basic intelligence test I was given in year 3 a few decades ago...anyone want to see if they can crack it?

A 8 year old is not an abstract thinker and sees the image as a flat 2D image of the surface of a wall with five bricks. Easy to solve.

The adult mind is an abstract and 3D thinker and extrapolates the image into a diagram of five rooms, each with four walls. Impossible to solve.

Gay thread

Do it without poking a hole in the paper.

Getting warm.

But not quite.

As adults we tend to over think things.

We complicare what is simple.

We look for hidden meanings where there are none.

There are no hidden meanings in this test.

Take it from there.

Isn't "bisecting" a rectangle just creating a line that creates two equal parts?

It's already been solved.

You are now just being one of those jerk "educator" types who insist everything must be solved their way or the high way. No freedom of thought allowed in school. Like those common core math morons.

This is why I always argue that IQ tests and similar tests do not test intelligence, but conformity. This is why John Nash ditched class on purpose because he didn't want professors putting his mind within boundaries.

Last Edited by Weyoun on 05/27/2017 05:22 AM

idk the formula, it's gibberish

4/3?
Seems unnecessarily complicated.
Can you draw a continuous line like that through a square with just one line dividing it into two sections?
or any shape divided by a line?

besides a circle

reminds me of the map paradox.
let me look that up.
about the number of colors required to make a map.... four, I believe.

not possible to make a map requiring more than four colors so each state requires a different color.

See solution below:































POTATO

Here you go!

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If you can only enter each segment once but each has four walls it's impossible

Did you already know about this puzzle or did you try it a few times before you gave up and looked it up?

My uncle was a grand chess master and tried for 20 years to solve it.

They gave it to him at school when he was in year three.

He showed it to me when I was a small boy.

We didnt have wiki back then...we had to work shit out for ourselves.

I had it solved in one hour.

Decades late I show my youngest daughter and she didnt even put pen to paper...she just looked at it for about a minute and gave me the answer which was..

It cannot be done.

I told my uncle about this...he flipped.

My daughter was 8 at the time.

Thats why its an intelligence test...the more intelligent you are the faster you work it out.

Being a great chess player like my uncle does not denote actual intelligence.

It just means you love chess a lot.

i was wrong, too, lazy,
people are also liars
and psychics is a scourge to mankind
if they spent as much time being human as they do playing with their little balls of shit, quoting eachother and spoting questions to answers that just occur to them like magic, the World wouldn't be in the mess it is.

They don't have the logic behind their fancy guesswork, only a bunch of possessed puppets diong others bidding.

So long Suckers.

I already knew about it, as I am an armchair mathematician.

Not to derail the thread, but if you are not familiar with Islam's penchant for the number 19, you are missing out.

Whoever drew that was not bright enough to spell through correctly even once or use a spell checker

OP: "THERE IS a simple solution."
Also OP: "There is no solution."


Dumbass.

The wimple solution was...

There IS no solution.

Pretty simple eh?

Dumbass.

Bloody touch pads.