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JJ's absent not because he's training, but because they already knew he'd fail! 😂

for once, jj is actually *smart* for not taking this test.

I literally saw the exact same pattern as Josh for question 13. I was so confident so i actually felt his confusion when it wasn't right and no one wanted to listen

I dont like how quickly they dismissed Josh's logic simply because it was the wrong answer. My guy made valid points and i actually agree with him.

I got 11, my logic for the flower one was the same as josh’s 😬

Can't believe Mr. Knowledge wasn't here. He would've smoked everyone on the IQ test. He has an IQ of 165 as previously proven by him on his video.

Josh mate don’t worry question 13 i was with you on the whole pattern thing 😂 goes half then disappears 😂

I got 12/15 however I did work out question 13 exactly like josh did and it boggled my brain that it didn’t make sense to anyone else 😂😂

Vik’s face through the whole video just shows how concentrated he is Edit: Thanks for the likes guys

With the flower one I got A. My working out was: you have to think of it organically. In the second slide the flower on the right is dying so disappears on the third slide. on the fourth slide the flower in the middle begins dying but the flower on the right is growing back. because of that, logically, the next slide would have the middle flower dead and the right flower grown back therefore A.

Vik was definitely getting the answer for question 4 with all that focus

I have been binge watching through sidemen videos , and we have to see a new update iq test from the sidemen , or we love seeing the activity’s that involve the tv , bc a lot of us audience are in school / studying and it’s just fun to see sidemen doing , guess the country games / iq tests , guess the emoji or guess the link , we enjoy and it brings a laughter and comfort well we are studying!! , definitely need a update on iq tests that would be fun 🧡

Simon low-key would be a great host for a T-V show tho 😂

I was with Josh 💯 on question 13, I saw exactly the same answer, wrong but made sense in my head lol

Josh’s reasoning was sound - these tests can have multiple interpretations and the ‘correct’ answer is usually what what the examiners have decided Here’s what Josh was trying to say - 1 flower halves then disappears - 2 flowers half - by his logic 2 should disappear In this model the next sequence would then be 3 flowers half 3 disappear

I agree with Josh on question 13! I think the test go it wrong.. I figured it the same exact way Josh did. That is absolutely a pattern.

ethan being the backbench kid just in his own world while others r in the class lmaoo love it

About Josh and Vik and their respective #13: At Mensa (some IQ-organization) they teach you that people view things like these in different ways, because of different thinking patterns, caused by outer circumstances. The "correct way" to view them is how Simon explains it - you imitate the movement of the whole picture and see it as states of things, that are changing. Viks way is very interesting because its the moving way: In his head there is an invisible row of items around the shown part of the module. The #13 task is proposed with this in mind so both ways work. Josh's way is in theory the same as the "correct way", but with him not imitating the movement of the whole picture, but looking at the transformation of individual items, thus leading to him being convinced its B. One would usually award half a point for this, because the thinking is right, but not concidering everything given in the module. Hope this explains it, great banter in the vid, we all know Ethan simply has exam nerves.

I chose A for the flower one but while they were still choosing I also said “couldn’t it be B?” Because the pattern could be “Starting from the right most flower: flowers lose their petals from right to left until there aren’t any petals left on it. Once the flower to your right loses a petal, you begin losing a pedal from right to left and all the previous flowers gain their left petal back. Once the flower to your left loses all its petals you also lose all your petals.” So basically if “B” was the next frame, then the following frame after that would be all flowers with only their left petal, and the frame after that would be all flowers with no petals.

For Q13 I saw exactly the same thing Vik did, like you have 3 leaves - each with 2 halves. So we basically have 1L, 1R, 2L, 2R, 3L, and 3R. In image 1 we have all 6 present, and in image 2 the last one is moved by one leaf to the right, and as there are no more leaves to the right, it disappears, now we only have 1L, 1R, 2L, 2R, and 3L. In image 3 we see again now 3L is also to move by one leaf to the right, and as again there are no more leaves to the right, so it disappears. We now have 1L, 1R, 2L, and 2R. So now as we're going backwards in leaves, we check the middle leaf. The second half of leaf 2 now moves by one leaf to the right as well, onto leaf 3, and on any one leaf of course we put it on the left if the left is free. So now we have 1L, 1R, 2L, and 3L. Now we're still on leaf 2, so we again have to move 2L by one leaf to the right, moving it onto leaf 3, as 3L is taken, it becomes 3R. So for the 5th image we have 1L, 1R, 3L, and 3R, and thus option A.

