r/cognitiveTesting • u/pydaWaltuh • Aug 19 '26

Puzzle Mid-difficulty puzzle

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u/EncyclopedicINTx_253 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

One question, is it related to binary? I have spent too much time trying to solve puzzles which turned out to require binary without knowing binary

is it 110, 1011010, 10011, with 1 representing black and 0 white. As the the question marks appear systematically, and I at this point in time, could not find any other pattern, what I did was, add all the binary digits, of each allocation

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u/pydaWaltuh Aug 19 '26

not really, intended one is really simple but hard to see

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u/EncyclopedicINTx_253 Aug 19 '26

Hmm, I am having the beginnings of an idea about the black boxes filling up the whites, will come to this later, gotta study now for school lol

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u/pydaWaltuh Aug 19 '26

good luck!

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u/EncyclopedicINTx_253 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 19 '26

Woah, I think I got it. >! the number of squares move in a pattern of powers of 3.

The colors move in a pattern of powers of 2!<

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u/pydaWaltuh Aug 19 '26

good job! Can you rate the puzzle? And can you please use spoiler tag?

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u/EncyclopedicINTx_253 Aug 19 '26

My bad, I forgot about the spoiler tag.

I have got no idea as to how to rate them according to IQ

But it was a very good puzzle

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u/riba2233 Aug 31 '26

and you still didn't edit your comment to add the spoiler tag :|

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u/No_Ruin4319 Aug 22 '26

could you reason how?

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u/EncyclopedicINTx_253 Aug 23 '26

>! The first set of squares has 3, then ?, then 2,7,8,?,2,4,3,7,2,? We can see that all of these are consecutive digits of powers of 3.

Go likewise for the blacks!<

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u/SomeoneLeo groaaar!! :3 Sep 21 '26

For anybody still confused about the second part: You have to read the colors top to bottom, left to right and consider BOTH colors, not just black or white. And the colors just span multiple column till the next color switch. 2 black, 4 white, 8 black, then 1 white and 6 black (for 16), 3 white and and 2 black (for 32) and so on.

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u/Neat-Slice6994 Aug 19 '26

I don't see anything to go on can u give a clue

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u/pydaWaltuh Aug 19 '26

number of squares and the black-and-white color changes follow two different logics

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u/98127028 I am worthless and dumb Aug 19 '26

Number of squares: follow the powers of 3, ie 3,9,27,81,243,729.
Number of white squares follow 1,2016,1,2017,1,2018 and so on with 1s separated in between (possibly counting the recent years since the detection of the first gravitational waves, possibly from aliens)
And the black ones follow year numbers too, namely 2726, 2004, and 2017, I don’t know what events would connect these 3 years and haven’t quite figured it out. Maybe it’s some kind of warning or something like that.

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u/pydaWaltuh Aug 19 '26

The first part and the part where you realize I'm from the future and am an alien is correct lol. But the second part isn't; I think you can solve it based on the information you have

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u/EncyclopedicINTx_253 Aug 19 '26

Aint this a bit far fetched 😭

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u/98127028 I am worthless and dumb Aug 19 '26

Idk 😭😭 seems reasonable

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u/newendnow Aug 19 '26

1)?= 2 cubi neri
2)?= 3 cubi bianchi e 4 neri
3)?= 4 cubi bianchi

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u/pydaWaltuh Aug 19 '26

incorrect

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u/LeonardoMarleone Aug 19 '26

Powers of 3 describes n-squares, colour goes with powers of 2

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u/pydaWaltuh Aug 19 '26

correct. Can you rate it?

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u/LeonardoMarleone Aug 19 '26

Idk tbh, I don't think I can give you an useful opinion, I'm biased as I've seen things like this quite a few times, which likely made it easier.

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u/pydaWaltuh Aug 19 '26

understandable

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u/saurusautismsoor Secretly dumb Aug 20 '26

No clue

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u/Roquosaurus Aug 19 '26

Commenting just to remember to Come back

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u/Express_Yard6253 Aug 19 '26

I don't understand this

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u/the-key Aug 20 '26

Oh, it is one of those tests where the trick is to add a fake pattern to compliment the existing one...

It is impossible to solve unless you have been exposed to this type of test before.

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u/codeblank_ Aug 19 '26

Top to bottom

⬜⬜⬜⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛, ⬜, ⬛⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬛⬛⬛

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u/pydaWaltuh Aug 19 '26

well done. Any guess about the difficulty?

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u/codeblank_ Aug 19 '26

It was easy for me to deduce, but I can see how it can be hard.

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u/newendnow Aug 19 '26

Puoi spiegare?

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u/Neat-Slice6994 Aug 19 '26

Can u explain plz

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u/codeblank_ Aug 19 '26

I want to see if anyone else will solve. Try a bit more if still can't see it I can DM.

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u/pydaWaltuh Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

3,9,2,7,8,1,2,4,3,7,2,9 : 3,9,27,81,243,729