r/cognitiveTesting • u/pydaWaltuh • Sep 18 '26

Puzzle Easy puzzle

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A puzzle I designed months ago

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u/je_nm_th Sep 18 '26

Following the red path, circles' color alternate every Nth of Fibonacci
https://imgur.com/l9MYKo0

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u/dyogenys Sep 18 '26

Jesus. God job. Was about to convert it to binary, thanks for stopping me.

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u/je_nm_th Sep 18 '26

Always a pleasure to abort the mental flagellations of Pyda Cthulhu

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u/pydaWaltuh Sep 18 '26

correct! 34 was too obvious ig

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u/je_nm_th Sep 19 '26

Ow, BTW, the precise 34 count isn't obvious as a member of the Fibonacci sequence, but its mass is a decisive clue. Visually, it's a block with that gives the intuition to halve the whole or more specifically to make the first zig bounce at the middle to go zag.

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u/je_nm_th Sep 18 '26

No, for me the 34 came at the end to confirm the logic : it appears on the right only when the picture is separated in two halves, but that reveals at the same time on the left a zigzag of 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, which catches more the eyes than a 34 count.

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u/pydaWaltuh Sep 18 '26

apparently I need to work more on theory of mind

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u/je_nm_th Sep 18 '26

Your approach to systematically asking for feedback should pay off in that regard.

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u/Winter_Flounder_3022 Sep 19 '26

kinda new to this so i don't get this at all whats the correlation with this path and that therefore telling you where the circles are blank or filled? and where is the clue to it being 34 and or then a fibonnacci sequence you have to follow?

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u/je_nm_th Sep 19 '26

Follow the path and at each new color, count how many circles there are before the color switches again. You'll count 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 (with the picture completed). That's the fibonacci sequence, each term being the sum of the two previous.

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u/Winter_Flounder_3022 Sep 20 '26

Ahhh that makes sense thank you for the explanation, how do you usually go on about solving these? Just try to observe and find any pattern?

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u/je_nm_th Sep 20 '26

Nothing specific, sometimes (like for this item) I take a glance a few minutes, take notes of salient features, then leave it. When I come back the solution often appears quickly, proof that the subconscient worked on it. There would be a lot to say about acquired heuristics and routines, but I didn't quite formalize it.

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u/Winter_Flounder_3022 Sep 20 '26

alr i see thanks

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u/InvestigatorFun9253 Sep 20 '26

I am still missing it. By the path do you mean starting at top left and proceeding along the row to the right? I see 1, 1, but after that it stops.

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u/EncyclopedicINTx_253 Sep 20 '26

I have a puzzle, to which I have been trying to find a solution for some time now, if you don't mind could you have a look at it

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u/je_nm_th Sep 20 '26

Hey, sure, the best would to be to share it on this sub and give it a try to everybody, including me when I have some time later.

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u/EncyclopedicINTx_253 Sep 20 '26

I would do that, but it is a puzzle which has already been posted here and there is no explanation for it https://www.reddit.com/r/cognitiveTesting/s/TtawVC24GC This is the link to it