ARC Visualizations

Participant 1

Initial description: i had trie

Final description: i had trie

Participant 2

Initial description: Copy the pattern from one of the 3 sections

Final description: Copy the pattern from one of the 3 sections

Participant 3

Initial description: Duplicate a colored section of the grid at random.

Final description: I honestly don't know why one section was correct and the other two weren't. I could not tell the differences based on the example outputs. But since I had three chances, I just tried until I hit the right one. But I don't know why the yellow and gray section was the right one and the other two were not. So I sort of knew the solution, but sort of didn't.

Participant 4

Initial description: Good.

Final description: Good.

Participant 5

Initial description: well

Final description: well

Participant 6

Initial description: I thought I was covering the entire 3x9 rectangle. Need to try again.

Final description: I thought it was filling in the empty spaces with an unused color.

Participant 7

Initial description: There are 3, 3x3 grids. Look at the grids and see which of the grids have shapes of a single color that are continuous. If the same spot on another grid overlaps those shapes then those grids are discarded, and you are left with the grid you want.

Final description: One of the three, 3x3 grids is the answer. Since we have 3 attempts I was bound to find it. I'm not 100% sure how it works though. I think if you can rearrange the colors of grids and they overlap, they those grids are removed, and then you are left with the grid you want.

Participant 8

Initial description: I thought the rule was that the output magnifies the square that has a consistent L shape. The dark blue L on the bottom of the test input seemed to me the only one that made sense.

Final description: This one was process of elimination. I don't really know what the rule for this task was, but it was the only of the three 3x3 squares I didn't try.

Participant 9

Initial description: Copy entire horizontal and vertical pattern of blue and light blue from original input into output exactly.

Final description: Copy entire top 3x3 section of original input of pattern of horizontal and vertical squares of gray and yellow into output.

Participant 10

Initial description: Recreate the 3x3 grid that has an L-shaped section of one color.

Final description: Recreate the 3x3 grid that has an L-shaped section of one color.

Participant 11

Initial description: Divide input by thirds- top, middle, bottom. Transpose whichever third has either blues only, yellow and green only, or green and pink only.

Final description: Divide the Test Input into thirds vertically, so there is a top third, middle third, and bottom third. One of the thirds is transposed as the Test Output, exactly as it is. It should be the one that most closely matches a combination of the other 2 (pattern).

Participant 12

Initial description: Based on the example, the output is a 3x3 grid. The output was one of 3x3 grids stack vertically on top of each other. I was not sure with one (top, middle, or bottom).

Final description: Based on the example, the output is a 3x3 grid. The output was one of 3x3 grids stack vertically on top of each other. I was not sure with one (top, middle, or bottom). I tried each 3x3 grid until I got the right solution.