SubscribeCan you find the fault here?
(another one of my old antique puzzle cards)
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Old building-What’s wrong with the picture?
August 10th, 2007 |
Filed under: Brain Teasers and Puzzles, Find the Fault, Picture Puzzles, Puzzle Cards, Smartkit All Posts
The clock reads 1:00 so the sun shouldn’t be setting (or rising)
The clocks are set wrong 1:00, and the sun is rising or setting.
It’s sunrise (or sunset) and the clock is showing 1:00
Given where the sun is, there should be a shadow from the clock tower on the roof on the right.
The sun shouldn’t be setting at 1:00/13:00.
If this is a church (as it appears to be) there should be a cross on top of it, not just a stick….
I assume (and we know the common wisdom about this) that the poster wants us to comment on the position of the sun relative to the time shown on the clock. However, they do not take into account situations such as the white nights of St Petersburg, when the sun rises and falls at nonconventional times, etc.
thats an odd time for the sun to be down….
at 1:00 as the clock indicates, the sun would be either much higher in the sky (afternoon) or already below the skyline (night)
Too much light on the house, especially with the sun rising BEHIND the house.
The fault in this picture is the building clock shows 1 (pm or am) and the sun is setting
It’s 1′o’clock and the sun is on the horizon. It should either be high in the sky, or the middle of the night.
Other than the fact that it appears the clocks are different (I think one says 12:05 and the other one says 1:00), the perspective seems to be off. I can’t quite put my finger on it. It just looks wrong. Of course, it’s probably something really simple and obvious that I’m missing.
Prairie
the sun is either rising or setting, yet it is 1:00PM
I found another one: The clock says 1:00 so why is the sun setting at this time?
It’s hard to make out which hand is which, but the clock either reads 1:00 or 12:05 yet the sun is setting/rising in the background.
The sun shouldn’t be setting (or rising) at 1-2 o’clock regardless of whether it’s AM or PM.
something to do with the Sun and the shadows on the roofs?
It’s 1 o’clock but it looks like sunrise
the clock and the sun? whether the clock says 12:05 or 1:00, how can it be sunset/sunrise at noon/the middle of the night
I don’t know whether the sun is rising or sinking in this picture which might have had some bearing to the churches physical orientation as traditionally the alter of a church would face east “towards Jerusalem”. This however is not the problem here. If the sun is either rising or setting how come the church clock reads one o’clock. Do they need to raise a collection for urgent clock repairs?
Looks like the sun sets but it’s one o clock… it would either be noon or night.
The sun does not rise or set at one o’clock, and that is what the clock says.
The position of the sun and the time on the tower clock
The Sun is setting and the Time on the clock is 1:00.
The time seems to be wrong. The sun is already setting, and the clock says it’s still 1 o’clock. =)
Sun is setting (or rising) at 1:00.
the answer we were looking for: The sun can’t be setting at the time indicated on the clock.
The white nights of St. Petersburg sound interesting though!
There is no shadow for the angle the sun is at and the clock tower is set at the wrong time for the setting or rising sun.
the tree trunk is too thin for its height as well as the clock/sun error
The wrong thing is that the clock is showing the wrong time or has stopped
If this is supposed to be a church, it’s supposed to have a bell tower not a clock tower.
Dunno if it’s also elswhere, but in czech republic, they taught us that church entrances were always built facing west and this one is facing south (assuming it’s sunset not sunrise)
The clock shows 1:00 so it should not be a sunset
The tower is incomplete. It needs a crow.
the sun is setting, yet the clock says either 1:00 or 12:05 which makes no sense, also if the sun is setting behind the building, what exactly is illuminating that side of the building, also when ever do you see the sky turn that collor???
The sun and time are not necessarily an issue. Where is this church located? If in northern iceland, antacrica or the North pole, sun rises and sets sometimes once each season. It could be 1 PM just before summer starts or winter ends.