My 10-year-old niece sent me a puzzle that she wanted me to solve. She has her general knowledge paper tomorrow and was unable to get the correct answer, so she asked if I could solve the puzzle. My wife and I both tried to solve it, and we got the same answer that my niece already had. The problem was that, according to her book, that answer was not correct. So, I thought I’d ask reasoning models to find the answer.
Below is the puzzle. We have to find the value for the question mark:
It is a simple number pattern puzzle. You have to identify which pattern this puzzle uses to find the number. My wife, my niece, and I all got 9 as the answer. My niece’s book suggested 7 as the answer. We just couldn’t figure out how to get 7. To us, it looks like a printing mistake in her book.
Below is what each of the models produced. I uploaded the image and prompted them to “Solve the puzzle.”
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