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Math (Logic) Questions in Being a ♥♥♥ (all parts eventually)
EDIT:

The contents of the this thread for all tests are NOW available IN ORDER (below is not) in a guide.

So, if you want hints and/or full explanations of all the math logic problems (especially the super hard ones) just look in Guides for this game under Walkthroughs.


Currently (May 2025) the explanations only go up to the end of Episode 2. I'll add episode 3 when it's officially released. (If Dr. Pink Cake & team continue with the 'math tests' which I suspect he/they will. )

The logic problems are kinda fun puzzles to solve when they aren't driving you crazy!

Original post below:
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Knowing the answers doesn't help if you still don't understand WHY that was they were the correct answers. If you're like me, you want to understand them.

I was posting hints & answers for those stumped by the logic in another thread but that thread was locked.

I'm starting in the middle of Season II but I plan to reply and eventually post all of them. I give hints first and then cover any outright answers/ explanations with black 'spoiler' HTML code over them because sometimes we just want a push in the right direction.


Feel free to add your own explanations here (and save me the trouble) for earlier episodes.
Just label them for easier searching. Also, I do ask that you follow my format so those looking here just for a hint or a nudge FIRST and then black out the full explanation. We always kick ourselves when we realize that, sometimes, the answer was obvious... IF we didn't get locked into our way of approaching the problem.

As I love to say: NOTHING is OBVIOUS until....... AFTER .... you've figured it out! (Then things are obvious as hell.)
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Being a D*K Math Logic Answers Test #6 (episode 2)

I've only started with the hardest ones. Eventually I'll post them all by replaying the game. when I just decided there was a need for this. Sorry if that doesn't help you right now with earlier tests!

(These answers likely exist on YouTube but sometimes I want to skim and not sit through a video. So I figured these all out.)


Letter Questions on Math Test #6 Being a ♥♥♥

This question took a long time to figure out for me. I'm good with the rotation or position changing patterns but putting in letters throws me.

Here's the HINT to Math Test #6 - Question #6 then, below is the actual answer.

HINT: What number of letters do you have to count from the FIRST LETTER in the FIRST BOX to get to the LEFT first letter in the middle box? Don't get locked into thinking forwards for both letters.

HINT b: Then (and this is the tricky part) how many letters do you have to count to get the RIGHT letter in FIRST BOX to the RIGHT LETTER in the middle box. (Don't get stuck thinking one direction.

ANSWER: It's COUNT THREE for the LEFT letter, then COUNT BACK THREE for the second letter.

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Math Test #6 Question #7

This one doesn't seem quite fair because it doesn't have a pattern progression from the first box to the 2nd box regarding the blue shapes.

HINT #1 : I was looking for a pattern in the blue shapes/polygons and there just isn't a pattern there. That's what is throwing you. The only pattern progression is for the black dot.

HINT #2 Combine the first two boxes and see where the blue overlaps. Combine that with the pattern progression of the black dot.

Here is the full explanation of why correct answer looks the way it does.

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Full explanation:

Only where the blue shapes overlap (by mentally combining BOX ONE and BOX TWO) that space becomes white space in the 3rd BOX.

So, for the first row the only overlap is in the lower left corner which leaves the two blue squares touching corners in the last box. The black dot just moves counter-clockwise.

For the second row there is white space in the lower left and upper right. So, when blue overlaps blue that blue stays in place. But where blue overlap white space it becomes white. Again, the black dot just moves counterclockwise (if you can call it that in a square)

For the bottom row the overlap happens only in the lower left corner leaving the upper left blue square and lower right blue square. The dot simply and predictably moves to the right.

The black dots are only there to move and their existence in or out of the the blue spaces doesn't seem to affect anything regarding overlap.


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Math test #7

#1 HINT: Think backwards, note case pattern.

Answer:
It's just the alphabet backwards (which is hard to keep in mind since we're used to the pattern forward especially when reading the puzzle from left to right as we tend to do because it's usually a progression. Obviously every other letter changes to upper/lower case. Reading these kinds from right to left helps.


