The left one is my visual puzzle and the one on the right was my friend's. I used lines to mark snakes on my puzzle and tried filling in lines to complete the connection of the snakes. My friend numbered each snake and connected each whole snake to connect them from beginning to end. I picked the green as the shortest because it looked like there were less lines connected to me. My friend picked the red one as the shortest, he figured this out by connecting curves of each snake and found out the red one was correct. So the goal was to find which snake pattern was shortest using pattern seeking techniques like filling in, finding, matching, categorizing, completion, etc. I think I only really used filling in and categorization while my friend used most of the pattern seeking techniques which led him to the correct conclusion.
The puzzle on the left is my friends and the one on the right is mine. Neither of us got the right number of triangles (20), but I managed to get 19. I think my friend has better visual memory than me because I felt I had trouble with the snakes puzzle but this one was much simpler for me. I think also I did not have to use matching and categorizing as much for this one either since all the shapes in the puzzle are triangular. This puzzle was just a matter of finding all triangles which was easier for me since this one relied more counting. My friend did not seem to use filling-in patterns which is probably why he missed seeing many of the larger triangles. I however did use the filling-in visual and managed to get most of them, except one which I may have simply overlooked. It was interesting to see how my friend and I did the same puzzles yet yielded different results because of out differences in visual thinking and observation abilities.
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