another little web puzzle game

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:38 pm

This one's great...kind of reminds me of certain types of IQ tests

My highest score so far is 949
http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/games/matter/

The submit high score and play again buttons don't seem to work for me, but it's easy enough to play again by clicking the refresh button.

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:58 pm

fyffer · Post by **fyffer** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 4:33 pm

The first one took me forever, but then I put my brain back on:

Got 1026!

EDIT: Played again, got 1064!
(I need to go home ...)

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 4:56 pm

Sorry. Timers freak me. Like the computer GED. Did good on verbal. Did good on math. Had a panic attack on the analytical because of the timer.

Paul Reid · Post by **Paul Reid** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 5:03 pm

1041

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:00 pm

1141

There are a number of groupings that are common..the more you play, the faster you get at recognizing them

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:00 pm

That was fun. I can't remember my score but it wasn't in the 1000's

. I just ignored the timer---they make me nervous too, although this one would just keep going forever, it doesn't ding or anything. It was so hard that I just decided to see if I could do them at all.

I felt that the model on the first one I had was not quite the same as the thing I made that was considered correct----I don't think you could really make the model. Did anyone else notice this? It kind of goofed me up because I kept rejecting things that were actually right. I could be nuts too.

The other strange thing is that it said I was in the "Top 20". Well, every score here is higher than mine. That's 4. Then there's the whole rest of the world. How could I be in the top 20? My score was something like 750 or so.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:16 am

Am I missing something? Aren't you supposed to be able to rotate the pieces?

What about overlapping? Is that allowed?

oops. Never mind. I get it.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:22 am

No. I went back and did it again. You don't need to, and can't, turn or overlap them. They'll work as is.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:21 am

I don't take tests like this anymore, but not for the same reason that I no longer go to operas. I taught high school mathematics for several years, and I am fairly good at spatial orientation. Timed tests, however, make me feel stupid and anxious, like I need to take a few more of my St. John's Wort capsules. I don't want to know that my test result is 426, below average but to keep trying.

Matt_Paris · Post by **Matt_Paris** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:35 am

1175... But Wanderer is quite right

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:43 am

Doug_Tipple wrote:Timed tests, however, make me feel stupid and anxious, like I need to take a few more of my St. John's Wort capsules. I don't want to know that my test result is 426, below average but to keep trying.

Thanks Doug. You're speaking for me. Though I've no doubt you'd complete these puzzles more quickly than I.

I realized, based on my GED mathematical score, that though I'd completed less than 2/3 of the test when the time was about up and I had to quickly answer "C" (an arbitrary choice) for the remaining questions, I'd at least gotten them all right.
T'ain't a bad thing to be able to do it right, even if you've got a slow dinosaur of a processor.