Pipe Puzzle practice
Logical reasoning · 10 questions · 4 minutes
Test Partnership describes the task as: Re-arrange the pipes to connect the two end points.
This page plays it at the real length, with questions that adapt to your answers.
- A 5 by 5 board holds two pipe ends, some grey blocks and a set of pipe pieces.
- Click or tap two pipes to swap their places. The pipe ends and grey blocks never move.
- Swap pipes until one continuous pipe connects the two ends.
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Re-arrange the pipes to connect the two end points. The clock starts when you press start.
What Pipe Puzzle measures
Pipe Puzzle is one of Test Partnership's two logical reasoning games. Test Partnership lists it at 10 questions in 4 minutes and says it assesses logical reasoning, spatial scanning, visual memory and flexibility of closure. Like every MindmetriQ game, it adapts: harder or easier questions follow your answers, with a short time limit on each question.
How this practice version works
Every board is generated from a solved route and then scrambled, so it always has a solution in a few swaps; boards get longer routes as you answer correctly. Each board has 24 seconds. Test Partnership publishes the total time but not the limit per question, so we split it evenly. Difficulty runs from level 1 to 5: one step up after a right answer, one step down after a wrong one. Your first full game is free; the results show accuracy, average time and the highest level you reached.
How to do well
Trace the route from both ends at once and find the gap. Then look for the piece with the right shape elsewhere on the board and swap it in.
Pipe Puzzle questions
Can I rotate pipes in Pipe Puzzle?
No. You can only swap two pieces. Pipe ends and grey blocks are fixed.
Does the number of swaps matter?
Test Partnership does not publish how it scores swaps. Our results show your swaps next to the number the board needed so you can see how directly you solved it.
Source: Test Partnership, game-based assessments (game names, times, question counts and abilities), and the free demo linked there (instructions).