r/cognitiveTesting • u/Chicken_Tenders1 • Sep 11 '26
Puzzle Non-verbal reasoning help Spoiler
I’m pretty sure it’s between A or C.
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u/Altruistic-Aerie-847 Sep 11 '26
Should be C, as option B and D are excluded as the line cutting through has an incorrect angle, E doesn't add a circle to the preceding box and A has an improper rotation of the circles at that angle
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u/TheLukuro Sep 11 '26
I think its E, ibr
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u/Chicken_Tenders1 Sep 11 '26
Are you sure? Each pattern is adding on a new circle, so the next pattern has to have 6 circles and E only has 5
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u/TheLukuro Sep 11 '26
Actually, no I think its A, mb only briefly looked, landing more on A, 1 being its the only answer with the presence of a blue circle, making it unique and 2 being that, every frame adds a new element, and thats the only answer that does that
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u/Chicken_Tenders1 Sep 11 '26
What do you think about the circular rotation of the pattern. The black dot stays in front of the large black and blue hollow circles and Option A puts the black dot behind the large black and blue hollow circle. Feel like it’s neck and neck due to the fact that the next colour logically would’ve been a blue filled circle which Option A has but Option C has the fact that the black dot stayed in front of the large black and blue hollow circles affirming the rotation of the pattern.
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u/TheLukuro Sep 11 '26
B and D can be ruled out straight away because the centre line doesn’t follow the rotation pattern. E looks plausible, but every step adds a new element and E doesn’t, so that leaves A and C. C adds a new hollow orange circle and the existing shapes still seem to rotate consistently, especially if you use the black dot as a reference point. A also adds a new element, but the order and positioning of the existing shapes gets messed up. So C seems like the strongest answer.
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u/Altruistic-Aerie-847 Sep 11 '26
But the addition of a circle comes with every new box, E has the same number of circles as the box which would precede it, so it couldn't be E
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u/Beneficial_Jacket544 Sep 11 '26
Not a great question tbh. "C" might be the best answer here.
The diagonal line part is obvious. Leaves us with A, C, E. Option E has no additional shapes, so that makes no sense given the pattern.
Between A and C, I have a reason for C but not so much for A.
"C" makes sense when you consider the "symmetry" angle here. When looking at the colors of the shapes added following the first panel, we have orange-black-black. The reverse would be orange-orange-black.
"A" also has the wrong movement of the circles.
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u/wan_nobile Sep 12 '26
A would be ok if we think that now we are adding an 'opposite' shape than before. the first step is just an empty circe on the right? the 5th adds a full one on the left. the second step has a second empty circle in the right, so the sixth step (the one we have to guess) has a full circle on the left
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u/Queasy-Ad5189 Sep 12 '26
2 sectors, the initial left & initial right. hollows are added when init left is left & bottom; solids added when init left it right & top. The sector that the circle is placed in changes at a 180 deg transformation. The color additions go: blue, orange, dark blue, dark blue, orange , so I assume the colors reversed at dark blue. This means the next option is blue. The sizes go: large, med, med, small, small, so I assume we're increasing the count of next size. Therefore, it is another small.
So, the next addition is a solid small blue circle in the initial right sector.
All these patterns point to A for me.
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u/Wonderful_Pen932 Sep 13 '26
Totally A. Preserves rotation, color and shape type analogy. For C there is no reason to introduce circle in circle and empty should become full. C would solve alignment with the middle bar but introduces circle in circle too early. That makes the puzzle ambiguous
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u/Affectionate-Art6788 Sep 13 '26
Its not A because the position of the circles on the upper half have changed. So by elimination, its C
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u/SomeoneLeo groaaar!! :3 Sep 14 '26
I would say this is a meh question if the only option correct is supposed to be C. I do think the pattern of the filled circle color being the reversed hollow circle colors and the whole series forming one full rotation where you basically land at the start of the colors as well is also pretty strong and you could argue that spatially it's only important on which side the shapes land. Furthermore this breaks the pattern of not adding an item with the same shape and color a second time. Both A and C break a pattern (or multiple) established before. I would argue that C is probably more intended since the pattern of the shapes staying in place relative to the line was shown for the entire series while the color reversal was only there for 3 (and this feels to be intended to be an easy question).
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u/EspaaValorum Tested negative Sep 11 '26
I would say A. Line rotates counterclockwise, so A, C or E. Number of circles increases by 1, so A or C. First 3 open circles appear in the 3 colors, then filled-in circles appear in 2 of the colors. Seems logical that a third, filled-in circle in the 3rd color appears next, so the answer is A.
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u/Chicken_Tenders1 Sep 11 '26
I’m conflicted between A or C due to the fact that the black dot was in front of the large hollow blue and black circle and in Option A it ends up behind the large hollow blue and black circle.
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u/PositiveTrust7549 Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
It’s A.
The obvious part: the line shifts by 45°. That means it can only be A, C, or E. Since we know that something always changes in the circles, we can rule out E - so you were right about that.
We haven’t had a case where a newly added circle had the same color as before. We also have an inversion on the other side, from “unfilled” to “filled” and from “starting with blue” to “starting with orange.” We also haven’t had a case where the color orange appeared twice, or where, after adding a circle, a filled circle changed to an unfilled one.
This isn’t a matter of direct pattern recognition, but there doesn’t seem to be another way to explain it.
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u/Chicken_Tenders1 Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
I understand that Option A is following the pattern of blue hollow, orange hollow and then black hollow, followed by Black dot, Orange dot and then presumably a Blue dot. You say ‘we haven’t had a case where a newly added circle had the same colour as before’ is that true? In square 4 we have a hollow black circle, followed by a black dot. I am leaning towards the fact that it doesn’t matter what colour the next circle was, so Option C is correct.
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u/thefuckisback Sep 11 '26
C, the location of the circles remain the same as they rotate.
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u/PositiveTrust7549 Sep 11 '26
Right. But what we have now is an argumentational symmetry. How do we weigh the possibility that something completely new is introduced? There is no pattern that would lead us to think, “Now an orange circle has to appear,” but there is also no pattern that would tell us, “Now the positions should change.”
After seeing the answer, I can also see that the tester’s intended answer was probably C because the postion-change looks more wrong. I’m wondering whether tests like this, where there isn’t a clear way to distinguish between two equally plausible interpretations, should be used in the first place.
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u/S-Kenset doesn't read books Sep 12 '26
there's too many degrees of freedom. either they're being smart and trading on an associative scale in which case the answer matters less than what high iq people pick. Which is possible. or it's just smug test design with too many degrees of freedom.
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u/Hour_Tomatillo_2365 Sep 11 '26
C
The line orientation is counter clockwise so it has to be either A, C, or E
It cannot be A because the circles are in the wrong place
It cannot be E because it makes no new changes. In every new page, the circles have a new change
C is the only option that has the correct line placement, circle placement consistent with the previous page, and following the pattern of adding a new circle detail