strange puzzle (1 Viewer)

[pennstater]

ok, im not very clear minded, but are you saying that what we are seeing isn't actually there?

 

[Reddoctober]

the brown piece maybe. rotated four spaces leftward, one space southward. red piece and green swap positions.

 

[bclemms]

After blowing it up in paint and using the diagonal lines, the top line on the two triangles slope at a different angle. Even though the difference is very slight it doesn't take much to get one square out of it.

If that isn't it then it has to do with the two triangles being two different sizes.

 

[pennstater]

What the heck is that in your avatar?

It has mouse ears, human face, and a dog/piglet body

 

[CT Saints Fan]

After blowing it up in paint and using the diagonal lines, the top line on the two triangles slope at a different angle. Even though the difference is very slight it doesn't take much to get one square out of it.

If that isn't it then it has to do with the two triangles being two different sizes.

Your first answer is correct. For example, look at the top picture. The vertical line of the red triangle starts at the bottom (exactly on a gray line) and goes up 3 squares and ends exactly at an intersections of gray lines.

Now follow that same vertical gray line down to the bottom picture. From the bottom up, it has a blank square, a gold piece, and a red piece. Look closely at the red piece, it does not end exactly on the intersection of gray lines, it extends ever so slightly into the square above it.

Thus the answer is that the overall outer shape is NOT identical between the 2 pictures, and the difference is equal to the blank square.

 

[Sabine]

The triangles don't have the same angles. The red triangle is more acute which, when placed at the acute end of the pattern, creates a concave line across the top of the pattern, and just the opposite in the bottom pattern when the smaller triangle is placed at the acute end.

Not sure I used the correct terms, but I think that's what creates the space. In other words, the patterns look like triangles but they're not. The line across the top is not straight, but has an angle in it.

 

[Sabine]

Oops, too late.