In terms of intelligence, Simon is very underrated. He's a logical and aware thinker compared to the rest and probably the smartest one there. No offence to the rest of the boys lol

Ethan shouldn't be so hard on himself, he would've felt like a genius if KSI was there 😂

that was sick can't wait for more keep it up 😂😂

The correct solution of question 13: The petals are worth x3 for the left flower, x2 for the middle flower and x1 for the right flower. Slide 1 = 2x3 + 2x2 + 2x1 = 12. Slide 2: 2x3 + 2x2 + 1x1 = 11. Slide 3: 2x3 + 2x2 + 0x1 = 10. Slide 4: 2x3 + 2x1 + 1x1 = 9. The pattern is that for each new slide, the value drops by 1. The correct answer must then be a slide adding up to 8. Thus slide A must be correct (2x3 + 0x2 + 2x1 = 8).

Ethan is hilarious, if you know 4 other words and they are not the answer, surely its the one you dont know

that 11+ prep coming in clutch💀

For the petals, you can have two alternating patterns so the first pattern shown in squares 1 and 3 is a decrease by 1 flower while another pattern in 2 and 4 is the right petal disappears from right to left. That would leave B as the answer.

I got you. 21:00 let's assume it's a plant and got eaten by a bug. Bug eats the right plant in 2 full steps. 1 leaf at a time. So till the 3rd step the bug ate the whole right plant. Then the bug goes to the centre plant and eats it(one leaf at a time), in the meantime the right plant starts growing back one leaf at a time. So till the 4th step bug has eaten 1 leaf from the centre plant and an older leaf has regenerated on the right plant. Thus in the 5th step the centre plant will be fully eaten and the right plant would've fully regenerated.

for the flower question: i was thinking of them more as shapes than flowers, so josh’s answer makes sense if you think the second shape is donating half of itself to the last shape (which is gone). Then the established rule is: shapes can only donate when the flower is completely gone. With this logic the last flower wouldn’t ever become whole because the second flower can’t donate it’s remaining half, and instead both flowers would fall. leaving B as the answer. But if you think of it as regenerating flowers (like a life cycle) A makes more sense. Depends on how you contextualize it.

The amount of time Behz looks over at Vik’s board 😂

JJ doing all of the solo reacts probably makes him think he doesn’t have to do these 😂

seeing vikks serious face makes me laugh

Sidemen always find a way to make me feel smart while entertaining me

I agree with Josh on the petal one. Did exactly the same.

I understand where Josh is coming from for 13, I did the same thing. The 6th petal is removed, and in the next image so is its counterpart. Next image the 6th and 4th petals are removed, so logically so would both of their counterparts. I kinda understand why A is right but tbh it's not a very good question when two of the answers make good sense. Imo, knowing how both work I still think B is the more logical option, moving the image perspective is a trick to me, not an intelligence test. Kinda why IQ tests mean nothing unless done by a professional and even then the results aren't important lmao. I got 12/15 so I'm a happy man today but question 13 is the only one I got wrong where I didn't slap my knee and go "oooooohhhhhhhh i seeeee" All good fun though, good video

Harry's been my favorite sidemen for years, and I'm happy to know that I got the same score as him!!!

23:00 Tobi looks like a man who is rethinking his life right now after getting a lower score than Harry on an IQ test lmaooo

I see what Josh meant: the pattern in the "stalk" was full, half, empty. In the first cycle, the 3rd stalk went full, half, empty. So logically, when the 2nd and 3rd stalk was half, the next would be both being empty ie Option B. But it is a series, and from the 3rd picture to the 4th picture there is no correlation. Hence, there must be a different reasoning. So B is not right.

