Okay, what the hell is this?
“what’s wrong here”
whats wrong here?
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDD
EEE
FFF
GGG
HHH
III
JJJ
KKK
LLL
MMM
NNN
OOO
PPP
QQQ
RRR
SSS
TTT
UUU
VVV
WWW
XXX
YYY
ZZZ
Did you know that 80% of UCSD students could not find the error above? Repost this with the title “what’s wrong here”, and when you click “post “, the answer will be really obvious.
I’ve now got this message so many times I can’t count it. Is everybody trying to call me stupid? Nobody reveals the answer so are they trying to find it out by sending it on? (I haven’t sent it yet, keeping my dignity see… yeah right).
So what is the answer? Is it that everything’s repeated? Rack your brains.
You want a riddle? How about this:
Juliet comes home one night, and goes to her bedroom. Romeo is always there. She sees the window open so crosses over and closes it before going to sleep. In the morning she is alerted that Romeo has been found dead, outside, it a pool of water and broken glass. Below the same window. The bedroom’s on the ground floor. What’s going on?!?!
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Thanks. Any ideas on articles that might interest you? You’re not a real person are you…
I like your stuff. Cool writings.
lol ive been getting them too and its getting annoying. and Romeo is a fish 😀
Are you gonna tell us wot the f*ck’s goin on???
Romeo is a fish. Who lives in a glass bowl. On the window sill. And is knocked off by Juliet when she closes the window. Romeo dies because he has no water since the bowl smashed.
Anywhere close?
Or is it too out there?
Hey! Enjoyed the riddle. Keep it coming…and yes I, for one, am real.
The joke is that it says “Whats wrong here?” instead of “What’s wrong here?” The rows of triple letters are supposed to misdirect you.
Ding ding. Ash has the correct answer, as does Andre M. Romeo is a fish (and I thought I was special when I worked it out…). I realised it would have been a good idea to leave the answer as a comment… My bad.
Thanks Gypsy. And Fandango, glad to hear someone is real, but the riddle was a one time thing really. Unless another memory / riddle pops into my head…
Thanks deathwombat, it was a secret plea to find out the answer. Obviously I would not have been let into UCSD, but you would have been. Erm, congrats…
My guess is Romeo was banging Juliet’s mother who was on the top floor. He fell off the ladder when Juliet’s dad hit him on the head with a wine bottle breaking it embedding some pieces onto his skull which came apart when he fell into the pool of water.
It is also very possible that there is no error (besides the missing apostrophe, which could be a typo in recopying it so many times), and that the entire point is to get everybody to post it, trying to find the answer, and so propagating the message. Kind of a manual worm virus…
Interesting outlook aniche, but I think it was a “family-friendly” riddle.
Wow, I’d laid it to rest as well… That’s a good point though Seth and the main reason why I didn’t repost it. I don’t agree with chain letters…
There’s nothing wrong with the pattern. I’m pretty sure the “problem” is that there’s now apostrophe in the “Whats wrong here?” That’s probably why whoever posted it originally is so specific about the title you’re supposed to re-post it as. That’s why its supposed to be “really obvious.” Kinda silly in my opinion, but what you going to do?
I’m glad I didn’t spend any time trying to figure it out…
So everybody works it out easily except me? Brilliant.
And samuelpablo, I’ve received this so many times that it was bugging me (although I did forget about it). As you may have noticed though, it’s been figured out by other people for me.
I didn’t work it out but Google lead me to this page. If the apostrophe is the thing that’s wrong I consider myself sane for not figuring it out. 🙂
Funny. Once I received it, the phrase “what’s wrong here” already had the apostrophe…
It either seems to say “Whats wrong here?” or “What’s wrong here”.
To be honest, I’m so used to seeing appalling grammar on the internet that I figured it was just the sender being a moron.
strange, I saw the post on facebook, but it’s written as “What’s wrong here” there is no original or secondary title missing an apostrophe, this leads me to believe that the apostrophe wasn’t the point of the joke.