#2 HINT: A super simple progression, especially if you know the common lower value Roman Numerals.

ANSWER: ( X = 10 XI = 11 so thus XII = 12 in Roman Numerals)

#3 HINT: This looks like Roman Numerals but it's really just more of a symbol pattern.

The I just switches position from left to right with no I in the middle squares.

#4 HINT: Watch the pattern of movement of the black dot AND each set of three has a square.

ANSWER: The dot rotates counterclockwise and since they all rows have one black square it has to the black square (there are no other choices anyway) with the dot that has moved from right to left on the bottom.

#5 HINT: Don't think "progression" - think OVERLAP & result. (From now on consider OVERLAP as a possibility in some of them.)

ANSWER: (Where they overlap the colors cancel. OR... just think. It's whatever dots are there combined on a white field.)

As I said in the answers for test six that these are fair since there is not a pattern from left to right.

#6 HINT: Look for overlaps between box #1 & 2 and then the result.

ANSWER: ( Row 1 Overlap left box (one dot) with middle box (three dots up & down).... overlap have blanked leaving you with two dots. Same for row two, just a different pattern. Row three is just more complex but the same thing. All that's left is no middle column dots, two left lower column dots and a high & low right column dots.)

#7 HINT: Think overlap & what changes if.

ANSWER: Where the red squares do NOT overlap you see them all, If they do, the square goes blue. Thus, on the bottom row, the two red squares will overlap in the middle leaving you with two blues up top and one red.

#8 HINT a: Look at the movement pattern of the squares.

HINT b: They can go below the line, rotating counterclockwise. (Why is it always counterclockwise?)

ANSWER: Each top red square moves one space to the right. Each bottom red square moves one space to the left. If they get to the end they jump to above/below the line and then keep moving counterclockwise. So, one more movement of the bottom row middle puts one red square top left, one square top right and one square bottom right.

#9 HINT a: Just think pattern and follow it.

HINT b: The middle box seems arbitrary. It seems to have no effect on what the final box should be.

ANSWER: Just pick the box that flips the colors from top to bottom for red & blue from the first box to the last box. The middle purple colors are just there to confuse you. Again, it's not really fair.

10. HINT a: Your first impulse on this is correct! Those letters are familiar!

HINT b: It's not a letter count or progression.

HINT c: Think of the school name.

ANSWER: The final box should just be an upper case T but they put all the letters to help you realize it's the school's name. Of course the cases alternate with a big T, little e and big R)
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Math Test # 8 Being a ♥♥♥


Midterm Math Test #8


#1 HINT: Think multiply

HINT: If you don't want to use a calculator think of it as two problems.
Take the ten out of 12 then think 5 x 10 (easy) + x 5


ANSWER: Multiply 2nd box for a row by first box. That's the answer

#2 Similar as above.

HINT: Remember a negative X a negative = positive. (double negatives cancel out) For example, "I'm NOT UNWELL = I'm feeling well."
Positives don't need a + sign. We just know they are positives.
Positive X negative = negative.


ANSWER: Multiply 1st & 2nd boxes, apply sign rules.
(e.g. 12 x -5 = 60, positive 12 x negative 5 = negative so -60)


(-3 x - 14 = + 42 (just 42)

#3 Same idea as above just substitute Roman Numerals for regular numbers.

HINT: It's not the first two boxes.

HINT: Think last box times middle box. ( VI (6) x 3 = 18)

ANSWER: X = 10 So, what times 2 = 10 ? So... 5... but Roman numeral V for five because the pattern shows if the middle number is a digit then the far left and right boxes are Roman numerals, so the answer = V .

#4 Hint: Think of what number of the alphabet the letter is.
Hint: Substitute that number for the letter.
Hint: Combine boxes.

ANSWER: Example: B = 2 so top row left box = 12, A = 1 so, middle box of top row is 12. Combine for 37.

Last row: A = 1 so 18, + 11 =


#5 Hint: Count from 2nd letter to 3rd letter in each row.

Hint: A blank box is essentially like a zero.

