Explaining the Mensa Norway IQ Test Through Animations (145+ IQ Answers)

I mostly made this video to practice using after effects so I could make better visuals for future videos :)

The explanations for puzzle 13, 18, 19, 33, and 34 are the best ones in my opinion.

Please let me know in the comments if you find interesting IQ Tests that you want me to check out!

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Segments:
00:00​​ Intro
00:11​​ Puzzle 1
00:24 Puzzle 2
00:39 Puzzle 3
00:55 Puzzle 4
01:07 Puzzle 5
01:20 Puzzle 6
01:35 Puzzle 7
01:51 Puzzle 8
02:06 Puzzle 9
02:22 Puzzle 10
02:36 Puzzle 11
02:45 Puzzle 12
03:12 Puzzle 13
03:37 Puzzle 14
03:53 Puzzle 15
04:08 Puzzle 16
04:33 Puzzle 17
04:46 Puzzle 18
04:56 Puzzle 19
05:11 Puzzle 20
05:22 Puzzle 21
05:33 Puzzle 22
05:48 Puzzle 23
06:05 Puzzle 24
06:15 Puzzle 25
06:27 Puzzle 26
06:39 Puzzle 27
06:56 Puzzle 28
07:07 Puzzle 29
07:29 Puzzle 30
07:40 Puzzle 31
07:51 Puzzle 32
08:02 Puzzle 33
08:18 Puzzle 34
08:39 Puzzle 35
08:55 Score

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Songs used:

[Exachad]

Very simple trick to get into Mensa. The earlier questions are always vertical/horizontal pattern based and the later questions (especially the last one) is almost always diagonal based. Looked at 35 and realised that every diagonal preserves one property. One diagonal connecting the missing block preserved the sideways lines while the other preserved the downward triangle. If you know to look at the diagonals, this pattern would have been spotted easily by most people.

[BonBonneBonjour]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how beautiful and satisfying this video is?

[crowdozer]

I pretty quickly picked up on the fact that the answers weren't strictly LTR or TTB transformations, but also diagonally, but I never noticed that they were adding things together and then removing or keeping the overlap. I struggled a lot with those but they make perfect sense now 😮

[karloponte]

genius. 34 explanation, never thought of it that way damn! that's hella interesting! I got that one 29, 32, 33, 34, and 35 wrong. all the last 5-10 are pretty tough!

[harutabashi]

TYPO, Exercise #30, middle square: missing upper left dot

[nguyenphucanthu]

I've found your solutions are really different and interesting. Thanks for giving useful knowledge. Love it! ❤️

[silvervortex]

This is the best way to explain.
You deserve more subscribers.

[AndrewNajash]

Nice to see how it’s meant to be solved with some beautiful animations, the last 4 were very confusing for me

[zakariyajeffali]

Even though I got the same answers, my brain did NOT process things the same way, intelligence and IQ seems to more complex than I thought, and I don't think a simple online test can determine the potential of my brain...

[Ishbelable]

This is really lovely to watch :) Thank you!

[vernunft]

Very excellent and creative presentation !
Maybe it's not the original thought process as most other people did on the test, but your innovation has inspired me a lot indeed .

[Mcoogie]

Something is wrong with puzzle 30, centre figure...I think it's the wrong figure and is missing a dot in top left corner. If we use your figure instead, we see that the dot (col1, row2, top left corner) plus blank (col2, row2, top left corner) should be dot( col3, row2, top left.) Instead we see a box (col3, row2, top left), which should be as a result of dot plus dot. ???? Anyone see this?

[symbicate]

35, as well, looks like a solution adjusted to the answer. Instead, a bottom row element can be formed as an intersection of diagonal elements from the second row minus the element from the first row right above the bottom element.

[watchbreaker]

I have been actually thinking of similar solutions to last 3 or 4 tasks, however my brain lacks memory and 3D processing power to test them in real time. lol.

[schang_lh]

It important to notice that when we see a diagonal pattern, moving down row, the one that supposedly goes out of the 6box range will appear on the other end next row (i.e. for right-to-left diagonal pattern, moving downward, box1 will move to box6). That did not occur to me when I did the test, so I was rly confused when Im face with a RTL diagonal problem even when I notices the diagonal pattern.

[cloerenjackson]

On exercise 8 I only see the top and bottom row as cycling patterns. The top rows all count 1 through 3 moving to the left. The bottom row counts 1 to 3 moving to the right and the middle row doesn't change. So, I'd only have slid the top rows, then the bottom rows and ignored the middle row. :)

I know how to solve 12 but don't understand the explanation. The clear region in each square rotates clockwise when you read left to right or anti clockwise if you read top to bottom. The grey region shifts to the right when you read top to bottom. Because the ravens matrices often work in groups of three you don't always have to know which way they rotate, you can often just note which of the three shapes is missing. So because each row and each column has two black and one grey shaded area you don't have to care which way it rotates, it's just "the other one". That gives you multiple ways of looking at the problem. In any case, it is the symbol with a black shaded region and the white region to the lower left.

29 was the first one I didn't solve. Even having seen it solved, I still can't easily see how you'd get to that from what you know at the start.

I'm not sure I would have ever worked out 30 without this. I think it's how I'm thinking. With the RPMs I'm so used to looking only for sequences that I haven't thought the solution could be anything else. On 30 it's modular arithmetic mod 3. As long as space is 0 then dot and square are 1 and 2 (and it doesn't make any difference which value you assign to which). What you do is sum the values of the shapes to get the outcome. So, it still really is a sequence. In this case each symbol shifts the answer through the sequences according to its symbol value, so, if you choose space = 0, dot = 1 and square = 2 then you sum those values (or shift by that amount from 0) and the result of that summation is the answer. I am not sure the animation makes it clear enough but the colour when two are superimposed maps to the correct symbol after the summation: Yellow = square, red = space, green = dot. Black = symbol maps over a space so it's unchanged (o is the identity element for addition).

Strange how, after that two question beasting, 31 is easy again.

34 is obscenely difficult. I don't know how you'd work it out from the clues after learning not all the information was visible at the start.

[cakestealer]

Somehow this confuses me even on the ones I got right. I wasn’t thinking of it as moving through the boxes though, more as phases of what happens.

[symbicate]

34 explanation is overcomplicated - it’s actually a bottom-down right-left diagonal puzzle where two adjacent dots are moving clockwise and can be overlapped by black dots which keep still.

[karloponte]

mind. freaking blown. 35 was all of that? that was the patter the whole time! DAMN! Awesome! You explaining it kind of made my mind break a little bit. Woah. Kaboom.

[TH-dgmm]

Question 19 was the first question where the diagonal pattern (from bottom left to right) becomes immediately obvious. I think without this question bridging questions 1-18 with questions 20-35 I would have likely done much worse.