Puzzles!! Inductive reasoning

im guessing for the six sided star, we can pretty quickly see that the same shapes appear within a triangle when they hop over another triangle. For example black triangles hop over the black circle triangle, then you get the black triangles again. If you add all of the shapes together they all add to 6. so black triangles at the top is 4. and black triangles near the bottom = 2.. It's the same for all the others. So im hoping answer is b) the two white cricles.

For the last question the arrows point in very specific places. There has to be a reason for this. It's possible that arrows direction represents a clocks time based on the number of sides on each shape. But that doesn't explain why there are differing numbers of black/grey circles on each shape.

The third question is similar. Grey arrows match up with n-sides on the shape when representing time. a triangle has 3 sides, so the grey arrow will be 3 o clock. a square will be 4 o clock. ect

1.- B
2.- D(edited) xD
3.- B
4.- E
5.- -
6.- D
8.- B
11. C
12. A
13. -

1- should be D?
dont know why the guy above its B

Agree that 1. is D.

On September 13 2014 10:07 drone666 wrote: 1- should be D? dont know why the guy above its B

well we have 5 figures, and each appears 5 times except hearth and triangle, and we can asume its B or C, then we see, if i pick B we have the 2 and 3 lines with a repeat figure(star in 2 and hearth in 3), if we pick C we have 2 and 4 lines with a repeat figure(stars in 2 and hearth in 4), we can chose C and says figure just can repeat in pair lines. First i chosse B because hearth never apears next to another hearth, and if we chosse 3 this can be a new rule. well afther this write i think its C. srry bad english xD

1 I went with D, each shape appears once horizontally.
Same with 9, also D, each shape appears once horizontally. I did the whole thing and got rocked though, got 8/18...

not looking at other responses before posting because i dont want to be influenced in any way. part of what makes these problems fun is that our brains see patterns in everything, so will be interesting to see what rules other people came up with.

1: d.
each row has 5 different elements. so cant contain a heart, star, or square. must be d.

2: a
every column has 2 squares. so first column must be a square, limiting to a or d. every column also has each other shape once, so 2nd column is circle, 3rd triangle, 4th hex.

3: d
this one was a guess. i suspect the shape is dark because the first arrow comes in from the bottom. and id guess its not a parallelogram cause all other shapes have equal angles, so i choose the pentagon.

4: e
the 1 dot pictures all had 2 white, 2 gray, 1 black. the 2 dot picture has 2 gray 2 black 1 white, so this should be the same. im not even looking at patterns cause decoding that shit seems harder and unnecessary.

5 e
kind of a guess. seems like the odd number pictures have vertical lines and dots which are mirror images of each other. and 4 sided shapes seem to be horizontal lines, so id guess its not a 4 sided shape. e is the only one that fulfills all.

6: d
circle surrounding shape on left, y=x line. 2nd guess would be e cause positions of the 2 balls are similar to above picture, but i think the circle surrounding the shape is the more important rule.

7: already answered

8: b
call the little shape inside Y. dark Y from picture 2 top left, white Y from picture 1 bottom right.

9: already answered

10: already answered

11: c
has to be white balls to match lower right point of star. its not b because balls oriented wrong direction. not e for same reason

12: a
i think arrow is up and i think 2 white balls 1 gray 1 black.

13: e
kinda guessing cause im over it, but i think there should be >2 balls, middle gray, arrow towards right somewhere.

On September 13 2014 12:15 gawdawaful wrote: 1 I went with D, each shape appears once horizontally.

just looked at the first problem but there's no heart shape in the second horizontal line

nvm daut explained it gg :S

On September 13 2014 12:45 bigredhoss wrote: Show nested quote + On September 13 2014 12:15 gawdawaful wrote: 1 I went with D, each shape appears once horizontally. just looked at the first problem but there's no heart shape in the second horizontal line

he worded it wrong. down triangle different from up triangle. no identical matches appears in a row

yea read your post after i hit submit

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On September 13 2014 12:40 Daut wrote: not looking at other responses before posting because i dont want to be influenced in any way. part of what makes these problems fun is that our brains see patterns in everything, so will be interesting to see what rules other people came up with. 1: d. each row has 5 different elements. so cant contain a heart, star, or square. must be d. 2: a every column has 2 squares. so first column must be a square, limiting to a or d. every column also has each other shape once, so 2nd column is circle, 3rd triangle, 4th hex. 3: d this one was a guess. i suspect the shape is dark because the first arrow comes in from the bottom. and id guess its not a parallelogram cause all other shapes have equal angles, so i choose the pentagon. 4: e the 1 dot pictures all had 2 white, 2 gray, 1 black. the 2 dot picture has 2 gray 2 black 1 white, so this should be the same. im not even looking at patterns cause decoding that shit seems harder and unnecessary. 5 e kind of a guess. seems like the odd number pictures have vertical lines and dots which are mirror images of each other. and 4 sided shapes seem to be horizontal lines, so id guess its not a 4 sided shape. e is the only one that fulfills all. 6: d circle surrounding shape on left, y=x line. 2nd guess would be e cause positions of the 2 balls are similar to above picture, but i think the circle surrounding the shape is the more important rule. 7: already answered 8: b call the little shape inside Y. dark Y from picture 2 top left, white Y from picture 1 bottom right. 9: already answered 10: already answered 11: c has to be white balls to match lower right point of star. its not b because balls oriented wrong direction. not e for same reason 12: a i think arrow is up and i think 2 white balls 1 gray 1 black. 13: e kinda guessing cause im over it, but i think there should be >2 balls, middle gray, arrow towards right somewhere.

read through thread, changing 11 to b. should be 2 balls, noticed another (unfilled triangles) doesnt align perfectly and they all add up to 6 or 7 total things.

no. 3 : the white arrow is a clock face.so shape 1 is 3(triangle), 2 is 6(hexagon) etc

so d

4 is b

vertical and horizontal line switching.
even and odd dot switching

On September 14 2014 12:57 julep wrote: 4 is b vertical and horizontal line switching. even and odd dot switching

this is 5

On September 14 2014 12:38 julep wrote: no. 3 : the white arrow is a clock face.so shape 1 is 3(triangle), 2 is 6(hexagon) etc so d

yup, good observation. in general, something like "clock face" is much more likely to be a rule than something abstract like angles. good question to ask yourself is "could an 8 year old figure this out?" 8 year olds know how to read a clock, not about angles

On September 14 2014 13:00 julep wrote: Show nested quote + On September 14 2014 12:57 julep wrote: 4 is b vertical and horizontal line switching. even and odd dot switching this is 5

no dots can also fulfill an even number of dots. i went with the fact that the other two were also mirror images to rule out the offset dots.

13 is e. same logic as q3

On September 14 2014 13:00 julep wrote: Show nested quote + On September 14 2014 12:57 julep wrote: 4 is b vertical and horizontal line switching. even and odd dot switching this is 5

no dots can also fulfill an even number of dots. i went with the fact that the other two were also mirror images to rule out the offset dots.[/QUOTE]

ahh makes sense

if someone will be still interested, these are all the correct answers (although I know it is right, I could not understand the last one, any insight?):


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For 18. only A fits the logic of other squares.
For every horizontal line, there needs to be solid circle.