Hint: Adding nothing to nothing = nothing

Answer: From O to T = 4. Next row (I to N is just 3)
but the blank is like zero. So, it has to be blank because G isn't an answer option.


#6 Hint: This is unfair because we've been taught to see patterns across, not up & down.

Hint: Combine top two boxes per column.
Hint: But, there's a final 'rule' for the top row red dot.

Answer: A top row red dot (only) goes down and to the left by one. (like it did at the bottom of the left column.)
That's the only explanation I can figure out for why A is the correct answer.


#7 (Note: I had to look this one up, so don't feel bad. I tried rules for a few hours.)

HINT: Note which way and how far red and blue dots move and if they reach the end of a row.

HINT: Note what happens to dots that land on black squares.

HINT: Note that dots can disappear but later reappear.

ANSWER: Red dots move 1 square to the right, blue dots move 2 squares to the right, and they'll move to the leftmost square of the following row if they've reached the end of the row. If they land on a black square, the dot is invisible.

#8 Finally, a reasonable problem again.
HINT: Think overlap.

HINT: Notice what happens to overlapping patterns.

Answer: Mentally overlap first box and middle box for any row. Note that the third box in the row is missing dots where dots have overlapped. The non-overlapping dots stay in the final pattern. Since the bottom middle overlaps with left top dot of the bottom left box, that dot vanishes and leaves you with box B.

#9.
HINT: Notice the clockwise (finally) rotation of the line.

HINT: Notice what happens to overlapping dots when you mentally combine their locations from the left to the middle box.

ANSWER: When the dots don't overlap they add. When they do overlap they vanish. So, the answer must continue the rotation to across (horizontal) and one overlapping dot disappears leaving you with answer B yet again.

#10 You're going to kick yourself when you finally figure this one out because it's so obvious. I know I just did because I was overthinking it. Looking at the last row, you've likely guessed the answer even if you (like I was) unsure (initially) how they got to it.


HINT: The pattern continues across and down to the following rows.

HINT: It's a phrase you're familiar with from the game.

Answer: If you read it going across, it's "BEIng a ♥♥♥"

Remember: NOTHING is obvious... until AFTER you see it.
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Just food for thought... Maybe consider make this into a guide?
I think that you should definitively make it a guide because otherwise, this thread will eventually lose popularity and end up being forgotten behind a large number of new ones. If you make it a guide, it will stay availlable to struggling players for as long as the game is on Steam.
Skittles Apr 7 @ 11:39am 
Math Test #1 (I told you I'd go back and add the earlier tests. At the time I figured they'd ALL be that easy. Hah! )

Math Test #1

On these early tests most answers all so obvious they don't need hints. I'm just adding these to be thorough.

1. HINT: Super obvious.

2. HINT: Odd numbers

3. HINT: Again, too obvious.

HINT: They are all the same.

4. HINT: Notice the rotation.

Just continue the pattern of rotation.

5. HINT: How much does each square go up by?

HINT: Just by one.

6. HINT: Think overlap.

Overlap the first two squares. The third is the result.
Skittles Apr 7 @ 11:58am 
Math Test #2

#1. Obvious pattern.

2. Hint: What did you do to the 1st number to get to the 2nd?

Hint: Continue that strategy.

Answer: In the top row you added 3 to 2 and got 5, then you added 3 to 5 and got 8 .
Same for row two and then row three. Just add three.


#3 HINT: The top two rows have something in common.

HINT: So the bottom row must continue that pattern.

ANSWER: All rows MUST have two blanks and one square
outline. So, just pick the square outline.
(They are also in a different position each time.)


#4. HINT: Very similar to question #3

ANSWER: The only shape missing from the pattern
is a black square outline. Again, always they are in
different rows.


#5 HINT: Super obvious because the first two rows are nothing but blank squares.

ANSWER: So, of course, the answer is also just a blank square.

#6 HINT: Just a variation of two earlier problems.

ANSWER: This time the pattern is one black square (instead of a square outline) and two blank squares.

#7 HINT: Note the pattern of black squares rotates.

ANSWER: So, the last row has to be rotated back to a 'diamond -like' oriented square. (Some people call a titled square a 'diamond' but it's still just a square.

