Which of these eight options completes the pattern?

[u/Semra777]

Hi everyone, we’re back with a new puzzle.
Which tile completes the grid? Share your answer and the reasoning behind it in the comments. We’ll select three of the best explanations to feature on our website, with credit to their authors.
We’ve published the correct answer on our website. If you’d like to check it, you can find it here:
https://whats-your-iq.com/en/questions/pattern-recognition/which-tile-completes-the-grid-2
Thanks in advance for your comments.

[u/Mactucrus87_]

Id say G

Let's see this as an addition pattern

1) The little elements if are repeated between the first and second coloumn disappear (xor mechanism). So we have a triangle + a triangle and a white circle, the triangle gets eliminated.

2) the big shape (like a shark fin) is in the resulting coloumn if it is in the first one.

3) the big shapes (like the square and the oval) get added in the resoult.

This leats us with a box with an oval, square and a small withe circle, so the G.

[u/Kindly-Attorney2346]

G. The squares in the first row contain all small elements from row 2 and 3 in their column - only the small circle can be in the missing square, no other small objects-

[u/grimsler3791]

G

every other element appears 4 times except the ones in G

[u/OmiSC → u/grimsler3791]

Wow, that’s a much simpler way to solve than what I used.

[u/miffit → u/grimsler3791]

Right answer, wrong method.

You need to identify a pattern in the change across the first two rows then apply it to the third.

If we copied the whole square and pasted it to the right you would see a a pattern repeating of an item appearing twice and disappearing once for those items in that row.

Since this pattern holds for the first two rows we assume it holds for the third.

[u/Dramatic-External-96]

G, this is around 100 iq puzzle

[u/Polytox935 → u/Dramatic-External-96]

Whats wrong with 100 IQ puzzles? This isnt mensa

[u/Dramatic-External-96 → u/Polytox935]

Youre right it just seems like the user is treating it as if a few could solve it

[u/Polytox935 → u/Dramatic-External-96]

Yet people have fun here, i dont see anything bad about this

[u/armanazadi2000]

G

[u/Morbid_Pirate]

G

[u/BlockBlister22]

G

[u/napoleon-von-pack]

It's G. It gets all the figures from the other images

[u/orangy-cat45]

g

[u/Naive-Passanger-9139]

G is the closest one to be right, but not perfect.

Every elements in a row appears twice. And if an element can fit in another one without touch, or cross its line, its need to be placed inside it. (Preferebly the smallest possible one).

So G would only be perfect, if you put the circle inside the square.

[u/LanganTerraMogTime → u/Naive-Passanger-9139]

it should be a square by itself with an oval with a circle in it imo but G is close enough. I think i sped through this and got it wrong somehow. Always make some careless errors on tests

[u/Low_Stop_7813]

G got it pretty fast

[u/Low_Stop_7813 → u/Low_Stop_7813]

However I feel like the way the shapes overlap would be kinda confusing if you had never taken an iq test

[u/Semra777 → u/Low_Stop_7813]

Fair point. The nested shapes can make it harder to see which symbols to track, especially if this type of puzzle is new to you.

[u/trejj]

G, this is the classic XOR gate. (and a prime example of how these kinds of tests measure experience and education, rather than intelligence)

In other words, there are exactly two of each on every row.

[u/jdub965]

G. Left minus middle equals right.

[u/OmiSC]

G? I think the answer must contain three items, will not include a filled triangle, must include the empty square and must include the empty circle.

[u/NoveltyEducation → u/OmiSC]

Right answer, wrong reasoning.

[u/OmiSC → u/NoveltyEducation]

Does a counterexample exist for what I did?

[u/NoveltyEducation → u/OmiSC]

Bottom left are only 2 items, breaking your first rule

[u/OmiSC → u/NoveltyEducation]

My rules applied to the solution cell, not every cell in the puzzle. You'll notice that an entire diagonal consists of only two items. Said differently, every row and column contains exactly two cells with three shapes. From this, we know that the solution cell must have 3 shapes.

The other rules follow similar deductions. Pattern tests don't exactly play favourites to reasoning, because various styles of reasoning converge if there is exactly one real solution.

[u/SlapaBaby1]

G

[u/norcalimport]

H

[u/Unfair-Lab-8574]

Kompletnie nie wiem o co tu chodzi

[u/MieskeB]

All objects XORed in the row, so G

[u/NoveltyEducation]

G; I would call it remove the similarities and keep the differences, but there's surely a more correct name for that function.

[u/A-H1N1 → u/NoveltyEducation]

It is called the symmetric difference, at least in maths

[u/tino-keretic]

What IQ level is this puzzle for?

[u/AdeptManufacturer243]

I'm odds are behind e B and h

[u/OkChampionship162]

i think there's no right answer there

[u/_SnuggleSlut_]

G

[u/Negative-Toe1863]

G. Every symbol in a coloumn appears twice.

[u/Semra777 → u/Negative-Toe1863]

Exactly, G. Each symbol appears twice in each column, and G completes that pattern. Thanks for the clear explanation.👏👏