Fun Game for You: a little thought experiment

[howandwhy99]

I've been talking about interactive pattern finding games of late, so I thought I would do a little experiment with the non-interactive ones. Questions like those below used to show up on IQ tests for a long time as they predicted general intelligence ("g") more accurately than any other format of testing.

I won't be posting answers for these questions. All I ask is you DO NOT LOOK AT OTHERS' ANSWERS BEFORE TRYING YOURSELF.


Directions: fill in the blank

1. A B A A B B A B A A __

2. 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 __

3. dog cat chicken cow dog cat __

4. 9 3 27 9 81 27 243 __

5. puppy dog kitten cat lamb sheep calf __

6. 121 434 565 878 9109 __

7. Andrew Beth Carl Denise Erik Fanny George __

8. 100 25 1 400 225 100 900 625 __

9. bark bark bark bark bark bark __

10. 1 9 7 3 20 180 178 172 __

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

OK, I'll bite and see if I'm as dumb as I look...

[sblock] 1. B
2. 23
3. chicken
4. 2187
5. cow
6. 111211
7. Hannah
8. 400 (this one took me a bit of time to get)
9. bark
10. 550 (not sure at all on this one) [/sblock]

 

[Vorput]

[sblock]
1. B
2. 23
3. Chicken
4. 81
5. Cow
6. 121112
7. Henry
8. ???
9. bark
10. ???
[/sblock]

That was fun!

 

[Pbartender]

[sblock]

1. B
2. 23
3. chicken
4. 81
5. cow
6. 121112
7. Harriet (or any other girl's name beginning with "H")
8. 10000
9. bark
10. 550

[/sblock]

 

[dogoftheunderworld]

[sblock]
1. B
2. 23
3.chicken
4. 9
5. cow (or elephant )
6. 111211
7. Holly
8. 10,000
9. bark
10. 400
[/sblock]

 

[megamania]

I won't be posting answers for these questions. All I ask is you DO NOT LOOK AT OTHERS' ANSWERS BEFORE TRYING YOURSELF.


Directions: fill in the blank __

I usually suck at these (unless 3-D visuals are required)....

1. A B A A B B A B A A __ B B

2. 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 __ 23

3. dog cat chicken cow dog cat __ chicken

4. 9 3 27 9 81 27 243 __ 81

5. puppy dog kitten cat lamb sheep calf __ cow

6. 121 434 565 878 9109 __ no clue

7. Andrew Beth Carl Denise Erik Fanny George __ Henry
8. 100 25 1 400 225 100 900 625 __ my brain hurts

9. bark bark bark bark bark bark __ bark

10. 1 9 7 3 20 180 178 172 __ 810

Submit and see if my IQ is above.... 90... I hope....

 

[megamania]

eh

Generally I seemed okay. Missed how far to go with the names.


correct answers are.....?

 

[Pbartender]

I usually suck at these (unless 3-D visuals are required)....



Submit and see if my IQ is above.... 90... I hope....

Psst... You're supposed to hide your answers, so no one else can see them.

 

[OakwoodDM]

[sblock]1. BB
2. 23
3. chicken
4. 81
5. cow
6. 121112
7. Harry
8. 400 I think, although it may be 40000
9. bark, although I'm tempted to say "shut up you infernal beast" because it can't be that easy
10. Not a clue, and I'm fairly good at numbers normally[/sblock]

I think I did Ok, but that last one is utterly baffling.

 

[RangerWickett]

[sblock]
1. B
2. 23
3. Chicken
4. 81. Pattern is divide by 3, multiply by 9, divide by 3, multiply by 9. . . .
5. Cow
6. 121112. The pattern is just do "odd number, even number, odd number" and squish them together. Then do the next set of "even, odd, even." Then go back to "odd, even, odd."
7. Helga. The pattern is alphabetical, switching between genders.
8. 400, or possibly 361. The pattern I saw was:

(100 25 1 400 225 100 900 625)
10 squared, 5 squared, 1 squared. 20 squared, 15 squared, 10 squared. 30 squared, 25 squared . . .

Now, either the pattern is "find the square of a number, then that number minus 5, then that number minus 10, then start over by adding 10 to the initial number" and the first set should have had 0 instead of 1; or it's something more complicated like "Each set goes x, x-5, x-8-y where y is the number of this set. Then you start the next set and increase x by 10."

In the former the final number would be 400 (20 squared). In the latter it would be 361 (19 squared). Maybe I missed a more obvious pattern.

9. bark
10. 189 is guess one.

1 9 7 3 20 180 178 172.

It looks like 'multiply by 9, minus 2, minus 4, plus 17; multiply by 9, minus 2, minus 6' . . . so do we go plus 17?

Or it could be . . . well, 1+9+7+3 = 20, but that doesn't pan out in any other way. I dunno. I'm not seeing anything.
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