to see it.
Found it pretty much straight away
show OFF!!!!! i hate you forever Darren! not really babe love ya!
About ten seconds
Isn’t it a global/analytic – big picture/small picture thing?
5 seconds. seen it a while ago
5 secs.
Roughly 10-15 seconds. Saw it out of the corner of my eye when reading the text below the image.
Not long – less than 20 seconds, FWIW
I needed the clue to spot it. I had been looking for a larger face…
well den you stupid! look to the western sky and defy gravity!
I only found it because I have seen it before, the first time took me aaaaages though!
why did you even comment, justt why?!
I found that in about 10 seconds …. what does that say?!
It tells us you is stupid!!!!
Few seconds – can’t do Magic Eye stuff so didn’t even try it. Just looked methodically in small columns up and down until I saw the eyes.
It took me about 5 seconds to find it.
Yes Ellika you are so smart. Well Good day to yal! xx
Took me ages plus the tip, then.. arghghh!
Took me about 8 seconds, Richard. Nice!
(and then saw what you meant!!)
Ha ha ha!!!
hello well arnt you clever! love you xxxxxxxxxxx
You are so welcome! I’m in love! xx
I also needed the clue to find it because i was looking for a larger face to appear out of nowhere, kind of like those 3-d pictures
Took me about 4 minutes. Like others, I was looking for a magic eye-type effect.
CHERRY WALLIS WOULD BE PROUD
it took me a minute to find it.
WELL HEY THERE CAROLINA
yep seen it
took me a minute – had to focus on the detail rather than the bigger picture. that makes a change on these images
Oh you mean a face, like a wee head keeking out? I spent positively ages trying to see the beans make a face shape. And it’s more bottom left of centre!
By the way, the “Jesus on the toilet door” in Ikea Glasgow looks like our friend who works there.
i found it in a minute or 2, but i can still believe at first i didn’t see it since it is not very big and obvious
Yeh spotted it in about 10 seconds. Doubt that says anything though. Although it does look a bit like me! Does that mean I’m an egotist or something LOL!
Poor man .. Where did you get these huge beans from btw?
definitely not what i was expecting– it took a good 10 minutes to find it. i needed the hint of looking at smaller sections of the image (i was expecting a bigger face)
About a minute. After I haven’t seen it at the first glance, I started looking for it systematically and found it.
Nice. 20 seconds ish
About 1 second
Well that`s discrimination
Obviously have too much time on my hands – about 2 mins but canme as a shock!
About a second
cool!
I saw this in about 30 seconds!
about 20 seconds~very interesting~
took a bit under 30 seconds
tricky though
cause i was looking for the magic eye effect too
but it’s true, after i found it wondered how i’d failed to see it right away
Took about 2-3 minutes. May have been longer if I hadn’t read the “one bean” comment.
Took me a few minutes, because I was looking for a pattern among the beans and not examining them individually! Very good Richard!
Scared the hell out of me!
Spotted it almost immediately. Under a second, I think.
It took me about 30 seconds, but I was looking for beans in the shape of a face not a face in the beans.
It is the face of God and he tells me to stop messing around with these things and do some damn work!
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Wow, I found it right away. What does that say about me? Hmmm? Special? Sure, going with that.
Found it in about 30 seconds of systematic searching. Started by going a bit unfocused and looking for it in a pattern of beans, then systematically searched smaller bits till I got to looking at individual beans. Now, is it photoshopped in or is it para-watchamacalit?
Couldn’t find it until I saw the clue…kept trying to see a face comprised of lots of beans
Once I saw bottom left…about 3 seconds.
I sptoted it boefre I eevn lokoed at it. Deos taht mkae me eevn special-er? ha
I’m with Simon Says. It took me maybe a second.
found it with help.
But strangely, with the magic eye thingie I seem to see an old religious guy (with a kaftan and a mustache) looking down and to the left on the right hand side of the picture. Though clearly no one else does so I guess I’m just nutty (or beany).
I’ve seen this before, so I saw the face instantly. Wah.
Creepy. Way creepy.
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45 seconds….more or less
i dont get it, is you a baby siter or sumit?!
wwihh, i found it!
I couldn’t see it until I read the clue.
About 15 seconds.
Reminds me of Mameshiba, the beandogs http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4F7D4F3F2B624714&search_query=bean+dog
I cheated…… But it`s really good
That took me a while, is it wrong to say it bears some resemblance to Derren Brown?
saw it!
about 6 min. in spotted it…before I read any clues……….so that says something about me…………………………Like what the heck are you doing?
Ok..wow. I’d seen this picture before, & never got it..after I read ALL the comments, & the “one bean” thing, when I scrolled alll the way back up, it was the first thing I saw…and nearly jumped out of my seat!! FREAKY!
And wow, I can’t believe I never saw it before…what a loser, lol..
haaaa I’m kind of embarrassed how long it took me- I was convinced it was a magic eye sort of thing. and it is a little creepy too!
I think the comments are telling: those who stared at the picture as a whole had a hard time; those who searched section by section found it quickly. Maybe we all need to learn to change-up our methodology every now & then. Fun post, thanks!
