Only 1 in 7 get this right: How many holes does this T-shirt have?

Your brain sees a familiar object—a shirt—and immediately supplies the standard answer.

You probably recognize the four normal openings without consciously thinking about them.

Then the two tears are easy to overlook because your attention is initially focused on the shirt’s familiar shape.

And once you notice the tears, another question appears:

Do we count a hole once, or do

we count every opening created by the hole?

That’s where two perfectly reasonable people can arrive at different answers.

Let’s Break Down the Picture

Here’s the easiest way to approach