The first puzzle I chose was this triangle cat puzzle. The mission was the count how many triangles made up this picture of a cat. At first, I counted 21 triangles. I recounted (just to make sure) and I came up with 18. I asked my friend Alex to count how many triangles he could find, and he counted 19. We both used the same method; we started at the top of the cat and worked our way down, making sure to count both the small triangle and the larger triangle. In the end, I believe there are 18 triangles, and Alex accidentally counted 1 more on accident.
The second puzzle I chose was the circle puzzle. The mission of this puzzle was the determine which two colors has the exact equal amount of color showing. This was more of a challenge because all the circles overlapped and it made it hard to determine. This time, Alex and I used different methods to come to our conclusions. I used my eyes and tried to determine the answer strictly based on vision. I squinted my eyes and I chose which two colors seemed to be equal in proportion and size; thus concluding the answer was yellow and green. This method was not very precise, and it probably wasn't the best way to go about it. Alex, on the other hand, used a more logical approach. He studied each circle, determined which circles had 2 overlaps and which circles only had 1. He discovered that the two colors red and green seemed to have the same amount of overlapped circled in their groups.
I opted to only upload one copy of each picture because they were visual puzzles, rather than individual puzzles.
-Shawna England
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