How Resemble works
Resemble is only in the six-game version of Cognify. You mentally rotate the image on the left, then replicate it on the right.
The image, called the Objective, is reported to be a pattern of coloured pieces, and you rebuild it in an empty grid with the blocks provided, placing and rotating them. Some Objectives carry a rotation instruction of 90, 180 or 270 degrees, so you build the turned version rather than a copy. The game is reported to run 9 rounds in 3 minutes, with less time and harder rotations as it goes on.
How to rotate the pattern
Move one landmark, then build around it:
- Read the rotation instruction before you place anything. A perfect copy in the wrong orientation is still wrong.
- Pick one landmark, such as a corner piece or a distinctive colour, and work out where it lands. Build outwards from it.
- A quarter turn clockwise: the top row becomes the right-hand column, read top to bottom.
- A half turn: the top-left corner swaps with the bottom-right, and the pattern ends up upside down and back to front.
- Three quarter turns clockwise is one quarter turn anticlockwise: the top row becomes the left-hand column, read bottom to top.
Worked example
A 3 by 3 pattern has three filled squares: the top-left corner, the square to its right and the square below it, an L tucked into the top-left corner. The instruction is 90 degrees clockwise.
The top row becomes the right-hand column, so the two filled top-row squares become the top two squares of the right-hand column. The square below the corner, in the left column, moves to the middle of the top row. The result is an L tucked into the top-right corner.
Tips for the real Resemble
- Read the instruction on every round. What you are asked to build is reported to change during the game.
- Learn in the tutorial how to place and turn blocks, so the clock goes on thinking rather than controls.
- Do the turn in your head. Tilting your head or your device is slower and easy to get backwards.
- Check your invitation. Resemble is only in the six-game version.
Practise Resemble on CogniPrep
Our Resemble is a simpler version: 15 figures on a 10-minute clock, on grids that grow from 3 by 3 to 5 by 5. Every figure comes with a clockwise turn of 90, 180 or 270 degrees, and you tap single squares to fill them rather than placing coloured blocks. Submit moves you on, with no going back. The score out of 100 is half squares placed correctly, about a third figures rebuilt exactly, and the rest speed. It trains the rotation itself, not the block handling of the real game.