Every question gives you a grid of shapes, two rows by three columns. Two cells have been taken out and their dashed boxes blink with ?₁ and ?₂. Below the grid are nine shape options marked from left to right with letters, and below those are five answer cards. Each card carries two letters: the left one is your answer for ?₁, the right one for ?₂.
Say the two missing shapes to yourself first, find them among the options, remember their letters, then pick the one card where both letters match. A wrong card costs nothing and never skips the question — it just shakes, and the lesson points you back in the right direction. A round is twelve questions: ten points if you get it first time, six if it takes a couple of tries.
Don't start counting cells. Ask three questions instead — each one is a direction to look in:
Answer those three and any cell can be worked out: its row decides the shape, its column decides the size and the fill.
Rows say what the shape is; columns say how big it is and whether it's solid. So once a blank's row and column are known, exactly one shape can go there — no guessing, no trying all nine options one by one. The skill being practiced is reading the position accurately, then checking against it.
Because a first question asks you to notice two things at once: which shape this row uses, and how big this column is. Being slow there is fine — slow is what makes the pattern visible. From the second question on you will glance along the row, then down the column, and the speed comes from having a routine, not from remembering answers.
Does a wrong answer lose points or skip the question?Neither. The score only goes up when you answer correctly; a miss simply means this question earns six instead of ten.
Do the hints give the answer away?No. They describe the method — rows first, then columns, then fill — and leave the matching to you.
Are the questions fixed?No. All twelve are generated on the spot, each with a different pair of shape rows, and the decoys are built to look close: right shape but wrong size, right size but wrong shape. The rule itself is always single and checkable.