Spyke
lemmy.sdf.org

As a Tetris player, it's 2 T-pieces and a line-piece. Each Tetris piece is 4 squares (Tetris = tetra (meaning 4) + Tennis). 3 Tetris pieces times 4 squares each = 12 tiles

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SandmanXCreply
lemmy.world

Just keep imagining another tile until you can't anymore.

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Zachariahreply
lemmy.world

But isn’t that how many imaginary tiles there are? Thats not counting the tiles that aren’t there. You’re just deciding the number of imaginary tiles is the same as the missing tiles.

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You can see that there are 4 rows where tiles are missing, and you can use the minimum and maximum size of the adjacent tiles in a row to assume how many can fit in each row, because the lines formed by edges WILL all line up. It's all about deciding where the boundaries are.

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lemmy.cafe

I kept trying to find out why it would be 9. Until I saw the community name.

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havid_dumereply
lemmy.ml

I'm still confused as to how the original guy came to the conclusion of 9. Like, what was he seeing incorrectly?

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I can see how he might have counted 8 but that last one is a mystery.

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Even if, because of the angle, you mistook it for being smaller, it'd be 8, not 9.

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Lojcsreply

If you see the bottom left as 1 wide instead of 2 it's easy to count 9. I did a couple times before seeing that other comment

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Im sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. Im still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.

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It is a joke about the singular person who should be better at counting blocks if they are going to reference their experience with minecraft.

I also think this was someone being intentionally wrong, because giving the experience with minecraft first makes being wrong a punchline.

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