One user claims the answer is always — another swears by “count the intersections, modulo 3” — a third writes, “I have a PhD in topology and this test is nonsense” — and then someone replies with a single link to a Google Drive folder named “matrigma_solutions_final_FINAL(2).pdf” that’s already been deleted by Reddit admins.

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