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It is pretty simple if you look at it long enough. The second row from the left starts out with two guys in it.
12 =3+2+2+3+2
Notice that the guy at far left has hair that sticks up.
As the picture changes, the other half slides over to make it a row of three.
13=3+3+2+3+2
Now the guy at far left has a flat top.
There is no extra guy. Pretty neat.

But where does the other head feet and legs come from?

Yea that explanation makes no sense. There are 12 heads and bodies...then there are 13 heads and bodies. And yea that far left guys hair gets chopped off a little and when the objects move theres an extra person on the left side. The queston is, how? You are simply making an observation... not an explanation. I thought about making multiple screen shots of this illusion (printing them out) and trying to figure it out. Maybe someone else online has figured it out and has a well thought out and thurough explanation. There are always five people on the right side but thats all I got.

The "flat top" guy is part of the solution. Actually, each person in the picture is part of the solution. In the picture with 12 figures it is 12 *complete* figures. In the figure with 13 figures, none of these figures are *complete* figures.

Look closely. The 1st figure (from the left) is missing the top of the head, the 4th figure is missing a part of the face, the 6th figure is missing the bottom of his feet. Etc... each figure is missing a small segment of the body. It is not enough to notice it at a first look, it is only 1/13th part (about 7%) that is missing from each figure. But 13 segments like that equals to one extra full figure.

So, to sum up:
-The first picture shows 12 "100%" figures.
-The second pucture shows 13 "92%" figures.

If there would have been more figures, then this would have been much harder to notice by just looking at the pictures. For example, with 100 "complete" figures you would only need to "borrow" about 1% from each figure to produce one extra person.

/Jimi Hulleg�rd

simply and briefly; canvas is bigger at the second picture. just because its white, it takes some time to figure it out.