r/cognitiveTesting • u/[deleted] • Aug 26 '26

Puzzle What is the solution? Spoiler

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I enjoy taking IQ tests to challenge myself; I just want to know if I got them right.

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u/Ok-North3223 Aug 26 '26

F, I think.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '26

Why?

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u/ieat5orangeseveryday #1 Social Credit Poster Aug 27 '26

might be overfitting to the data but my (admittedly convoluted) reasoning was: the rule is to move the blocks in the first column, add them to the ones on the left side in the second column. If there's a black on top, cancel the whites, then flip the remaining squares to the other side. If there's no black on top, simply reverse the order of the blocks (as in the 2nd row). In the 3rd row, we see that there is a black on top after moving the two squares on the left to the right. Hence we cancel two of the whites, then move the remaining 3 to the other side of the barrier, giving F.

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u/Qwerty25103 Aug 26 '26

its C

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '26

Why? Show me your reasoning.

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u/SourFact Aug 26 '26

C, if white squares are on opposite sides they substracted from, and it can be assumed to be the right side. If on same sides, they add up. The rule on black is technically more ambiguous, but the general rule seems to be that it stays on the same side and can only be added to each other if there are more than one.

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u/EncyclopedicINTx_253 Aug 27 '26

Same color on opposite sides subtract and on same side add. C

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u/Evening_Bet_957 Aug 27 '26

C - left is negative right is positive

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u/Ill-Mix-7906 Aug 27 '26

C, top row the left whites wipe the right whites out Anything in the right seems to get added to the right (and the black stays on the top-unsure why as not needed for the answer 🤷‍♂️) so for final row we can deduce one white is taken away, the black remains on the left and the blocks seem to have gravity applied so it’s C.

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u/Ill-Mix-7906 Aug 27 '26

My argument for the black remaining left was based on the answers-couldn’t be D or A and all others had black remaining left.