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Mensa IQ app: four boxes with four numbers each
I hate this kind of puzzles, since the solution always feels kind of arbitrary to me. Just for the sake of it I suggest an alternative solution:
Reason:
Now that I think about it, using the same ...
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Find the last number in the pattern
A web search turns up https://dokumen.tips/documents/exemple-de-probleme-pentru-testul-de-competente-de-gandire-.html?page=1 and http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/wp-content/uploads/Subiect-test-admitere-...
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A colorful Connect Wall you can almost taste
The first thing to note ...
The four groups:
Sorting it out:
The missing word:
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What is a Dual Word?
Although MetaZen has identified a relevant pattern, what's missing is that
In particular
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What is 12 in this same pattern?
Partial answer.
Googling OEIS plus some of the numbers, I found
which led me to:
so we're looking for values A, B, C such that
and apparently
Running this through a spreadsheet gives the following ...
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Solve the last equation
we can notice a broad pattern altering between adding 0 and 4.
4+5=? applying the same logic we should be getting this answer.
(5~4) swap places 4+4=8. [58]
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What is a Hot & Cold Word™?
Okay, I've been thinking about this one for a while, and I have something that I believe works for at least 7/8 words (I can't pin down the other) and the timing of the initial puzzle - something that ...
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