Visual Logic Quiz

About this test

Spatial reasoning tests almost always arrive as pictures. Here everything is written out: each figure is described precisely enough that you can rebuild it in your head without seeing anything. That is harder, because you have to construct the image before you can manipulate it — but construction is exactly the ability these tests claim to measure.

Three habits do most of the work. For folding, count layers: one fold gives two, two folds give four, three folds give eight, and a single punch makes as many holes as there are layers. For a large cube cut into small ones, sort by position: the eight corners always have three painted faces, edge cubes have two, face-centre cubes have one, and the core of the block has none. For rotations, fix your starting point and apply one quarter turn at a time instead of attempting the whole angle at once.

The last trap is mirrors. A mirror does not swap top and bottom, only left and right. A reflected clock therefore shows a time you recover by subtracting the apparent time from twelve. And a letter survives a vertical mirror only if it has a left-right axis of symmetry, which is far rarer than people expect.