Whiskey drinking hiking trip optical illusion baffles social media

It may just be a harmless photo of four mates having a drink while out hiking. But this single snap has left the internet baffled.

It may just look like a casual outdoor snap of pals enjoying a whisky while on a hiking trip, but this single photo has baffled the internet because it actually contains not three but four people. But can you see them all?

The mind-boggling optical illusion emerged on Twitter at the weekend. At first it looks like one man in a kilt and hat clinking miniature whisky bottles with two friends, whose arms are outstretched.

But there are four drinks – suggesting there is a fourth person in the picture. So can you see them?

People are struggling to see the fourth person in this picture

Internet users are baffled by the snap.

We’ll give you a clue – the bag behind Mr Kilt is not a person.

Uploading the Reddit snap to Twitter, a social media user said: “My brain refuses to believe there are 4 people in this photo.”

And internet users were left stumped trying to find the fourth person.

One pleaded: “I’m confused … why are there only “3” arms, yet “4” bottles?”

Another wrote: “Me looking at this photo asking myself if im blind or if there’s something more going on here.”

Meanwhile, a third simply gave up and said: “Nope, canny see it.”

This camouflaged arm is the fourth person holding a whisky bottle

It’s only on a much closer inspection that you can spot the camouflaged sleeve attached to a blue gloved hand at the left-hand side of the picture.

And, trust me, once you spot it you will never be able to unsee it.

After a close examination, one Twitter user said: “I zoomed in, stared at those blue fingers for a good 30 seconds trying to figure it out.

“Multiple solutions went through my head. Maybe it’s a child underneath the cluster of hands.

“Maybe somebody is standing behind the guy in orange. Then I saw it.”

Another joked: “This is literally the first time I’ve seen camouflage work.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission