Participant 1

Initial description: counting blocks and changing in groups.

Final description: I thought I was counting them out right.


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

Participant 2

Initial description: try to follow the way the patterns flowed in the examples

Final description: I thought the first one was correct so I just made guesses after that on how the pattern might need to be different


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

Participant 3

Initial description: The orange color continues forward unless it hits a wall. If it hits a wall it continues in either direction along the wall to the end of the grid, or if encounters a hole it turn into the hole.

Final description: The orange color continues forward unless it hits a wall. If it hits a wall it continues in either direction along the wall to the end of the grid, or if encounters a hole it turn into the hole.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 4

Initial description: To fill in the majority of empty spaces with red boxes.

Final description: To fill in most of the blocks blue, and add in some red tiles on every other row.


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

Participant 5

Initial description: Emulate the starting colored dot "flowing" through the pattern as if it were a liquid and affected by gravity from the opposite side it starts from.

Final description: Emulate the starting colored dot "flowing" through the pattern as if it were a liquid and affected by gravity from the opposite side it starts from.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 6

Initial description: The rule is for the red tiles to flow into the openings of the blue tiles.

Final description: I thought the rule was for the red tiles to flow into the openings of the blue tiles.


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

Participant 7

Initial description: The color alone should look for the shortest route possible to the other end.

Final description: same route all through


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

Participant 8

Initial description: Create a checkerboard pattern by alternating between the two colors in each row

Final description: Create a checkerboard pattern by alternating between the two colors in each row


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

Participant 9

Initial description: The red represents how water would flow through the blue holes.

Final description: How water would flow through the holes.


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