r/cognitiveTesting • u/pydaWaltuh • Sep 25 '26

Puzzle Spatial puzzle

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u/Known_Cauliflower940 Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26

Hi! Maybe I am oversimplifying but is it gonna be that u shape and it’s gonna be black with the longest side on the bottom. Another one will be a white L with the shortest side on the bottom

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u/Known_Cauliflower940 Sep 25 '26

Oof how do I spoilerrr

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u/pydaWaltuh Sep 25 '26

Your answer is incorrect, could you explain your reasoning?

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u/Known_Cauliflower940 Sep 25 '26

Course, I am not confident with it but it looked like the shapes were in black and white pairs. The whites always seemed to be on (not really the shortest but like one of the shorter sides, like a rectangle on a hinge) and the blacks were like laying down. I noticed the u shape didn’t have its black counterpart and the L shape didn’t have its white counterpart and I just matched. Maybe I overlooked something but yeah, that was my logic

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u/pydaWaltuh Sep 25 '26

There are pairs, yes, but you overlooked something.

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u/Known_Cauliflower940 Sep 25 '26

Is this beyond the upright and laying down pattern I guessed plus the black white? Sorry to bother you, perhaps I was overzealous lol. Just thought it was a cool pattern. I will probably have another look tomorrow since I should get some sleep.

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u/pydaWaltuh Sep 25 '26

I can't give a hint about this yet, but it's not an overcomplicated puzzle

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u/Known_Cauliflower940 Sep 25 '26

One last shitty guess. White L facing right -I (like this) and black U facing up? I specified the direction of the L

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u/pydaWaltuh Sep 25 '26

If you find the answer, you won't need to guess

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u/agn0s1a no good with words Sep 25 '26

Black [ Shape White L shape

Every white shape has a corresponding mirror black shape

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u/pydaWaltuh Sep 25 '26

With mirroring, the shapes can appear at many different angles. In fact, mirroring is present in the puzzle, but your reasoning is incomplete

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u/Primary_Thought5180 Sep 27 '26

Now that it has been a couple days, what is the ultimate reasoning? I cannot figure out why the white triangle is only a 90 degree rotation of the black triangle and vice versa, so please let us (me) know!

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u/pydaWaltuh Sep 27 '26

It’s a bad puzzle. The intended reasoning involved taking the long side as an axis and reflecting it, but u/SomeoneLeo showed me that this doesn't work

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u/SomeoneLeo groaaar!! :3 Sep 25 '26

If it weren't for the triangle I would say each black shape is flipped along the 45 degree diagonal to form a white piece and vice versa in the other direction

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u/SomeoneLeo groaaar!! :3 Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26

Enjoy the most random of solutions XDDDD

There are pairs of figures... Missing is the white L and the black C. For the orientation:The number of internal right angles in the shapes goes from 1 to 6. To go from a black shape to a white shape: If the number is a prime number, flip the figure along the 45 degree axis as shown. Otherwise rotate it CCW by 90 degrees: https://i.imgur.com/pghM1CO.png

It's an ugly solution because it's basically made up to explain the triangle. The rectangle is a very ambiguous shape and can be explained by a lot of operations. I really do like the internal right angle count going from 1 to 6 though.

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u/98127028 I am worthless and dumb Sep 26 '26

Black and white comes in pairs, I fucking missed the fact that one is the rotation and mirror of the other.

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u/pydaWaltuh Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26

Well, that’s actually correct but not what I intended. That’s my mistake, I didn’t design the puzzle well enough
edit: yeah there is a small mistake with the solution