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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the logic behind question #1? I still can't figure it out. I got #2 -- each column has a square, circle, and oval, and then you just need to look at how the 50/50 shapes are oriented to figure out which parts should black vs. white. No way my elementary school kids would have deciphered that though! [/quote]

These are pretty simple pattern puzzles that most young children should be able to solve with just a little practice.

What is making it a bit challenging to most people is that we are not accustomed to having to solve a pattern completion with 2 different variables.

For example, anyone could solve this pattern puzzle:

ABC
BCA
CA?

Or by extention this one:

boat, car, bike
car, bike, boat
bike, boat, ?

But if add onto the top of that pattern, a different variable ... maybe colors.....   your final answer will need to be the missing color as well as the missing letter or object.

red boat, green car, blue bike
blue car, red bike, green boat
green bike, blue boat, ??

The problem in the first visual exercise is simple.

Triangle, Triangle, trapezoid, ?

AABB

The solution is trapeziod -- exactly the same as the first one.

The second variable is the red square pattern.

ABAB

top left and bottom right;   bottom left and top right;   top left and bottom right;   ?

Just complete the pattern -- the final shape should have red squares bottom left and top right.

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Well this logic works if you are just looking at the top row of flags -- yes, the pattern is easy to see. But are you not supposed to consider the bottom row? I was looking for an overall pattern, and there really isn't one if you look at all the flags collectively. [/quote]

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