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Those must be some really big beans. I would be a little frightened if I found that guy in my giant beans.
neat..it took me a second
About 3 seconds
I knew I had seen this before (some years ago), yet it took me a minute or two figure it out. Initially, I too was looking for a face made up of beans rather than a face masquerading as a single bean.
Saw nothing in the minutes before reading the clue, but then I got it immediate. And now there is no chance not seeing it, the eyes are focussing the face instantaneously.
I got it in about 7 secs
ARG. I can never see those kinds of things. I stare until I get a headache.
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Indeed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks for the tip about it being in one bean. The forehead is coming up first.
Wow, I saw it instantly. BTW its not a magic eye thing, its one small bean that is a face.
Took me 4 or 5 seconds to see it.
About 20 seconds. Reminded me of this: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/2009/10/14/eye-contact/
My pea brain quickly scanned the middle section, trying to make sense of shapes before eyeballing the periphery. And it was there… so easy to see. What fun!
Took me less than a minute. The face is a human face wedged between two coffee bean at the bottom lefthand side of the frame. Yipeeee!
I spotted in 3 seconds
Very cool-thanks!
Wow that took me longer than I thought it would. I needed the hint. Thanks for sharing that was cool!
2 seconds. I can’t believe I found it so fast.
Dunno if this only happened to me, but in the first few seconds I looked at it, I saw a big smiley face with several beans, not just one bean, as I read later on, and saw the male face. You can see the smiley face if you tilt your head slightly to the left – it’s on the left side of the pic. Not VERY distinct, but that’s what I saw first.
Creeepy. Hard to find at first, but once you know where it is, you spot it every time. Kelvin Kao’s technique of checking each section of the image worked for me.
lol I’ve seen this damn picture so many times and I could never see it, and today…I finally spot it…
its actually rather creepy.
Got it. I guess about 20 seconds, but it seemed to jump out at me after a brief scan.
it took me about 5 second i supposed. ^^
it took me three minutes. how creepy.
haha
took me two – three minutes..
I needed a hint from one of the comments above. Then it was a matter of seconds. If I hadn’t read that, I would probably be staring at the picture for hours.
Less than a second. It was the first thing I saw.
At first, I really struggled I think because I was thinking it was like a magic eye that involved many beans. But after about a minute, I saw it without reading your hint below the fold.
About 1 min, but I needed the clue.
Actually found what I thought was a very small face in the middle first. Then after reading the clue I found the face mentioned shortly after.
My daughter thought she saw a face in the middle at first, but eventually saw the other face.
ohhh. about 30 seconds. thought it was one of those illusions instead of a wheres wally. still cool though.
There are many of these sort of pictures and I don’t always see what I have to find. But with this one… I saw it right away. O_O Maybe being a coffee-addict helps?
It took me less than 30 seconds to spot it. Clever!
About 10 seconds
Don’t know what it says about me. Love coffee for sure 
It took about 20 seconds, very cool!
I found it!!! XD COOL!!!
that poor, poor guy. To have to go through life with the face that resembles a coffee bean! I love this… It took me about a good 15seconds.
Took me 5 seconds really.
About 20 seconds.
Took me 10 seconds. That face was creepy.
absolutely nothing! maybe i am blind? but i still see my keybord and letters to type. lol!
After reading the clue, 5 seconds…
Hahaha good one, I was starring at the coffee like about a minut, trying to make some form of the coffee beans .. and I thought I am stopping but then unexpected .. there he is … a face yo
Wooo…Creepy. Took me quite a while. Haha!
Two seconds.
I see it too. Took me maybe 20 seconds because I didn’t want to stare too long.
Awesome! I saw it after about 15 seconds. At first I thought it was one of those weird 3D images that I’ve never been able to see, but then I realised there was quite literally a face hidden among the beans. VERY clever!
yes, in about 45 seconds
Oh god, I see it, it’s LOOKING AT ME OMG
took me less than a minute
it’s supprisingly well hidden.
I absolutely could not see it until the hint. That’s genius.
no need long time to find it, just not really sure
Two days trying to find it on my ipod screen couldn’t see it – 5 seconds looking at it on my computer – saw it immediately. I guess size matters here.
I needed assistance… had the same magic eye thoughts in my head.
Took about 15 or so seconds to see the face.
Well, it took me only a half of minute to spot it, but only because the image was too large for my screen ;P
there is probably two faces i think?
a small one and a super big one.
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Couldn’t see it at all until I read the comments. That probably means I had small people in my coffee this morning without noticing them ::sigh::
Yes. It took me about 45 secs.
i found it in less than 8 seconds its so easy its at the bottom 3/4s to the left
i found it in less than 8 seconds its so easy its at the bottom 3/4s to the left and im 12
Thank you my friend
I saw it, but it took a couple of seconds. Most people go straight to searching for a pattern in the beans to make up the face, but that gets you nowhere!
seen it before. took me about 10secs 1st time, but only 1 or 2 the second
easy 1 second to do
Its not hard, it just took me a few secs
This one takes a while, but it’s only one coffee bean that makes up the face. Just don’t look at the center but very near the edge – kinda surprising when you suddenly see it!
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