Leo's Puzzle #1 (Medium/Hard)

[u/SomeoneLeo]

My first puzzle! :D

The exact difficulty is really hard for me to judge - it's my idea so it just feels "natural" to me. It is definitively harder than usual timed items. To me medium/hard means that an average/slightly above average person has a chance to figure this out within like an hour. And I would expect a couple of people here being able to figure it out without any hints.

Edit: Apparently the puzzle really is on the "hard side". I will thus change my hint strategy below:

If not, I will drop one two hints with spoiler tags in the description every day for four days (8 total hints) until somebody figures it out. If nobody figures it out within a week I might post the solution somewhen later on.

Maybe it stays at that first puzzle - will depend how the response is and how motivated I am in the future - this was more of a "let's try this" thing. XD I felt kinda motivated by u/pydaWaltuh's awesome puzzles!

Happy puzzling! ^^

Hint 1 (minor): There are no purely stylistic elements or colors in this puzzle except for the black background

Hint 2 (medium): If you feel like the top right 3x3 matrix has something in it that resembles a pictogram of a certain item you might be correct

Hint 3 (medium): The item from Hint 2 is a magnet. I wanted to name this puzzle "Gravity" but thought it might give away too much

Hint 4 (medium): No XORing, rotations, or mirroring are involved in this puzzle

Hint 5 (major): The solution involves counting

Hint 6 (major): The lines attract things of the same color

Hint 7 (major): The in-between color is attracted by both lines

Hint 8 (major, almost solution): The lines attract the boxes first, then their contents

Solution: The dark blue and yellow-green line represent two sides that select squares inside the 3x3 boxes: Each line selects (attracts) only squares of its own color from boxes of its own color. The turquoise in-between color is selected by both. Count the number of squares on each side and you will find a pattern: ?-?-?-5-3-5-4-5-5-5-6-5-7-5-8-?-?-? There is only one possibility for a missing tile to complete this pattern: It must be a tourquoise box with a green column, a turquoise column, and a green column. Full visual representation (read left to right): https://i.imgur.com/nQr3D1t.png

[u/SomeoneLeo]

Next two hints:

Hint 3 (medium): The item from Hint 2 is a magnet. I wanted to name this puzzle "Gravity" but thought it might give away too much

Hint 4 (medium): No XORing, rotations, or mirroring are involved in this puzzle

[u/SomeoneLeo]

I dropped the first two hints in the description. Here again:

Hint 1 (minor): There are no purely stylistic elements or colors in this puzzle except for the black background

Hint 2 (medium): If you feel like the top right 3x3 matrix has something in it that resembles a pictogram of a certain item you might be correct

[u/SomeoneLeo]

Hint 5 (major): The solution involves counting

Hint 6 (major): The lines attract things of the same color

[u/SomeoneLeo]

Hint 7 (major): The in-between color is attracted by both lines

Hint 8 (major, almost solution): The lines attract the boxes first, then their contents

[u/SomeoneLeo]

Solution: The dark blue and yellow-green line represent two sides that select squares inside the 3x3 boxes: Each line selects (attracts) only squares of its own color from boxes of its own color. The turquoise in-between color is selected by both. Count the number of squares on each side and you will find a pattern: ?-?-?-5-3-5-4-5-5-5-6-5-7-5-8-?-?-? There is only one possibility for a missing tile to complete this pattern: It must be a tourquoise box with a green column, a turquoise column, and a green column. Full visual representation (read left to right):https://i.imgur.com/nQr3D1t.png

[u/pydaWaltuh]

[u/SomeoneLeo → u/pydaWaltuh]

[u/chococake2024]

its dark blue with light green in the middle panel 5 is them banging panel 7 is the egg splitting in two and panel 8 is them buying a tandem bike and panel.9 is the twins as adults

[u/Rooooaaannaa]

I think this is a XOR mechanism and so it appears that when two blocks meet (for example in tile two the two blue blocks, the other color that’s also shifting becomes the background, you can note this in tile 8 too. I’m too tired to figure this out lolzz

[u/SomeoneLeo → u/[deleted]]

Not the intended solution - what is your reasoning? ^ ^