A year late, but for the leaf question try looking at the sequence backwards starting from the answer, A. Going backwards, The way the petal movement works is ONLY the petal furthest to the right can move to the left by 1. If you start from A and work your way right to left it makes sense I could be wrong but idk

for 13, the pattern is basically this: - for every right side petal taken from a flower, give every other flower (except the flowers who's petal is being removed) a petal on the left side of their flower. - for every left side petal taken from a flower, give every other flower (except the flowers who's petal is being removed) a petal on the right side of their flower. - the right side petal is taken first from a flower, then the left side petal - petals taken from a flower start from the rightmost flower , go to the middle flower then go to the leftmost flower and then the cycle repeats from the rightmost flower.

Josh is right for the petal one, also feel like simon should include himself in the moresidemen videos as i feel like it would of been harder to get 14 with the pressure of time and everyone there ect

Simon is low-key the smartest. Maybe not mathematically like Vik, but he’s incredibly logical and quick witted, and thinks outside the box. When somebody says something, Simon would make a well made, well thought out joke quickly in response. That alone shows his capacity of brainpower.

i agree with josh on question 13 with the arrows, both patterns work perfectly fine, this is the issues with some questions on these IQ tests.

I feel like a lot of "IQ test" questions are faulty in that they are written as if there is a single difinitive answer when there really isn't. The first question, yeah, A was the definitive answer. The second question, no. Here's why each answer could be correct: A: the three entities are separate things with some unique qualities, so some amount of each circle will be non-overlapping. CD and LP overlap because they both have similar disc shape and the data is stored in a spiral shape. LP and Cassette overlap because they both store their data in analog. CD and Cassette overlap because they were both designed to be portable and were frequently played back on mobile systems. All three overlap because they all commonly store music files. You can come up with different reasons they overlap (e.g. Cassettes and CDs are commonly rewritable) but you can definitely come up with relationships that work. B: I'm personally finding it hard to come up with an explanation that I am happy with, but explanations surely can be made depending on how you interpret the question. Maybe something like each format relies on different technology. LP's are mechanical, cassettes are magnetic, CDs are digital. C: The diagram represents albums which were released while each medium was considered "standard." LPs existed before either of the other two, but had some overlap with cassettes. CDs overlapped with the end of cassettes, but LPs were out before CDs were invented. You could pose an argument that LPs and cassettes are still being released, but I'd counter with an argument that the diagram represents when the formats were "standard" and even though albums may continue to be released on a specific format that doesn't mean the format is standard. D: The size of the circle indicates the amount of time a certain format has existed. LPs are the large circle, cassettes the medium circle, CD's are the small circle. Basic as that, each circle represents the relationship of how long each format existed. You could say the overlapping nature represents an overlap in the time when they exist, I don't think that explanation is necessary. Anyway, that concludes my explanation. A meaningful IQ test either won't have this ambiguity or will score people based on their ability to find logical connections instead of asserting a single thing to be the difinitively correct answer.

Nah, i 100% agree with josh on The flowers, that makes perfect sense

The logic Josh has for the flower one was the same as mine I just thought that the pattern was the right side petal on the furthest right flower goes away then the left petal go away then it shows both the middle and right side flower have the right side petal missing and I thought the pattern repeated as in this time instead of only the right side flower both the middle and right side flower follow the pattern together

I'm 6 months late, but everyone's logic was so different from mine for the flowers, and I got it A. You have 3 flowers. The flowers are wilting/dying from right to left and then growing back. The flower doesn't start wilting until the flower to its right dies. Start with 3 healthy flowers (Left Mid Right), 1: LMR Healthy, 2: R starts to die, 3: R dies, 4: M starts to die and R starts to grow, 5: M dies and R blooms.

For question 13, I treated it like Binary numbers. Furthest right flower, each petal removed is +1. Middle flower, each petal is +2. So the pattern reads 0,1,2,3, then the answer is A cause removing the 2 middle petals = 4. None of the others do = 4. Ill explain firther if people still dont understand but Binary numbers is pretty fun to learn. '0's and '1's 😅

For the people struggling with the petal one, each individual flower has it's own 'life cycle' whereby it completely dies as well as completely reforms itself petal by petal directly following it's death, this begins after the flower to it's right dies (halfway point of the lifecycle). The 4th sequence in the pattern suggests this to be the case given the presence of the petal that had previously been removed from the third flower, thus suggesting a cycle pattern.

I’m glad Simon shared his score with us - smartest Sidemen but we been knew

This made me feel good about myself. Thanks side dawgs!