Regardless of “what’s wrong here” or “whats wrong here” you are #1 when people search on google: “Did you know that 80%” — looks like you’ve been blogging for about 3 months. How are the views? Get over 200 yet? You’ve got quite a few comments meaning there’s a bit of traffic…or people just like you. 😉
Yeah over 200 views for this post, I think it’s more to do with people like me wanting to know the answer more than my posts being interesting. The rest haven’t got over 10 views 😀
I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing…
the lack of apostrophe in “whats” – should be “what’s”
wtf! i wanna know what’s wrong…either that, or who ever made just wanted people to get fucked in the head…and there’s really ntn wrong!!!
woww
u people are stupid
im an 8th grader and i found out this thing in like 30seconds
the l’s are actually L lower cased
The i’s are lower cased L’s………………..
what is wrong here
Ok this has been presented as being an IQ test at UCSD, so the grammar should have been obvious to their high flying students. The joke here is that Americas best (like many of us) are pretty bad at spotting what’s right under our noses.
the only up side is if you got it congratulations, you are among the top %20 on the planet.
Oh and if not you are just lazy 😉
Live and learn
Heh… it comes in different versions. There’s the one lacking the apostrophe (in “whats” like this one), the one where the Is are lowercased Ls (which they’re not in this one… try copying it into an texteditor where it’s easier to distinguish), the one where one of the Os are a zero and then the one where the question mark is missing (our case seems to qualify for that too). …dunno anymore of them…
I’m fairly sure the original is either the “whats” or the question mark, since the trick is that you’ll realize it when you type in the subject of the message… (most people will tend to use proper grammar in what they’re writing themselves)
Ha….this is so stupid, it isn’t even funny.
The error mentioned is a logic error. The intent is that the error is the title “what’s wrong here?” as there is suppose to be nothing wrong with the sequence that follows. That is the error people could not find as people assume that it talking just about the sequence. However, it says “find the error above,” meaning this includes the title. The title is flawed (logic error) as nothing is wrong (or meant to be unless someone messed up in copying it).
Hope that helps. It is pretty stupid when you think about it, but that is the error above that it wants you to spot.
*copied this directly from facebook…notice there is no question mark*
What’s wrong here
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDD
EEE
FFF
GGG
HHH
III
JJJ
KKK
LLL
MMM
NNN
OOO
PPP
QQQ
RRR
SSS
TTT
UUU
VVV
WWW
XXX
YYY
ZZZ
Did you know that 80% of UCSD students could not find the error above? Repost this with the title “what’s wrong here”, and when you click “Forward “, the answer will be really obvious.
Our 8th grader doesn’t know there are different versions of this riddle. No matter the ortographic remarks (apostrophes or not), the riddle just asks what is wrong. I would simply say that the answer is “nothing is wrong”.
And the “i” is not a lower case “L”. It depends on the font.
I mean, that’s why the answer gets obvious when you forward it… nothing happens, so the answer has to be nothing.
not sure about it, but every time ive recieved it, the second speech mark in “post” or “forward” has a space and is then the wrong way round….could quite easily be a typing error though….
Romeo is a Fish in a fish tank and he was pushed out the window when she shut it.
no question mark
I think the problem is not the apostrophe but the fact that “kkk” is included in the post. Besides that it is just a plain annoying riddle and I’m not sure it was intended to be a racist remark.
Well perhaps 80% of UCSD students are smart and 20% are dumbasses
I believe the original thing is that there are lowercase lll instead of III. Why? Because when you push “Post” the mail you just sent will be previewed in a fixed font where you can spot the error. Hence “when you click “post “, the answer will be really obvious”.
However, some moron thought he/she could just type the alphabet when he/she would repost it.
So I think this is pretty neat – I’m inclined to think that it really was intended to be a practical joke, but the whole fixed width font argument is excellent. It’s cool that not only are there are some real versions where there actually is something wrong, there are some versions where (presumably) someone has retyped it “wrong” (i.e., correctly) and it doesn’t work.
The self referential “wrong” argument (there’s nothing wrong, which is something wrong) would have been great – you’d just need to rewrite it as:
There’s a mistake in the following sequence – can you find it?
AAA
…
ZZZ
80% of blah blah couldn’t find the error above – can you?
This alphabet thing has been bothering me for the longest time.
It states at the bottom: Repost this with the title “what’s wrong here”
Since the question mark is not included in the quotation my best guess is that the creator was telling everyone to post the title without the question mark, therefore posting bad grammar. I think there is nothing wrong with the alphabet and that was added to prevent us from noticing the actual mistake. 80% of UCSD students could not find the error above because they were too busy examining the alphabet.
In my opinion it is a really dumb riddle. The fish riddle was much better.
Its in the title.
Whats wrong?
It should be What’s
all the letters are repeated 3 times right?
the letter I is repeated 4 times.
The answer to the riddle is, that the question mark is missing…. “Whats wrong here” In the end of that sentence a question mark should have been placed, though its not.
