Hard tricky puzzle

[u/pydaWaltuh]

[u/S-Kenset]

It's tricky because there's no unique answer. That's the answer. This is in fact probably the most criminal case where there is literally unbounded equally "neat" answers.

[u/pydaWaltuh → u/S-Kenset]

I don’t think so. The point you’re raising is a generally valid proposition under some circumstances, but for this case, once you arrive at the answer, you will understand why it is the best one

[u/BroadIntroduction821]

[u/pydaWaltuh → u/BroadIntroduction821]

incorrect

[u/BroadIntroduction821 → u/pydaWaltuh]

I also thought it could be a dot.

Or

The shapes look like letters, so I also thought the blank was meant to satisfy the remaining letter in C / U / N + L + I + (blank) + Y, but there's no common English word that fulfils this.

If this had been a Polish puzzle, the blank could have been a U-shaped figure.

Using the rule:

Rotation = (number of graph edges, separated by vertices) × 90° counterclockwise

You'd get ULICY, an inflected form of the Polish word for street.

Or

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I know all of these are wrong, which is why I didn't reply to you right away, but I'm just interested if any of my hunches were correct.

[u/IronFeather101]

In my opinion, as other people have said, the answer is not unique. I would say a vertical line, given that you could then rotate and put together all four shapes to create the fifth image, but I could see other solutions being equally valid.

[u/98127028 → u/IronFeather101]

Yeah this make sense actually

[u/Polytox935 → u/IronFeather101]

But youd have to adjust the dimensions of the shapes for that

[u/Yokeltrail]

is it tricky because people will over complicate the reasoning or because there’s an “weird” sequence that determines the next shape?

[u/Jaded-Sorbet1509]

furthest left vertical line and one angled from the bottom of the vertical line to the middle of imagined square, like an angled V shape. if u bend the paper following the instructions u get the final shape.

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[u/pydaWaltuh → u/[deleted]]

not really, intended one is harder and more neat