#8 HINT: What did you do to the first two boxes to get to the third box?

ANSWER: You add both boxes so 2 + 2 = 4, 3 + 3 = 6 and 4 + 4 = 8 of course.

#9. HINT: The top two rows sure seem to end the same way.

ANSWER: So, the 3rd row must do the same. It seems to be 1st box, minus the 2nd box = 0. So, pick 0 again.

10: HINT: Try adding up the boxes going across.

HINT: What do they add up to?

ANSWER: So, what is the only number you can add to the bottom row that will add to 6?
Math Test #3

#1. Hint: Think rotate / alternate.

Hint: Rotate 90 degree or just vertical then horizontal.

Answer: So, of course the answer is a horizontal bar.


#2 Hint: Think overlap.

Hint: Overlap first box in the row with the second box.
Also, all the answers are the same.


Answer: It's just the plus sign / cross of course.


(I'm only explaining every single one to be thorough)


3. Hint: Think overlap again.

Hint: Overlap first box in the row with the second box.


Answer: So, if you overlap two vertical lines you
get a vertical line. Just like you got a horizontal
line in the top row.




4. Hint: Think subtraction.

Hint: Subtract the 2nd box in a row from the 1st box.

Answer: 4 - 1 = 3, then 3 -2 = 2, finally 1 - 0 = 1

5. Hint: Think addition.

Hint: Add the 1st box in a row to the 2nd box in the row,
the 3rd box in the row is the result.


Answer: 1 + 5 = 6, then 3 + 1 = 4, finally 4 + 6 = 10


#6. Hint: Think rotation.

Hint: See how the line rotates from 9:00 / 3:00 to about 10:00 / 5:00
(Or half of a quarter turn, so about 22.5 degrees)


Hint: Just continue that in the 3rd row.

Answer: So, of course it's the bar going from upper left corner tot he
lower right corner.


7. Hint: Think overlap again.

Hint: Overlap first box in the row with the second box.



Answer: So, of course, you get the plus sign / cross.

8. Hint: This one is not entirely fair because we've only been show patterns that go across.

Hint: Look for patterns in columns up & down

Hint: What did you do to the first box in the left column to get to the 2nd box?

Answer: Figure out what you added to the top box in each column and that's the answer to the bottom box in the column. Add 1 in left column, add 2 in middle column and add 3 in right column.


9. Hint: Think subtraction of 1st box to 2nd in each row. OR Think addition of last & middle boxes to add to 1st (left
most box.

Hint: Just continue that in the 3rd row.

Answer: So 10 - 5 = 5, 3 - 1 = 2, and 9 - 9 = 0


10. Hint: Think multiply.

Hint: Multiply the 1st box in a row to the 2nd box in the row,
the 3rd box in the row is the result.


Answer: So 1 x 5 = 5, 3 x 1 = 3, and 3 x 5 = 15
Skittles Apr 13 @ 5:12pm 
Thanks for the encouragement to make it a guide. I've never made one, but how hard can it be? Thanks!
Skittles Apr 13 @ 5:13pm 
Math Test # 4. Being a ♥♥♥.


1. Hint: Think overlap.

Hint: Overlap first two boxes of each row.
Note what happened when dots lined up.


Answer: The third box is the result of the overlap of the first two boxes EXCEPT dots that overlap and line up cancel out which explains the blank box in
row one. No overlapping boxes in 2nd row. But the third row will cancel the middle dots leaving just the dot on the left, thus answer = B.


2. Hint: This is similar to the previous problem #1.

Hint: Except now a blank white rectangle is overlapped in the third row.

Answer: So, any dot on the right will disappear like the dot from the first box of row two. Since they will all line up in the middle the only answer is three central dots cut in hal = answer D.

#3. Hint: Think rotation of the dots.

Hint: The dots seem to rotate one space to the left or down in a counter-clockwise manner.

