Fun Puzzel

[Dr. Zaus]

HI,

I enjoyed playing this puzzel: http://psych.io/spatial/

It is an attempt to create a spacial-reasoning puzzle; measuring what is often left out of our standardized tests but also highly correlated with scientific creativity:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/us/study-finds-early-signs-of-creativity-in-adults.html?_r=0

(SAT predicts 10% of variance in patents filed, while spacial reasoning predicts an addition 7%)

I guess it's best if you only take it once, so as not to throw off the data collection.

So what was your score? Were any of the puzzles BS?

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

8. I think I got number 6 wrong. For some reason I had a lot more trouble with that than any of the others.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

8. I think I got number 6 wrong. For some reason I had a lot more trouble with that than any of the others.

I'm in the same boat; i'm not sure what I got wrong as they both seemed to fold correctly in my head.

 

[yhelothar]

I got 8/9 also.

Only 4 seemed all the same to me. For 6, I tried making one of the squares the base, and looked at the four that folded away from it that had two arrows pointing in the same direction in one of the four, and then pointing to the square. All of the arrows go clockwise except in A, which goes CCW.

EDIT: Yup it was 4, I just tried changing the answer for it and I got 9/9. I don't get 4. I made the circle the base, and all 4 of them have the triangle, plus, arrow, heart going in CW, and the square facing the circle?

 

[Dr. Zaus]

I got 8/9 also.

Only 4 seemed all the same to me. For 6, I tried making one of the squares the base, and looked at the four that folded away from it that had two arrows pointing in the same direction in one of the four, and then pointing to the square. All of the arrows go clockwise except in A, which goes CCW.

EDIT: Yup it was 4, I just tried changing the answer for it and I got 9/9. I don't get 4. I made the circle the base, and all 4 of them have the triangle, plus, arrow, heart going in CW, and the square facing the circle?

arrow up on heart in all but c :awe:

 

[yhelothar]

Oh I see it now... I was checking for the orientation as well... looks like I missed that one.

 

[Agent11]

Not that hard once you get the hang of it.

 

[gorobei]

9 of 9
its easier if you mentally cut off a side and paste it on a long strip with the relevant symbol sequence.

 

[alkemyst]

I think like on line IQ tests people just keep doing this until they get 100%. Also there are no rules given. Thus it should be easy to just draw and fold these up physically.

I am going to try to solve it without paper.

 

[alkemyst]

done with 6 out of 9

 

[nanette1985]

Nope, not fun. Since my most recent stroke I've done a lot of this type of thing in rehab.

Once you do a bunch of them you kind of get into a rhythm and they become fairly easy. But easy /= fun.

 

[Drako]

Dang it . 8/9 - too bad they don't tell you what you missed.

 

[Craig234]

I'll just say I got more correct than random chance. Was that 9/9? Who knows?

 

[Rakehellion]

9. It really wasn't that hard, as the poll results dictate.

 

[TuxDave]

8? dammit

 

[dighn]

9. just gotta do it methodically, checking for sequences and orientations. this reminds me of stereochemistry in organic chem.

 

[PowerEngineer]

8. I think I got number 6 wrong. For some reason I had a lot more trouble with that than any of the others.

Me too. :|

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Me too. :|

I think there's something wrong with number 6. The number of folks that otherwise got everything else right implies that random-chance is the explanation for the others that got all 9 right.

 

[phucheneh]

Like six were easy, and three made me think hard enough to be aggravating. Unsurprisingly, I got 6/9.

This kind of problem-solving is mildly intriguing. I'm good with abstract logic. Bad with concrete calculation. This seems to sit somewhere in the middle.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

9. just gotta do it methodically, checking for sequences and orientations. this reminds me of stereochemistry in organic chem.

Yeah, organic chem helped me a lot.

I think there's something wrong with number 6. The number of folks that otherwise got everything else right implies that random-chance is the explanation for the others that got all 9 right.

There's nothing wrong with it per se, if you make cubes it actually is

Spoiler

A

that is different.

What's wrong is our spatial awareness. Seems we're all retards.

 

[gorobei]

#6 only seems odd because the relevant band of sides(up arrow, up arrow, circle, square) is the same on all 4 options and there are no visually discrete directionals(arrows, hearts, etc).

the only variance is in the 2 sides not in the band. you have mentally isolate the band going around, then check the remaining 2 sides for their relationship to the band.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Yeah, organic chem helped me a lot.



There's nothing wrong with it per se, if you make cubes it actually is

Spoiler

A

that is different.

What's wrong is our spatial awareness. Seems we're all retards.

/agree

the only variance is in the 2 sides not in the band. you have mentally isolate the band going around, then check the remaining 2 sides for their relationship to the band.

got it.

 

[dank69]

8. Went for speed. No idea which one I missed.

 

[ZaneNBK]

9 of 9
its easier if you mentally cut off a side and paste it on a long strip with the relevant symbol sequence.

9/9 here as well and this is basically what I did. Rotating squares/strips around the layout to match them up on harder ones, on easier ones I looked for unique patterns and then just spotted the difference, which was usually just a rotated image compared to the others.

 

[ZaneNBK]

I think like on line IQ tests people just keep doing this until they get 100%. Also there are no rules given. Thus it should be easy to just draw and fold these up physically.

I am going to try to solve it without paper.

Except that the instructions say explicitly "Imagine each of the shapes being folded up into a cube." which precludes the use of writing or printing them out and folding them. Taking the test repeatedly, should also obviously be considered "cheating".