For the flower one, here’s MY OPINION (I may be wrong): Firstly, the far right flower, sheds one half off. Then, sheds another off. Next, the middle flower sheds one half off, BUT the previous flower has regrown one. From this, I assumed that the middle flower will then lose its other half, and then the far right flower will regrow another half. Therefore, A is the answer.

Played along myself and got 13, really entertaining and enjoyable to hear the logic of the others

Here is a possible explanation to 13. 1) Focus on just the flower on the right and count the petals. It goes 2,1,0,1 implying that the fifth picture will have 2 petals on the right most flower. 2) Once the flower on the right most has 0 petals, the middle flower starts losing petal which would mean in the fifth picture, the middle flower should have no petals. 3) If there were more pictures to this, I would imagine, the leftmost flower would lose petals once the middle flower reaches 0 petals.

To respond to question 13, which is a classic psychometric test question, the arrow on the left stays static the whole way through. That disregards C, D and E. The arrow on the right interchanges from whole, to half, to none, to half, to whole, which gives you the answer of A. The middle arrows show inconclusive patterns to draw a narrative from. Josh's argument would be valid if the first image didn't exist, but his logic doesn't follow the trend.

For the flower one, just imagine there's another stem next to the flower on the end, and you fill that stem up with the flower next to it. Then you repeat it with the second to the third flower. Eventually (in a 4 stem system) flower one would be empty and the other two would be full (with the fourth hidden one also full). I got 14 - I too didn't know the definition of that word.

can we just talk about how harry is smart but in a comedian type of way

Love vikks logic on the flower answer, got the same answer but thought of it in a completely different way.

For Q13, the way I visualised it was: each plant was following the same pattern (just starting with the rightmost stalk): both leaves on, right leaf off, left leaf off, left leaf back on, right leaf back on. The middle stalk just started this pattern 2 squares after the rightmost stalk!

the flower question: 1. In each stage half a leaf is lost on ONE flower 2. If a flower has lost both halves of its leaf it will then grow them back after each stage, but this does not interfere with the loosing of half a leaf on other flowers.

13 was dumb, because there are multiple ways to interpret that problem. I also got B, because it’s a repeating pattern. Following Josh’s logic, next one would be all 3 halved.

For the flower it's literally as someone named it "life cycle" as in they're all full until one is only half in the second pattern meaning it lost one petal, on the next pattern the right one lost all of its petals and by the time it grows one back in the last pattern, it's the turn of the middle flower to lose its petals, that's why the answer is A bc the logic sequel is that the middle one lose it second petal while the right one gets its other petal and become full again xD

In question 2, i feel like C would also be a possible correct answer, thinking that the box represented the music factor. Then an LP can be on both a CD and a Cassette. I kinda dont see how a Cassette and a CD should overlap and they should be equals.

For #2 i picked C because Cassette and CD shares a letter, CD and LP shares length but Cassette and LP shares nothing. For #6 I also picked C since hamster and mouse is roughly same size and cat and dog is roughly same size. The only one I got wrong and literally couldn't have gotten right was last one but tbf my native language isn't english so it doesn't surprise me...

We all expected Vik to carry and he did.

I did not expect to get 14 of them. I chose A for the flowers one (question 13) because the first flower is always fully intact, so that narrowed it down to A or B. Then I eliminated B because the third flower loses a "petal" twice, so it should gain a petal twice again

Vik is absolutely right about the flowers, just move leaves one by one (from right to left), moving them to the right to the next stalk (or off the screen when on the furthest stalk right). They don't move within the same stalk. 1. furthest leaf right moves to right (off screen) 2. second furthest leaf right moves right (off screen because it's the same stalk, can't move to another stalk so it's off) 3. third furthest leaf right moves to the next stalk on the right 4. fourth furthest leaf moves to the next stalk on the right, leaving no leaves on the second stalk and the two leaves moved from the second stalk to the furthest right, leaving two leaves on the furthest right = answer A. Or just be a mathematician and think of it like binary with three values per bit (i.e. ternary or trinary), each stalk being a bit and the number of leaves representing the bit value from 0-2, and do like a weird arithmetic bit shift right twice per bit. (yes I know that's not how it works) 222 -> 221 -> 220 -> 211 -> 202. Also, Josh's explanation of stalks with only one leaf "die" makes sense otherwise, but it doesn't explain the last one where a "dead" stalk gets a new leaf and then dies again. that's only thinking two steps at a time, not accounting for the whole sequence.

