For this puzzle me and my roommate Maria tried basically the strategy of Visual Reasoning explained in the McKim reading: "Images in Action". We followed each one of the possible paths in which the persons of the exercise would get to their respective homes. This way we noticed when they were crossing on each other's ways and kind of tried several times until we figured out the way of using all the space available on the puzzle area and doing it the correct way. It took us about 25 min to get it done, and we colaborated with each other's work. We also did some deductive reasoning when we were going from the abstract idea of getting each one of the guys to their homes to a concrete idea of actually figuring out the solution for this puzzle.
With the Cat's puzzle we just used one of the most common operations in visual thinking: the Finding strategy. We basically looked at the cat's image and saw if the shape of triangles was concealed in the cat's body parts. Then we counted all the triangle shapes we could observe and when we added up our totals Maria had 2 triangles less than I... this was because she didn't notice the 4 tiny right triangles in the cat's eyes. She only counted the 2 regular triangles which represented the contour of the eyes of the cat.
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