Sequence Puzzle

Factual Questions
1

WARNING. I DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS PUZZLE.
I hope this doesn’t turn out to be another “gry” puzzle.
Can anyone help? What is the next sequence in this puzzle? (6X6 GRID, ‘_’ = empty square)
Sequence one
_ O _ O _ _
O O O X X _

  • O X O X X
    O O _ _ X O
    X O X _ X X
    _ _ O _ _ _

Number 2
_ O _ _ X _
O O _ X X _
_ O _ O X X
O O O _ X O
_ _ _ _ X X

Number 3
_ O X _ _ _
O _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ O X X
O O _ _ X O
_ _ _ _ X X

Number 4
???

2

I’d love to help, but I’m not sure if the Xs are offense or defense.

3

Golly.

It would be stupid of me to assume that each block is identical, wouldn’t it? Because that would be stupid. And not even remotely puzzle-like.

<< courtesy bump anyway >>

4

With the x’s indicating new pieces of a certain number of turns in youth.
It’s interesting to not that a new piece gets added, but overall, the pieces on the board are disappearing, extermities first.
Fiddling around with it now to see if I can figure out the rules.

5

Seem to be a couple of errors though. Could be I’m not following it mentally right, or not doing the wrap-around write, or iterating through the board wrong (left-right? up-down? down-up? right-left? recursively applied squares?)
Animating it seems to help.


#/usr/bin/perl
@1=qw(_O_O__ OOOXX_ _OXOXX OO__XO XOX_XX __O___);
@2=qw(_O__X_ OO_XX_ _O_OXX OOO_XO ____XX ______);
@3=qw(_OX___ O_____ ___OXX OO__XO ____XX ______);
while (1)
{
	foreach (1..3)
	{
		system("clear");
		print join("
",@{$_});
		sleep 1;
	}
	sleep 5;
}

Writing a quickie tree of life to see if how a matrix of size 6x6 with the settings in the first one ends up. Going to trace through it in various directions too.
Current guess at the rules:
1- 2die
3- create
4- create? constant?
5- constant
6- 8die

6

Grr. Where’d those extra spaces in the “code” section come from?
And where’d the ! after my # sign go? :slight_smile: Must’ve cut n pasted it incorrectly?

7

I too though it was tree of life. I haven’t figured anything out yet. I also want to check the ‘blank’ squares to, as my first impulse is to ignore them.