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Community => The Rumpus Room => Topic started by: KyriakosCH on Tue 18/05/2021 09:34:50

Title: The pattern game
Post by: KyriakosCH on Tue 18/05/2021 09:34:50
Maybe we can have a pattern-based quiz?

In the following, you have to find why the pictures on the left are a different group from those in the right.

(https://i.imgur.com/0EBnlIN.png)

The above is from a relatively famous book. The common trait in all the patterns in that book is that they are actually very easy to see, but problems can arise due to not instantly knowing which information is relevant.

Title: Re: The pattern game
Post by: Danvzare on Tue 18/05/2021 14:48:58
Oh that's easy. The pictures on the left are different from the pictures on the right, because they're not the same pictures.  :-D
The pattern is that they all use simple shapes.
Now give me a hard one!  :-D

(Is it the answer you're looking for? Of course not. Is it a correct answer? Most definitely.  (laugh))
Title: Re: The pattern game
Post by: Mandle on Tue 18/05/2021 14:55:52
Took me a few minutes but I think I have it solved:

Spoiler
In the left-hand group two black squares of the same size exist in the same set. In the right-hand group they do not.
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Title: Re: The pattern game
Post by: KyriakosCH on Wed 19/05/2021 11:14:24
^_^

Thank you both for playing! Mandle is (more) correct.
It is problem 58, from Bongard's patterns book: https://www.foundalis.com/res/bps/bongard/p058.htm

Mandle, you can post a new pattern quiz if you feel like it. Or if you don't, someone else can.
Title: Re: The pattern game
Post by: Mandle on Wed 19/05/2021 13:37:00
Here's a better wording of the initial question that makes easy answers like "They are all different." or "The line down the middle divides them" or whatever:

"What is the logical rule that distinguishes the sets of shapes on the left from the sets of shapes on the right? The rule means that no set of shapes from the left side can be on the right side, or vice versa."
Title: Re: The pattern game
Post by: KyriakosCH on Mon 24/05/2021 16:26:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjR4cWR3I58

This is very simple, but I agree with the uploader that it was nicely phrased.
Title: Re: The pattern game
Post by: KyriakosCH on Mon 24/05/2021 17:02:26
Ok, same question. By which logic do the six arrangements on the left differ from those in the right?

(https://i.imgur.com/bk3Y18k.png)
Title: Re: The pattern game
Post by: KyriakosCH on Mon 24/05/2021 20:20:35
Any guesses? This is (once again) a conjunction (in the first quiz it was black^same size ≠ black^different size), although with three parts instead of two.
It would be nice if this doesn't die immediately, but I tried  :=