Jj is so smart for taking this test let’s go sideman

I just wanna say I LOVE these type of videos, KEEP IT UP

Again, Simon being the host giving the guys a chance 🤣🤣🤣🤣

For the flower/plant question, I viewed it as taking two cycles for the plant to fully die, and two cycles for it to fully regrow. As the third plant dies prior to the second one beginning to die, its first regrowth cycle is aligned with the second plant's first cycle of dying, therefore meaning A is the answer.

as someone already detailed in the comments these pattern recognition questions dont just have 1 awnser only because you dont have enough proof, but in case youre wondering the flower pattern (i also did what josh did) in the 3 flowers alligned: flower 3 LOSES half the other 2 remain » Flower 3 Loses other half, other 2 remain » flower 3 REGAINS 1 half back, flower 2 loses a half, flower 1 remains » (awnser wanted) Flower 3 regains 2nd half, flower 2 loses another half, flower 1 remains. It would continue to Flower 3 probably remains intact or loses another half, flower 2 regains 1 half, flower 1 loses a half.

On the one with the arrow flower plant type objects, I also chose B and went with the logic that the first square has 3 full ones, then the leftmost 2 are full and the rest are halved, then 2 full and the rest empty, then 1 full with everything else halved. So the answer by this logic is B. Leftmost one full, the others are empty.

9:21 Simon using Mr. Beast’s idea of incorporating the ad within his game is awesome to see come to fruition after he talked about it on his What’s Good? Podcast w/ Randy

Harry is like the topper of the class 😂😂

Probably overthought it, but question 13 can be thought of counting in ternary (base 3). Each flower represents a ternary digit (called a trit, and is the analogue of the binary digit called a bit). An empty flower corresponds to 0, half flower to 1 and full flower to 2. Then the sequence represents counting up by one. That is, in the question we are given, in order, the ternary numbers 000, 001, 002, 010 (which in decimal are 0*9 + 0*3 + 0*1 = 0, 0*9 + 0*3 + 1*1 = 1, 0*9 + 0*3 + 2*1 = 2, 0*9 + 1*3 + 0*1 = 3). The next number in the sequence is clearly 4 = 0*9 + 3*1 + 1, which has ternary representation 011. You don't need to go into all of the above to see the answer however - I didn't at first. If you're familiar with counting in binary on your fingers, I'd encourage you to think about how you can adapt it to this problem.

For the stem one, if you simply think of it as a stem losing/regrowing leaves, it becomes intuitive. By the pictures, the third stem loses a leaf, and then proceeds to lose another leaf. Next, the second stem loses a leaf and the third stem begins to grow a leaf back. Next, you can filter it down to few possibilities, the second stem will lose a leaf (since it is in that phase), and the third stem will continue growing its final leaf back (since it is in the growing phase), using that logic, it follows that the second stem would have no remaining leaves and the third stem will have both of its leaves fully grown, that leaves the only options to be A or D, but it cannot be D as that implies that the first stem would have lost both of its leaves in a single iteration, which is not possible. Finally, option A is left. Sorry for the long explanation, but it becomes extremely intuitive like this.

Bro ethan's laugh and overall energy gets me every time.

For Question 6 I am not native English speaker so I didn't quite get the sentence as it would sound if it was fully complete but I got the answer right just because in the the other last 3 there is at least one animal comparable to mouse or a cat, like B - Tiger (Cat), C - Hamster (Mouse), D - Guinea Pig (Mouse) so for me it didn't make sense why A was included which... in fact made the most sense to choose it.

The flower one goes as follows I think: The leafs fall off 1 by 1 from right to left, but once a flower is without leafs, the leafs start to grow back one by one.

For number 13, I understand Josh’s logic because I also put down the same answer, but the reason we got it wrong was because from picture to picture, only half of a petal is removed, but going from the last picture to the answer B, it removed 2 halves of a petal (or a full petal) so it doesn’t logically follow from the previous pictures.

