Thread: Fluid Thinking

It's a credible book lol. respected psychological textbook.

if you're dealing with a "wrap-around" number system that makes sense...

123456123456123456...

456 345 234 561 //sorta

but it does seem that the last grouping should be 123 in that case

but it's not, so that's not it. Tell me when you all give up hehe.

I give up..

The flaw of most pattern recognition tests is that they forget to remove (or consider) all other possible patterns. I see this sort of problem with many DIY IQ tests.

SOLUTION: (only read if you've given up)

This is the solution I came up with:

The magic number is 6. When ever you have a 6 the counting restarts. There is no fancy plus minus etc math in it. The restart number (marked in green) is regressing by one each time:

4 5 6 | 3 4 5 | 2 3 4 5 6 | 1 |

Here's the catch. It doesn't just reset when there's a digit 6. Also once you've had 6 numbers (Whenever there's a 6 ), I've marked those spots with red markers. Whenever there's a normal 6 I've marked in blue and it restarts.

Does this make sense? Does anyone else see a diffrent pattern?

sorry, I think that's a stretch kermit

Hey it works! Don't knock it hehe. Find a better pattren if you can .

ya, but you had to throw in a "catch" to make it work. That's not very much of a pattern.

There's no catch there. Whenever there's a 6 it restarts! And don't pick on my choice of words!

I see an even better argument for 3 now

look at this

Code:

4 5 6 3 4 5 2 3 4 5 6 3
4   6   4   2   4   6
  5   3   5   3   5   3

the answer "1" would make sense if there were one more '6' in your pattern:

Code:

4563456234561

ive seen IQ books with misprints in them... its possible...

I saw both those solutions, if there was the extra 6 and the 5 3 pattern. But we've checked 3 verisions of the book. It's possible it's a misprint but I doubt it.