Participant 1

Initial description: Find any square-shaped black square groupings (any grid size) and transform those square-shaped areas to blue while retaining the original pattern outside of those square-shaped areas.

Final description: Find any square-shaped black square groupings (any grid size) and transform those square-shaped areas to blue while retaining the original pattern outside of those square-shaped areas.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 2

Initial description: to build the three blue squares

Final description: tomake the four blue squares


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

Participant 3

Initial description: All the black spaces that form a square are filled in with the teal color

Final description: All the black spaces that form a square are filled in with the teal color


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 4

Initial description: Put blue in even numbered squares.

Final description: Put blue in even numbered squares.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 5

Initial description: I am totally stumped

Final description: This one baffled me. I have no idea at all.


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

Participant 6

Initial description: Any black squares formed in the input needed to change to blue in the output.

Final description: Any black squares formed in the input needed to change to blue in the output.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 7

Initial description: Find 2x2 size squares or higher

Final description: Find 2x2 size squares or higher


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 8

Initial description: fill in the blocks of 4x4 or larger with blue

Final description: fill in the blocks of 4x4 or larger with blue


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 9

Initial description: Highlight squares found in the input grid that consisted of black tiles.

Final description: Highlight squares found in the input grid that consisted of black tiles.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 10

Initial description: any sqaure of 2x2 or larger = blue

Final description: any sqaure of 2x2 or larger = blue


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 11

Initial description: Every block with 4 or 6 spaces, I had to filled them with blue

Final description: Every block with 4 or 6 spaces, I had to filled them with blue


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 12

Initial description: The transformation would require areas of 3 by 3 or 2 by 2 to be changed to blue. No other changes are made.

Final description: The transformation would require areas of 3 by 3 or 2 by 2 to be changed to blue. No other changes are made.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 13

Initial description: Arranging the grid to match in scale at a height of 10, and a width of 10, copy over the format from the test input. Then, selecting blue, locate and fill all squares in the color black which are arranged with an equal width and height greater than 1. I missed a small portion of three squares.

Final description: Arranging the grid to match in scale at a height of 10, and a width of 10, copy over the format from the test input. Then, selecting blue, locate and fill all squares in the color black which are arranged with an equal width and height greater than 1. I missed a small portion of three squares.


Attempt 1: Correct