A Dreadful Logic Puzzle

[Mal12345]

 

[five sounds]

 

[Olm the Water King]

I think it's 2.

 

[senza tema]

Samesies!

The only thing that I thought when I saw this was "do not want."

Great minds, etc.

 

[Totenkindly]

Based on the progressions of the external lines + the progressions of the lines touching the dot, I think it's 2 as well.

 

[prplchknz]

2. it's obvious.

 

[Forever]

Wait, I see the pattern and its categories, it is 2 in fact.

 

[Cellmold]

For some reason I thought 4.

 

[Kas]

2

If I'm right the progression of the outside lines is vertical and inside ones horizontal, that's the difficulty.

 

[á´…eparted]

I think it's 2 as well. I can't see any pattern/progression (but I got frustrated and didn't look for more than a few minutes) but came to the conclusion based on the consistency of vertical lines in each of the three columns. Based off that, the fact that you can eliminate 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7 based off too many lines counted in linear and angled orientations, leaving 2, 5, and 8 as the only options, 2 is the only one that fits the linear lines (the left always has one down, the middle has one always up, the right must have both one up and one down). In essence I didn't even need to look at the angled lines except for a basic count of them.

I could be wrong though, my "logic" is rarely what it's supposed to be, even if it "works".


Edit: Ok now I see the pattern. Going across the rows, the angled lines are only preserved in the last image if they appear in the same location in the first two images. Where as, the linear lines appear if they appear by itself (if it appears in the same location in both images it dissapears). Aka: For rows, angle line duplications are preserved, linear duplications vanish. Going down columns this is inverted (angled line duplications vanish, linear duplications are preserved).

This would not be the first time I got the answer for something, had "strange and incomplete" logic, and then later on came to see the full logic/pattern. I never think in a straight line. As I like to put it "I don't think from A>B>C, I think A>Q>fish ".

 

[Cellmold]

I think it's 2 as well. I can't see any pattern/progression (but I got frustrated and didn't look for more than a few minutes) but came to the conclusion based on the consistency of vertical lines in each of the three columns. Based off that, the fact that you can eliminate 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7 based off too many lines counted in linear and angled orientations, leaving 2, 5, and 8 as the only options, 2 is the only one that fits the linear lines (the left always has one down, the middle has one always up, the right must have both one up and one down). In essence I didn't even need to look at the angled lines except for a basic count of them.

I could be wrong though, my "logic" is rarely what it's supposed to be, even if it "works".


Edit: Ok now I see the pattern. Going across the rows, the angled lines are only preserved in the last image if they appear in the same location in the first two images. Where as, the linear lines appear if they appear by itself (if it appears in the same location in both images it dissapears). Aka: For rows, angle line duplications are preserved, linear duplications vanish. Going down columns this is inverted (angled line duplications vanish, linear duplications are preserved).

This would not be the first time I got the answer for something, had "strange and incomplete" logic, and then later on came to see the full logic/pattern. I never think in a straight line. As I like to put it "I don't think from A>B>C, I think A>Q>fish ".

Ah shit, now you've said that I see what you mean.

2 it is. I'm terribadshithorrible at these. But patterns aren't my game.

 

[Kas]

Edit: Ok now I see the pattern. Going across the rows, the angled lines are only preserved in the last image if they appear in the same location in the first two images. Where as, the linear lines appear if they appear by itself (if it appears in the same location in both images it dissapears). Aka: For rows, angle line duplications are preserved, linear duplications vanish. Going down columns this is inverted (angled line duplications vanish, linear duplications are preserved).

Funny how differently we solve things. I noticed the same one pattern ( as vanishing duplications) just in two directions. Outside lines (angled) vertically and ones that are inside ( horizontally) so I got the result, but I haven't seen both pattern as disappearing one types of duplicated lines and preserving the other type in colums/rows.

 

[Bush]

This would not be the first time I got the answer for something, had "strange and incomplete" logic, and then later on came to see the full logic/pattern.

Same. Happens to me all. The. Time.

Mentally noted 2 at first. It didn't feel like a stab in the dark or a random guess, but it didn't feel like a complete answer, either. I compulsively check my own work, and so I searched for a solid rationale.

I tried all sorts of shit mentally. "Okay, we've got 8 potential lines; do they toggle back and forth as we proceed across rows and columns or something? Do some toggle while others don't? Are all of the rows independent, or are we also concerned about all 9 figures at once?" I don't know if I traced it down to complete step-by-step logic, but I did come up with multiple 'clues' that corroborated 2. Decided that was "good enough" and decided on 2.

I did some digging (well, reverse Google Image search) and found..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices
http://www.rooshvforum.com/thread-25934.html
http://www.jperla.com/blog/post/how-to-ace-an-iq-test

I've come across similar 3x3 puzzles, of course, but I had no idea that there was a name for them.

 

[chubber]

3 but then I think it is 6. I'm sticking with 6. I'm wrong anyway for first picking 3.

 

[five sounds]

Samesies!

The only thing that I thought when I saw this was "do not want."

Great minds, etc.

Haha, yes!

I used to feel bad or stupid for being disinterested in that kind of thing, but I embrace it now. Maybe if it were attempting to solve a real problem.../tert Te

 

[Ghost of the dead horse]

2.
Any piece of the outern pattern is expressed exactly 2 or 0 times when counted vertically, and exactly 1 or 3 times when counted horizontally.
Any piece of the inner pattern is expressed exactly 2 or 0 times when counted horizontally, and exactly 1 or 3 times when counter vertically.

Assuming these rules hold globablly, the only possible figure that satisfies these constraints is number 2.

 

[ChocolateMoose123]

2

I just looked at the direction of the center line. The third column is the only one that had lines north and south from the center dot. The rest of the columns go all south or all north.

 

[Mal12345]

Does anybody want me to post another one like that?

 

[chubber]

Does anybody want me to post another one like that?

With the answer

 

[OrderOfTheCaelifera]

I thought that there were 2 likely answers based upon the 3 most obvious patterns that result from overlaying the two previous symbols.

The right vertical column would lead me to speculate #2 would be the next symbol in the sequence.
The bottom row would lead me to speculate that #2 ought to be the next symbol in the sequence.
However the diagonal pattern from top left corner to the bottom right corner, caused me to consider that #6 ought to be the next symbol within the sequence.

Overlaying the top center symbol upon the left symbol of the center row might also suggest #6, but that's a minor pattern that doesn't terminate in an unknown symbol,

Going with the odds, it's more logical to conclude (2:1 probability) that #2 is more likely the next symbol in the sequence.