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I'm trying out a puzzle idea. I'm going to make two posts below that are abstractions of famous pictures. I want to see who can guess correctly what they are. Since I'm trying to make a new kind of puzzle from scratch, I'd appreciate any constructive criticism you have. Also, I won't be surprised if someone somewhere has made something exactly the same or very similar.

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Picture #1.

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Picture #2.

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The first one I think is pretty easy. I'm guessing a lot of people should get it at a glance. The second one, I'm hoping is a little harder and provides an "Aha!" moment to those that guess it.

I should point out that once you have an idea, it is pretty easy to verify that the idea is correct. Google for the image and compare the puzzle image to it. Rects should line up pretty clearly with the elements they depict.

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ErikH2000 wrote:
The first one I think is pretty easy. I'm guessing a lot of people should get it at a glance. The second one, I'm hoping is a little harder and provides an "Aha!" moment to those that guess it.

I got the second one almost right away, but have so far no idea about the first one.

This looks like a very interesting puzzle format, but I am concerned it's one of those things where you either know the answer immediately or not at all.
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I think #1 is

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#2 - I'm guessing

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It's a nifty idea.


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I haven't figured the first one out yet, but the second one...
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About Rabscuttle's guess for the first one...never mind! I stand corrected...Rabscuttle was correct. Good job!

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Mikko wrote:
ErikH2000 wrote:
The first one I think is pretty easy. I'm guessing a lot of people should get it at a glance. The second one, I'm hoping is a little harder and provides an "Aha!" moment to those that guess it.

I got the second one almost right away, but have so far no idea about the first one.

This looks like a very interesting puzzle format, but I am concerned it's one of those things where you either know the answer immediately or not at all.

Possibly. As long as the image is known and the clues are well chosen, I think it could be possible to work it out. #1 was probably a lucky guess
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, but I think I did have the "Aha!" with #2
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I managed to guess both, but then I notice that both have been guessed already. :|

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Mikko wrote:
This looks like a very interesting puzzle format, but I am concerned it's one of those things where you either know the answer immediately or not at all.
Yeah, I wish there was a way I could tell the person playing the puzzle if they had seen the picture before without giving the answer away. I am relying here on images that nearly everyone has seen many times, and would recognize instantly if they were shown the original image.

It seems like a fruitful idea worth developing. If anybody else wants to throw a picture of their own up here, I would love to try it from the solving side.

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Rabscuttles #1 answer makes sense...except that
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Rabscuttles #1 answer makes sense...except that
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It's hard to think of a good picture.

Here's one that is probably very easy.

Here it is (under the secret tag)
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Boxes are probably not _exact_, but I don't think it should matter.
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I don't believe in conspiracies. I think a bunch of people just made them up.
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Rabs is right, picking a good picture is hard.

I picked one out, then after starting I realized... (little bit of a spoiler: )
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, but I had already started, so I finished it.

I also started making too many boxes, but couldn't decide what to get rid of, so I just left them all in, and used short descriptions. Meh.


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Here's another one (under the secret tag)

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Rabs is right, picking a good picture is hard.

I picked one out, then after starting I realized... (little bit of a spoiler: )
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, but I had already started, so I finished it.

I also started making too many boxes, but couldn't decide what to get rid of, so I just left them all in, and used short descriptions. Meh.

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Minimalism?


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Hehehe. I like it!
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Game on,

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These puzzles remind me a lot of "Language Equations" (examples one and two). Example: 4 = S. in a D. of C. (4 Suits in a Deck of Cards).

They can be either immediately obvious or have you cudgeling your brain for hours. And some of them are extremely topical...I remember the "original" puzzle set I got in elementary school had ones that we were mostly able to get except for "18 1/2 = M. E. from the W. T." Which some old person finally realized was "18 1/2 Minutes Erased from the Watergate Tapes." :P

Anyway, it seems like it could be quite interesting as long as you get the genders of the people correct. ;)

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Schik wrote:
I picked one out, then after starting I realized...
I got it! Big "aha" moment for me.

The answer is...
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My means of arriving at the answer...
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I think that was a good puzzle. I may try a little harder on the others later. Nothing came to me at first glance. Well, other than Rabscuttle's "minimalism" pic, which was pretty cool.

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Anyway, it seems like it could be quite interesting as long as you get the genders of the people correct. ;)
Yeah, sorry. I suck. For anyone trying to get the 1st puzzle, the "Woman looking intently left, with hands pointing towards her chest." should be "Man looking intently left...".

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On reflection, I don't think my first example is exactly the same style of puzzle as the others. There are definitely more clues that could be given - but I think that might make the answer too obvious. I'll whip up another version.
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Here's a version with more clues.


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Rabscuttle wrote:
Here's a version with more clues.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh! Groan. Okay, yeah. I get it. It's...

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Good one. My thought process...

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Excellent puzzle. I think I might have gotten it from the first pic, but making these things easy is probably a good idea.

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The answer to Rabscuttle's puzzle #2 is...

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Thought process...
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Took about 5 minutes.

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Alright, here's one from me. It should be fairly easy. And very easily spoiled, so I won't say anything else now.
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:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

I got it.

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Here's one:

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