Answer: So, in row one the left dot in the 1st box in row one goes down (left of the | line in the center) and the right of the | dot goes left leaving two dots in each column in the 2nd box of row one. Then one more goes left and the rest go down which explains the RIGHT box in row one. Same pattern for row two. So, the only thing that can happen to the dots is for the left dot to go down one, the right dot goes left leaving you with the pattern in answer A.

4. Hint: Think overlap.

Hint: Think overlap and cancel to blank.


Answer: In row 1 the first and second boxes overlap perfectly and cancel leaving a blank. In row two only the dots overlap and cancel leaving the line. So, in row three the lin and right dot both overlap to cancel leaving only a left upper dot seen in answer D.

5. Hint: Note rotation and pattern change.

Hint: The black line rotates to the right by a quarter turn (90 degrees) and a dot gets added in the left corner.

Answer: Either way the only pattern that accounts for the black line rotation and adding a dot is answer B.


6. Hint: This is easier if you think from the right box to the left box.

Hint: Note the pattern change for each letter and number separately.

Hint: The letters go backward in the alphabet but the numbers keep increasing from left to right. [spo/iler]

Answer: So, P comes before Q and O before that for row 1. (JKL backwards & 5,6,7) So what comes BEFORE T? The letter S. (lowercase) and what number comes after 3, of course 4. Thus the answer is A = 4s.

7. Hint: Look for a pattern in the amount between numbers and between letters.

Hint: Also note how letter case changes.

Hint: Each letter and number are the same amount apart.

Answer: You add two to each number and two places down the alphabet for each letter. So, 1 (+2) = 3, c (+2 letter places) = e, but it has to be upper case to match the pattern. Again for 3 -> 5 and E (f.. g)

Same pattern for row 2 so 4 but I'm too lazy to write it all down. Last row, 3 - 5 -> 7 and A goes to c .. goes to e but upper case. 7E which is answer C.



8. Hint: Similar to last problem.

Hint: However, first & second letters for each box go different directions. It's easier to get the pattern working from right to left for the 2nd letter per box.

Answer: So, the first letter skips ahead by one, so A goes past b to C then past d to E, the 2nd letter per box goes backward one space. So, reading from the right it J, K, L (all lowercase) Same for 2nd row, K, L, M, (from right to left) F...(g) H, (i) J. (I used upper case because they're more easy to read but all the answers are in lowercase letters.)

So, for answer, 2nd letter in last box must be the letter before C, so.. B (b) the f... (skip g) H. So the answer is HB = hb (answer choice b)


9. Hint: There's really only one pattern you need to note here and it has nothing to do with the middle row.

Hint: Compare the bottom number in each column to the top number. That's really all you need.

Answer: The bottom number for each column is always ONE LESS than the top and that's all you need to know to solve it. In column 1, 44 is one less than 45. In column two 26 is one less than 27. Thus, for column three only 08 is one less than 09. That's all you really need to solve it.


I still don't understand how the middle row was derived. The numbers for top two rows are all multiples of 9. However the bottom breaks that pattern. If you understand how the pattern for the middle row was arrived at please post it below.

10. This one is so obvious you don't need a hint, just follow the pattern. I guess after the hard ones they gave the players a break.
Skittles Apr 13 @ 5:47pm 
Originally posted by spartakisteqc:
I think that you should definitively make it a guide because otherwise, this thread will eventually lose popularity and end up being forgotten behind a large number of new ones. If you make it a guide, it will stay availlable to struggling players for as long as the game is on Steam.

Thanks for the suggestion and the great idea! I'm doing just that...right now.
Skittles Apr 13 @ 5:56pm 
Originally posted by spartakisteqc:
I think that you should definitively make it a guide because otherwise, this thread will eventually lose popularity and end up being forgotten behind a large number of new ones. If you make it a guide, it will stay availlable to struggling players for as long as the game is on Steam.


Originally posted by JadenVox:
Just food for thought... Maybe consider make this into a guide?

I really appreciate that suggestion. It's a great idea. I'm doing it right now. Thanks, as a guide it will be easier to find and thus will help far more people. Thanks again!
Good Luck!

Just took a look. I don't know if you can edit the name, but I recommend you change Episode 1 and 2 to Season 1 and 2?
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