My wife and I completed some visual thinking operations. Here is our work, along with explanations of why we did what we did...
For awhile I tried to think of all sorts of codes for translating these symbols to a month. I thought it was probably a month with few letters. Then I noticed that each symbol had a vertical symmetrical balance, and like with inverse drawing, I discovered the word 'JULY' by folding down the symbols mentally.
My wife saw how the symbols related to one and other, in that there is a whole circle with two halves followed by another whole-like symbol that could be seen as suggesting something by its shape. She guessed that the group may stand for June because it is the half-way point of the year. Good effort, and interesting strategy...
These final two puzzles involved us in the visual thinking operations of 'finding'. We were to count the total number of triangles. My wife's try is shown here with mine below. The answer is twenty. My wife counted nineteen...
I have to
admit that although my try shows twenty, neither of us counted all
twenty on the first few tries. For me my visual reasoning messed me up
when it came to the eyes. I counted the four seperate triangles but neglected to count the two larger triangles that composed each eye. I guess I was looking so much to find each triangle, I neglected to step back enough to see the completing going on which presented the two extra triangles. I counted 18 for the longest time...
We also both had trouble with the tail. This involved a bit of rotating and completing, because several triangles compose the tail, and to find them all, you need to really activate your visual reasoning.
These operations really tested our mental skills.
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