Participant 1

Initial description: Filled in the triangular spaces w/ red but only to the highest point at which the line hits the grid

Final description: Filled in the triangular spaces w/ red but only to the highest point at which the line hits the grid


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 2

Initial description: Fill in under the first peak starting where the pink boxes start then fill in the rest of the v-shaped areas based on where the pink boxes start and end heigth wise.

Final description: Fill in the areas between the pink squares only.


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

Participant 3

Initial description: purple squares move diagonally upward, and when the top is reached, the squares move diagonally downward until the bottom row is reached. Then the purple squares move diagonally upward to reach the top row at the end, the 9th column.

Final description: I successfully copied the first test input, but the message was that my answer was incorrect. So I moved on. This is example Out put 1 to show you that I understand the tools.


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

Participant 4

Initial description: The Test Output's dimensions are determined by the Test Input's. The pink (outline) blocks must be in the same position as illustrated in the Test Input's. The red color must go anywhere in between two outline blocks that are parallel to one another.

Final description: The Test Output's dimensions are determined by the Test Input's. The pink (outline) blocks must be in the same position as illustrated in the Test Input's. The red color must go anywhere in between two outline blocks that are parallel to one another.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 5

Initial description: fill in the space between a pair of colored pixels on the same horizontal row with red

Final description: fill in the space between a pair of colored pixels on the same horizontal row with red


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 6

Initial description: Fill the pyramid shapes with red to between the alternative color.

Final description: Fill the pyramid shapes with red to between the alternative color.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 7

Initial description: Reset grid to 4 x 9, alternate filling in every other section with orange while leaving the others black

Final description: Reset grid to 4 x 9 size, alternate filling in upper and lower sections with orange while leaving the rest black.


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

Participant 8

Initial description: Fill up the main pyramid shape with red squares and the other partial pyramid shapes with a few red squares

Final description: Input 3 messed me up as far as any pattern I saw - in all the others it appears to just fill in the main pyramid shape with red squares, but then Input 3 has those extra red squares in the partial pyramid areas with no seeming patterns or reason that I could come up with why they chose to fill with a certain number of red squares


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

Participant 9

Initial description: Fill in the negative space of an arc with red squares.

Final description: Fill in the negative space with a red symmetric shape.


Attempt 1: Incorrect
Attempt 2: Correct