These make me so happy, after a long day of school! Thank you Sidemen, haven’t missed a video in years!

For question 13.. I just saw a pattern box1 > box3 > box5 [removing 2 petals from right side to left side] And box2 > box4 [removing rightside petal from right to left] Thus making letter B as the answer for box5

When vik said people in the comments are gonna explain it really well but I think we are all as baffled as Behz 😂😂

Vikks laugh is so contagious😂😂

I agree with vik when it comes to the flowers. I've done an IQ test before and had a similar type of question. I defo see movement. The flowers are moving from left to right.

#13 is just as you’re moving to the left one disappears and u move to the left again another one disappears but if u move to the left again one disappears while the very first one reappears and when u move to the left on more time the whole middle disappears while the first two reappear

Alternative answers *2 = D* (Logic: You look at the sizes for each and stack them - Cassette

Ended up with 13/15. Got 5 and 6 wrong, I related the two animals to themselves rather than with the answer so reached Hamster / Dog and I totally forgot what pragmatic meant lol. For 13 I imagined the petals moving to the right if there was no stem to latch onto, so I reached answer A in that way. Really fun to go through these with the guys. I struggled a lot on the 1st cube, i had to pause for a bit to visualize it in my head properly, I imagine if I was in the seat with them I would have gotten it wrong.

Love these videos keep this up 🔝

The pain for the guys is hilarious lol 😂

My thought process for the flower one, was when you had a completely empty flower, the next petal you take away would then be added back but to the opposite side you took the petal away from. So the first one you had 3 full flowers, for the second one you took one petal away, the third one you took one petal away, so then on the fouth one you took one petal away from the right-hand side of the flower so you added it to the left-hand side of the flower, so the fifth one would be you took a petal away from the left-hand side, so it would be added back to the right-hand side, and so on.

You already know JJ would have guessed C for all of them 😂 😂 😂

I got 12 and for the leaves question vik is correct the leaves are moving right., 1st order - the far right branch is getting empty (which was shown in 2 steps) 2nd order the middle one is getting empty but when the moving right they have an empty branch to move rather than going away from the box the shifts to that) so in the next step the middle one will become empty and both leaves will shift to far right one., So option A shows that., As per the series . The 3rd order the far left brach will loose leaves and in first step one will move to the middle one., so the first will have 1, second will have one and third one will still have 2., also in the next step the first branch will become empty and both leaves will shift to middle one., so the first one will have none, the middle one will have 2, and third one will have 2. Hope the explanation was easy to understand.,

All the number questions were mad easy but as soon as the cube folding n flowers came up I was done for loooool😂😂😂😂

question 13 was literally binary code, this was the most obvious way of solving. Josh had a point but it could not be made up out of the recent figures. There was not enough information to confirm that it would happen since it also 'grows' back. With binary it is like 001 = 1, 010 = 2, 011 = 3, 100 = 4, 101 = 5, 110 = 6, 111 = 7 etc. This is the same in the picture actually.

22:26 How I worked that our is : Just looking at the 3rd stem so the order of the stems are : Opened - Halved - disappeared - Halved again - opened again So if u just see the 4th image then which is : opened - Halved - Halved (again) so the following will be Opened - disappeared - opened (again) Also only when the leaves on stem disappears then the stem before it changes that's why the 1st stem didn't changed and will change in the next iteration

Glazers out

The Last flower is the one you should notice first because it has the most changes happening to it and can tell you the most information. The last flower goes full, half, empty, half… then Full again. Based on this limited information of 4 pictures, this is the only sequence that logically follows. Starts from 1, goes down a half two times to reach 0, then goes up a half two times to reach 1 again. Now the second flower was full and then went to half, and from the first sequence we observed from the last flower, we know that after full, half… comes empty again. The only possible answer is A. The only other thing you had to consider was the possibility of the first flower going also down half in the last image, since going from full to half is something that happens in this sequence. However when you look at the options, only C has half in the first flower, but it can’t be the right answer since it also has half on the last flower which as we saw is supposed to be full. Hope this helps

For 13, I based off a 'One Movement' only. Meaning you can only make one move each time, options B, C, D and E have more than one move. Whereas for A, you only move one half to the right, the others removed the feather or/and moved it more than once. So that's where I think one move only comes into play.