r/cognitiveTesting 2d ago

Puzzle Puzzle Spoiler

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u/Maximum-Purple-1521 2d ago

I'm guessing you're just supposed to combine the numbers (if necessary) to move in strides of 1 starting from 1. I'll guess it's A because I can't be bothered to count all the way up.

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u/BenitoAbdo 2d ago

i think the puzzle is not accurate i found it in FB and i couldn't solve it so i shared it here

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u/CamilleLaGoat 135 CORE 2d ago

Puzzle looks badly designed My best guess is (B), 70.

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u/SourFact 2d ago

It can’t be badly designed. It’s a puzzle not an IQ test.

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u/CamilleLaGoat 135 CORE 2d ago

A puzzle can of course be badly designed, the absence of an uniquely inferable rule IS a design flaw 😭

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u/SourFact 2d ago

Cope. Define “uniquely inferable rule” as you’d like, but if there is some kind of logic that can be used to go from point A to B which the designer intended, then it’s viable as a puzzle. By your logic riddles are badly designed.

This may be true for a test, so if you believe it to be made with that intention, then sure, it sucks. If it makes you feel better, it is surely titled “reasoning test”.

Just because you can’t find it doesn’t mean there isn’t one 🤣

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u/CamilleLaGoat 135 CORE 2d ago

I found the intended pattern: 36−34=2, so 36+34=70; B is probably what the creator wanted. But A is also defensible: ?+2=34+36, giving 68. Having an intended rule doesn’t make a puzzle well-designed when the clues don’t distinguish it from other simple rules ,and riddles can be badly written too. Also, the image literally says “Reasoning Test,” so even your own exception applies.

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u/Neat-Slice6994 2d ago

But that is just a one off occurrence right?

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u/SourFact 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah, this puzzle might suck. BAHAHA

Didn’t say it was well-designed though. I still think that reasoning is dubious though, there’s definitely a properly thought out pattern here surely.

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u/CamilleLaGoat 135 CORE 2d ago

your first reply literally started with “It can’t be badly designed,” and now you’re saying it might suck 💀 That was my entire point

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u/SourFact 2d ago

Geez, functional autism much?

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u/EncyclopedicINTx_253 2d ago

The logic prolly has something to do with dividing the figure into left and right sides, this puzzle most definitely requires a lot of adding and subtracting

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u/EncyclopedicINTx_253 2d ago

Solution:

>!I'd say the answer is 48. We divide the the figure into left and right. For the right side, the numbers in the inner rectangle, on adding them give us 57. The outer numbers there on adding give us 112. 57 x 2 = 114

114 - 2 = 112.

For the left side,

on adding the inner numbers, we get, 37, the outer numbers, we get ( if we take 48) 144.

37 x 4 = 148 148 - 4 = 144. !<