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How many triples can you locate, in the grid below?
In this puzzle -- from a Page-a-Day Calendar of brainteasers -- a triple is any set of three adjacent cells (running vertically, horizontally, or diagonally) that satisfy all three of the following conditions.
(1) From cell-to-cell, the shapes must be all the same OR they must be all different
(2) From cell-to-cell, the number of objects must be all the same OR they must be all different
(3) From cell-to-cell, the objects' shading must be all the same OR it must be all different
For examples:
Look at the first three cells in row four. These do not form a triple because the shading is neither all the same (one open, two dotted) nor all different.
Look at the last three cells in row four. These do form a triple because the shapes are all the same (squares), the numbers of cell objects are all different (1,2,3), and the shadings are all different (open, closed, dotted).
In this puzzle -- from a Page-a-Day Calendar of brainteasers -- a triple is any set of three adjacent cells (running vertically, horizontally, or diagonally) that satisfy all three of the following conditions.
(1) From cell-to-cell, the shapes must be all the same OR they must be all different
(2) From cell-to-cell, the number of objects must be all the same OR they must be all different
(3) From cell-to-cell, the objects' shading must be all the same OR it must be all different
For examples:
Look at the first three cells in row four. These do not form a triple because the shading is neither all the same (one open, two dotted) nor all different.
Look at the last three cells in row four. These do form a triple because the shapes are all the same (squares), the numbers of cell objects are all different (1,2,3), and the shadings are all different (open, closed, dotted).
