Participant 1

Initial description: Surround each yellow square with the peach color, making a perfect square, and touching a gray square.

Final description: To surround each yellow dot with the peach color, until it touched the gray. I am racking my brain and nothing else makes sense to me!


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

Participant 2

Initial description: Fill the areas around the yellow dots yellow until they border the closest gray area.

Final description: Fill the areas around the yellow dots yellow until they border the closest gray area.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 3

Initial description: Have 2 yellow squares

Final description: To place yellow and gray squares where they need to be


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

Participant 4

Initial description: Create a red box around the yellow squares and make the red box touch the closest grey square.

Final description: Create a red box around the yellow squares and make the red box touch the closest grey square.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 5

Initial description: Replicate pattern with red squares surrounding the yellow at an equal distance on all sides, but limited by the nearest grey square.

Final description: Replicate pattern with red squares surrounding the yellow at an equal distance on all sides, but limited by the nearest grey square.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 6

Initial description: For the yellow points, draw a red square around them just big enough for it to be stopped by a gray point.

Final description: For the yellow points, draw a red square around them just big enough for it to be stopped by a gray point.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 7

Initial description: Making a red square around the central input that only reaches the closest stopping point.

Final description: Making a red square around the central point that touched the closest gray point.


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

Participant 8

Initial description: To space the yellow block appropriately

Final description: To adjust grid size to show more


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

Participant 9

Initial description: Keep yellow and gray the same, surround yellow squares with red squares that grow larger further down the input.

Final description: Surround the yellow square with red squares, with larger red squares the more yellow squares there are. Gray squares must touch one part of the red.


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

Participant 10

Initial description: I don't know.

Final description: I don't know.


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

Participant 11

Initial description: The yellow tile is the middle of a perfect square whose dimensions are indicated by the most proximal grey tile.

Final description: The yellow tile is the middle of a perfect square whose dimensions are indicated by the most proximal grey tile.


Attempt 1: Correct

Participant 12

Initial description: Yellow boxes are surrounded evenly by red until a gray box is touched.

Final description: I thought it was surrounding the yellow with red, until touching a gray box.


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

Participant 13

Initial description: Circle the yellow dot with red till it reaches a grey dot.

Final description: Circle the yellow dot with red until you reach a grey dot. Make sure all sides are the same.


Attempt 1: Incorrect
Attempt 2: Correct