encourages you to stop at 9 because that’s the number mentioned in the caption:
“I see 9, and you? Be honest.”
That wording creates an interesting psychological effect.
Once someone tells you they see nine cats, your brain begins looking for nine.
When you reach nine, you may unconsciously decide you’ve found them all.
But the challenge is designed to make you keep looking.
Why Our Eyes Miss the Smaller Cats
There’s an interesting reason these puzzles can be surprisingly difficult.
Human vision doesn’t process every part of an image
