Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP232 BP233 BP234 BP235 BP236  *  BP238 BP239 BP240 BP241 BP242

less, anticomputer, subjective, culture, invalid, traditional

Peter Shanahan

Left-sorted Bongard Problems have the keyword "easy" on the OEBP.

Right-sorted Bongard Problems have the keyword "hard" on the OEBP.

"Easy" means easy for human beings to solve, not computers.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP496 BP497 BP498 BP499 BP500  *  BP502 BP503 BP504 BP505 BP506

spectrum, subjective, meta (see left/right), links, keyword, sideless

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Aaron David Fairbanks

Left-sorted Bongard Problems have the keyword "nice" on the OEBP.

Right-sorted Bongard Problems have the keyword "less." They are not necessarily "bad," but we do not want more like them.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP498 BP499 BP500 BP501 BP502  *  BP504 BP505 BP506 BP507 BP508

subjective, meta (see left/right), links, keyword, oebp, right-finite, left-it, feedback, time

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Aaron David Fairbanks

Bongard Problems sorted left have the keyword "unwordable" on the OEBP.

"Unwordable" does not just mean convoluted, that is, involving a long description. "Unwordable" also does not just mean hard. Unwordable Bongard Problems are instead those Bongard Problems whose solutions tend to occur to people nonverbally before verbally. The typical "unwordable" Bongard Problem solution is not too difficult to see, and may be easy to describe vaguely, but hard to pin down in language.

The solution title given on the OEBP for "unwordable" pages is often something vague and evocative, further elaborated on in the comments. For example, the title for BP524 is "Same objects are shown lined up in both 'universes' vs. the two 'universes' are not aligned." If someone said this, it would be clear they had seen the answer, even though this is not a clear description.

Bongard Problems have been sorted here based on how hard they are to put into words in English. (See keyword culture.) It may be interesting to consider whether or not the same choices would be made with respect to other languages.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP501 BP502 BP503 BP504 BP505  *  BP507 BP508 BP509 BP510 BP511

notso, subjective, meta (see left/right), links, keyword, sideless

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Aaron David Fairbanks

Left examples have the keyword "experimental" on the OEBP.

Right examples have the keyword "traditional" on the OEBP.

Experimental BPs push the boundaries of what makes Bongard Problems Bongard Problems.

Traditional BPs show some simple property of black and white pictures. The OEBP is a place with many wild and absurd Bongard Problems, so it is useful to have an easy way to just find the regular old Bongard Problems.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP545 BP546 BP547 BP548 BP549  *  BP551 BP552 BP553 BP554 BP555

subjective, meta (see left/right), links, keyword, left-it

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Aaron David Fairbanks

This is the "harder version" of BP505.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP796 BP797 BP798 BP799 BP800  *  BP802 BP803 BP804 BP805 BP806

hard, less, abstract, math, subjective, challenge, right-unknowable, collective, experimental, finishedexamples

Aaron David Fairbanks

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP807 BP808 BP809 BP810 BP811  *  BP813 BP814 BP815 BP816 BP817

easy, fuzzy, abstract, notso, stretch, anticomputer, subjective, invalid, experimental, funny, dithering

Aaron David Fairbanks

Right examples have the keyword "hardsort" on the OEBP.

Contrast "hardsort" to infodense, where examples have a high amount of information, but perhaps after parsing all the information in the examples it is easy to sort them.

BPs labelled "hardsort" are likely to be labelled hard, but perhaps not--e.g. in BP323 the answer is easy to guess, but laborious to verify.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP859 BP860 BP861 BP862 BP863  *  BP865 BP866 BP867 BP868 BP869

subjective, meta (see left/right), links, keyword

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Aaron David Fairbanks

Left examples have keyword "distractingworld" on the OEBP.

This is different than the kind of distraction mentioned at noisy, which means there are details that are irrelevant to the solution changing between examples.

To label a BP "distractingworld" is to judge that the type of examples are more specific than should have been necessary to communicate the same general solution idea--this involves separating out which ideas are the nice ideas the BP really ought to have been about, and which ideas seem unimportant and irrelevant. On the other hand, to label a BP "noisy" is just to notice there are extra properties varying that are independent of the solution property.

Distractingworld BPs are often arbitrary.

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP860 BP861 BP862 BP863 BP864  *  BP866 BP867 BP868 BP869 BP870

BP1105 was created as an extreme example of this. All images in that BP show the same distractingly detailed background, irrelevant to the solution.

stub, fuzzy, abstract, subjective, meta (see left/right), links, keyword

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Aaron David Fairbanks

Or, "evokes idea of symmetry (see BP760) vs. not so," which is also a solution for BP847. - Aaron David Fairbanks, Jul 29 2020

Adjacent-numbered pages:
BP864 BP865 BP866 BP867 BP868  *  BP870 BP871 BP872 BP873 BP874

abstract, spectrum, anticomputer, subjective, concept, perfect

Leo Crabbe