# Count the people.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 22, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003 "2004-08-22T20:12:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003/1 "2004-08-22T20:12:52Z")
[http://digitalmass.org/Thisiscr.gif](http://digitalmass.org/Thisiscr.gif)
(worksafe)
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### Author:  [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003/2 "2004-08-22T20:24:38Z")
Allright, I did. Now what?
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### Author:  [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003/3 "2004-08-22T20:27:28Z")
:smack: and just when I thought I could count!
So what is happening here? Am I supposed to know? :o
🙂
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003/4 "2004-08-22T20:32:37Z")
> [@Tusculan](#):
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> Allright, I did. Now what?
Count them again. How many are there?
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003/5 "2004-08-22T20:55:20Z")
Hint. wait a few moments.
I don’t know how it works. I found it on another MB
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### Author:  [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003/6 "2004-08-22T21:03:24Z")
I still don’t get it. I count the same number each time. Maybe I’m stoopid or summat.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003/7 "2004-08-22T21:06:14Z")
> [@Tusculan](#):
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> I still don’t get it. I count the same number each time. Maybe I’m stoopid or summat.
Did you wait for it to re-arrange it’self?
Sorry to be vague.
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### Author:  [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003/8 "2004-08-22T21:30:56Z")
Very clever…
I’ve watched that thing for a while now, and it seems that they’re taking bits of several different characters to make a new one. Tall guy becomes short, long skinny face becomes short round face, hair becomes feet, etc.
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003/9 "2004-08-23T04:09:19Z")
Pretty standard old visual game, I remember seeing a version with a missing leprechan, but can’t find it online.
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### Author:  [@Pessor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pessor)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003/10 "2004-08-23T04:36:40Z")
I counted ten times. There’s something between 120 and 130 people there.
I’m sleepy!
:o
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### Author:  [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003/11 "2004-08-23T05:30:23Z")
When there are thirteen people instead of twelve, the guy on the far left is missing the very top of his head.
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### Author:  [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/count-the-people/261003/12 "2004-08-23T12:55:49Z")
There was a bar in Milwaukee that had a big game like this on the wall. Three pieces in the puzzle altogether, and the two on top would shift back and forth. It looked like one of the people disappeared when the pieces moved.
Now I remember. The people in the puzzle were spies, and the name of the bar was The Safehouse. Is it still there?