Questions tagged [pattern]
A puzzle in which you spot the pattern that links a set of given data items (like numbers, letters, music tunes). Usually, you use your insights into the pattern to find one or more new elements of the set.
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What is a He shoots! He scores! word™?
This puzzle is inspired by the What is a Word™ and What is a Phrase™ series started by JLee and their spin-off What is a Number™ series.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a He shoots! ...
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What is a Pendulum word™?
This puzzle is inspired by the What is a Word™ and What is a Phrase™ series started by JLee and their spin-off What is a Number™ series.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Pendulum ...
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What is a Productive Word™?
This is inspired by the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
Here are some words, both examples of Productive Words™ and non-examples. What ...
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Complete the integer sequence: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, ?, ?, ?, ?
Here is a sequence I happened to work out, although I am certainly not the first one.
Can you fill in the missing numbers?
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, ?, ?, ?, ?
NB: The sequence ends after the last ...
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Shadowed Dragon Ciphers: #2
This is the SHADOW Cipher in a small sample. One of my hardest, Good Luck!:
Z+b s v k v x w z d o x
-The Shadowed Dragon
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What is a CCC word?
This is inspired by the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
This table shows some, but not all, CCC words and several similar non-CCC ...
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What pattern did Excel see in my data?
I was filling out the rightmost column of this set of cells from top to bottom. (The content of that column is intended to be manually calculated using the numbers to the left plus some hidden weights,...
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Progressive matrix of squares and circles
I've tried to see any progression between rows or columns without luck
I also noticed that we could have a cell formed by combining two other cells, like:
cell (1, 1) is a combination of cells (2, 2)...
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What is the pattern of this mystery box?
My friend and I found a mystery box, which requires a paper of number and gives us a ball written O or X.
Here are some results of my trial.
number
result
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O
2
O
12
X
111
O
2222
O
342
O
351
X
432
X
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Progressive matrix with blue bars, green dots, and yellow stars
This is from a question asked on Reddit. Personally I believe the answer is 2, but I think my logic is flawed.
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What is a Pasted Word™?
This is inspired by the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
To be frank I only discovered this today because of the recent What is an Evil ...
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Rotating Flower petals pattern matching [closed]
Working through a puzzle book - I came across the following two puzzles, and can't work out the solution or explanation. (I don't have the answer section).
Puzzle 1:
and
Puzzle 2:
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What is an Evil Word™?
This is inspired by the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an Evil Word™.
Use the ...
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Sequence of triangular matrices with dots in them
A friend sent me this picture from a kid's math competition (this is a chinese competition for kindergarten kids so the answer is unlikely to involve fibonacci triangles or anything beyond elementary ...
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Pattern of the Chessy Sequence
Find the pattern of the chessy sequence.
Kn1 = 43x73x101x137
Kn2 = 25x41x26161
Kn3 = 43232323
Kn4 = 2x16170607
Kn5 = 32x4801369
Kn6 = 23x32x7x59x1087
Kn7 = 32x4801369
Kn8 = 2x16170607
(All of the ...
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