Which Symbol Completes the Pattern? Test Your Abstract Reasoning

Explanation

Editor’s Pick from Reddit After this puzzle was shared on Reddit, many different solution attempts were posted. Among them, two explanations stood out for describing the underlying pattern in a particularly clear and consistent way. 🥇 Tiberium600 Tiberium600 provided the most comprehensive explanation by separating the puzzle into two independent rules. The comment not only identified the AND operation for the inner clock hands and the XOR operation for the outer arcs, but also explained how each rule works with concrete examples. Showing that both rules apply consistently across every row and column made this one of the strongest explanations we received. 🥈 Dense-Sort-3867 Dense-Sort-3867 reached the same conclusion in a much more concise and technical way. By describing the inner lines as an AND operation and the outer arcs as an XOR operation, the comment distilled the puzzle’s logic into just a few sentences while remaining both accurate and easy to verify. Although written independently, both comments identified the same underlying rule. That consistency is one of the reasons these explanations were selected as our Editors’ Picks.