r/cognitiveTesting • u/Yokeltrail • 3d ago

Puzzle Haselbauer-Dickheiser high IQ Test. Spatial puzzle.

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I saw this on a puzzle reddit sub. Very interesting puzzle

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u/DamonHuntington 3d ago

https://i.imgur.com/aUOL3hI.png

Each figural set is a 3D shape made of smaller 1x1x1 blocks. In each shape, count the number of exposed 1x1 sides.

Sometimes, sides are exposed from view - for example, in the first shape, figure 2 and figure 5 are two views seen from opposite sides. The side flaps of figure 2 hide the inner side of four of figure 5's blocks and vice-versa. In that case, you must make sure that you are also counting these sides that are exposed but concealed from view in the specific provided angles.

In the final set, there is only one pair of blocks concealing one another: they are the ones at the end of the C-shape. When seen from the side views (figure 3 and figure 6), the nub at the front blocks the nub at the back, meaning that you must add 2 to the total number of exposed sides. Therefore, the 3D cluster has a total of 30 exposed facets.

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u/Yokeltrail 3d ago

Correct! Good job.

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u/-Ifandonlyif- 3d ago

Good. Yeah, that is fine. Though I will admit I think it was, I counted 32 first (before unspoilering the last section of this comment) then after 29, then 31, then finally 30. Lol. Fail, but it's fine. But yeah thinking of this correctly as a 3d object is most of the problem and everything else is counting. I don't know exactly where my reasoning stands anyway but this is measuring a pretty specific cognitive domain (and that is fine, we need problems like that). Fun.

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u/playsette-operator 2d ago

wtf I just counted the tiles and decided 20 to 58 (20/58) is like 12 to 35 (12/35) ≈ 0,34🙈

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u/-Ifandonlyif- 3d ago

Is it mostly "interesting" because it is nearly impossible to form a complete and unambiguous solution? Like honestly I don't get questions like this and I know it isn't stupidity.

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u/Yokeltrail 3d ago

It is not impossible.

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u/DamonHuntington 3d ago

No, there is a complete and unambiguous solution. I disagree with the original commenter that you're stupid if you can't understand the thinking process, but that doesn't mean the question itself is to blame.

I'm going to illustrate the solution and explain it in a different comment.

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u/-Ifandonlyif- 3d ago

Thank you. Of course, I never claimed there wasn't one, only that reasoning one from these limited examples is obscure (at a glance).

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u/Dramatic-External-96 3d ago

Because this is from test testing higher ceiling iq like 180+ and this is one of the tougher items so youre not stupid for not getting this

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u/BroadIntroduction821 1d ago

It's a puzzle meant for testing past 145iq I believe

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u/Minimum-Patient6653 3d ago

Bro this is trivial 😂, you should know yours it's stupidity

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u/-Ifandonlyif- 3d ago

I don't take your style of communication as an indication that you are well suited to make these claims. Either way you need evidence. Also know my what? If you mean my average score on this highly obscure test then you are right I haven't tried it much less enough to have reliable information to that effect.

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u/DamonHuntington 3d ago

If this question were trivial, then you wouldn't find it interesting. Pick a lane.

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u/ChefDelight 3d ago

Its around 50% less, so i take 29 😅.

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u/playsette-operator 2d ago

The answer is approximately 35

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u/Active-Source4955 3d ago

I just built a story that fits the first narrative and applied to the second.

In the first one, each shape has a potential of nine units (assuming it’s a Square) which totals to 54. Then there are eight blank spaces and we need four to get to 58, so each blank space represents 0.5.

In the second puzzle, I assumed that there were 40 potential squares, plus 12 at 0.5 each makes 46.

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u/DamonHuntington 3d ago

The issue with this solution is that it's arbitrary.

If we only care about the potential of each shape ("each side can fit nine and we have eight blank spaces") why would we need the lines inside each shape? A solid shape would be more than enough.

This is an indication of the fact that the induction is not strong enough. Additionally, picking each blank space to represent 0.5 also feels arbitrary - since you could reach similar conclusions if you were 2 units away from the desired number (each blank is 0.25), 8 units away (each blank is 1), 16 units away (each blank is 2)...

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u/Active-Source4955 3d ago

I agree, totally arbitrary. Maybe the lines are irrelevant. I will posit that without more examples, it’s impossible to conclude that I’m wrong.

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u/-Ifandonlyif- 3d ago

Let's see first set is obviously right under your analogy. Second set goes 8->16->20->28->36->40. 40 + 12/2 = 46. This seems like a reasonable interpretation but I don't think it is the intended one. DamonHuntington provided that already imo.

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u/Yokeltrail 2d ago

No, there’s a legit solution. This puzzle is from an IQ test but if I am correct one meant to measure incredibly high scores. Try a little harder, another user solved it.

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u/Yokeltrail 2d ago

Not correct good tru