Romeo is a fish.
Just wanted to let everyone know that the comment by bam sum (comment number 30) was on the right track. When you click the forward button the auto spell check underlines every 3 letter combo except AAA, BBB(took me awhile to figure out what that stood for), III (should look like the roman numeral 3),KKK, SSS,and WWW. They all abbreviate for something that the computer can recognize as an abbreviation. Its not a big mystery but its fun to see this continuously float around the internet.
ok so why the WWW turned into a website link due to the fact that a period closely followed the 3 W’s. But im hoping everyone knows that it should be WWW: World Wide Web.
i found an error “KKK”
probably not it.
but i can try XD
In the “T” section, the first two T’s are actually the pie symbol
Their is nothing wrong. When it says 80% of students can’t find the error, it literally means 80% couldn’t find any error cause there is no error. And it seems like most people here couldn’t find the error. The idea is for MOST people to tax themselves trying to find an error when none exists, hence “80% can’t find it”.
Thats a good all round answer, but what aboot the rest of the 20%?
the other 20% don’t try or invent the error as some here have done. It’s a can’t win scenario
yeah i think there is no error too..cos there’s another one about numbers which says that the same thing about the 80% of UCSD students not being able to find it. this one goes like
find the error, its impossible
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Did you know that 80% of UCDS students could not find the error above? Repost this with the title “Find the error, its impossible”, and when you click “Submit Post”, the answer will be really obvious
is “its” suppose to be “it’s”? i dont know u be the judge..i think its suppose to be nothing because when i reposted it and nothing happened i felt like a dumbass and i think thats the point..
but apparently this one is also in the title. because it states that its impossible however 20% of the students got it so thats supposed to be the error. but imagine if it was some kid who thought of fucking with ppls minds by creating this and watching the world crack their heads about it..it wud be fun to be in his shoes right now..he cud be reading this and laughing his ass off..
Ok. I am in the ninth grade and i figured it out. It’s the i’s they are lowercase L’s.
find the error, its impossible
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Did you know that 80% of UCDS students could not find the error above? Repost this with the title “Find the error, its impossible”, and when you click “Submit Post”, the answer will be really obvious
The reason why you have to send it on (usually by email) is because spell checker would pick up on the bad grammar by not including the question mark.
P.S. If someone has already said this appologies, I didn’t want to read through all comments
Guys, this is an ancient myspace prank, its been around since 2004 ( at least). There is no error, its just meant to frustrate people. The 80% (insert random school here) who didn’t find anything didn’t give in and make something up because they expected to find an error. Sorry to break it to you.
“what’s wrong here”
whats wrong here?
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDD
EEE
FFF
GGG
HHH
III
JJJ
KKK
LLL
MMM
NNN
OOO
PPP
QQQ
RRR
SSS
TTT
UUU
VVV
WWW
XXX
YYY
ZZZ
The error is grammatical. Title is wrong (a question )
following the blog, great stuff!
“Find the error, its impossible
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20”
The errors are grammatical.
Error 1: “Find the error” is a sentence and should end with a period.
Error 2: “its” is possessive but should be a contraction of “it is:” therefore, it should have an apostrophe.
Error 3: “Since “it’s impossible” is a sentence, “it’s” should have the i capitalized.
Error 4: “Since “It’s impossible” is a sentence, it should have punctuation at its end. Suggestions are a period or colon.
ERROR 5: IT is Possible. Since it is possible and there are more than one Error, Error should be Plural. (Find the Errors.)
Did 20% of students get it right?
I doubt it.
The riddle states that its impossible to find an error and yet also states that 20% of students solved it… if impossible then… its impossible not solved by 20% and unsolved by the other 80%
It’s amazing to see a riddle like this reborn again and again. this post and these comments are alive for already almost 3 years!
My guess the same as Christina’s: If it is “impossible” to find an error, how come that 20 % of UCDS which is actually a kindergarten managed to solve??
OK, maybe this was a typo, should read UCSD, but the answer would be the same.
Another guess: it is completelly wrong to forward this kind of stuff to all your contacts. Don’t do it!
Romeo is a fish , and someone probably threw something and broke his tank.
Being from the South, I thought “k k k” was the mistake.
what’s wrong here
His grammar “whats the word”. I’m in my 2nd year of college and we do these riddles
To test our thinking. I’ve done a bunch of these
To be honest and the answer is always there.
Wow that was odd. I just wrote an very long comment
but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t show up. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over
again. Anyway, just wanted to say fantastic blog!