About
A puzzle site for people who look twice

Our eyes are quick and confident, and they are wrong more often than we notice. They skip over the key on the patterned rug. They swear two grey squares are different colours. They lose track of the third tile you flipped. Expercepth is built around those small failures, because catching one is a lot of fun.
We publish puzzles and short articles in five families, set in our own world: a twilight house of impossible rooms, where stairs loop back on themselves and something small is always hiding in plain sight.
The five families

Hidden objects

Optical illusions

Memory challenges

Pattern puzzles

Spot the difference
How we make them
01
Fair, then hard
A good puzzle is hard because you have not looked properly yet, not because it cheats. Every answer should feel obvious once you see it.
02
Explain the trick
When an illusion fools you, the article tells you why: what your eyes picked up and what your brain filled in.
03
Short sessions
Most puzzles take a few minutes. Look, find, move on with your day, or stay for one more.