Participant 1

Initial description: Same pattern in the right, the rest stays the same.

Final description: The pattern in the top right corner stayed the same. Any pattern within the smaller squares the matched the top right corner should share that color while their other blue blocks stayed the same.


Attempt 1: Incorrect
Attempt 2: Correct

Participant 2

Initial description: Match the pattern in the larger box for any small box that had all the boxes of the highlighted shape blue.

Final description: Match the pattern in the larger box for any small box that had all the boxes of the highlighted shape blue.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 3

Initial description: Seems to be a use of the first example to the left.

Final description: Following the pattern examples, copying the larger box with orange and black and then reducing it in half (e.g. one square for two, three for six) in the copied area where the main box is transformed into a smaller piece.


Attempt 1: Incorrect
Attempt 2: Incorrect
Attempt 3: Incorrect

Participant 4

Initial description: Create the same shape from the large square in the lower right and upper left squares touching the larger square.

Final description: For the orange shape in the large square, add this shape in orange to any squares that it will fit within the blue squares.


Attempt 1: Incorrect
Attempt 2: Incorrect
Attempt 3: Correct

Participant 5

Initial description: Using the large image, any smaller square that has ALL of those positions filled by a color, change those squares the larger images color.

Final description: Using the large image, any smaller square that has ALL of those positions filled by a color, change those squares the larger images color.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 6

Initial description: I looked for squares that were blue with the same design as the orange configuration and made them orange.

Final description: I looked for squares that were blue with the same design as the orange configuration and made them orange.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 7

Initial description: Change the color of squares that repeat the large pattern.

Final description: Change the color of squares that repeat the large pattern.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 8

Initial description: Observe the pattern of the one big black box, and for each small black box that is or is a subset of that pattern, duplicate that pattern onto the small box.

Final description: Observe the pattern of the one big black box, and for each small black box that is or is a subset of that pattern, duplicate that pattern onto the small box.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 9

Initial description: Change the squares across to green.

Final description: Transform any three dots that connect across the a green color.


Attempt 1: Incorrect
Attempt 2: Incorrect
Attempt 3: Incorrect

Participant 10

Initial description: In any cell with black squares that match the pattern in the large box repeat that pattern.

Final description: In cells with black squares that can accomodate the pattern in the large box replicate that pattern.


Attempt 1: Incorrect
Attempt 2: Incorrect
Attempt 3: Incorrect