This is not my pic because I forgot to screenshot it when I did it. Microsoft has the hardest captcha I have ever had to complete. This one looks easier but I had a similar one that on my phone the images were too small, not recognizable and were more abstract looking shapes. It was so hard, I failed like 8 times (there were several ‘rounds’) and it almost made me second guess whether I might actually be a robot lol. Luckily, there was an audio version where you have to pick from a number of melody recordings and choose the one that was a pattern. Anyone else have trouble with this?
My solution:
The outer square lines in the third column/row is the result of the difference between what exists in the first two items in that row/column. Only outer lines appearing only once will be in the 3rd shape. The center lines seem to be only center lines that appear in both shapes. Therefore x is 52, since all outer shapes cancel and there are no shared center lines. The rest is fairly simple.
The second derivative of f(x) is 78x + 22, so the answer is 78(52) + 22 + 52 = 4130
I’m not completely confident in this solution but it seems to be consistent with the known columns and rows.
The patterns work from top to bottom too.
The outside is XOR and the clock is AND.
Never would have figured out that was XOR.
I agree with your solution! GG
4078 + 52 = 4 130