GALENE: the hidden routes test

An untimed online test of fluid reasoning, from the GALENE research edition G0.4: 40 problems in four families of ten (destination, route building, route twins and single repair). Two hidden gates, M and N, each rearrange the windows of a board; each problem shows a few exact observations of what some routes do, and asks for the one choice of six that every pair of gate arrangements fitting them guarantees. Every problem has exactly one such choice, proven by an exhaustive computer check of every gate pair. No special knowledge is needed: all the rules are given.

Each attempt draws its 40 problems from a bank of 400: two with five windows and eight with six in each family, none of which you have been shown before. They come one at a time. Choose A to F and lock your answer, and the next problem appears; a locked answer cannot be changed, and you cannot go back. If you cannot decide, you may leave a problem unanswered (it scores no point). Each family opens with its task and a worked example, and the rules of the routes are one click away throughout. After the 40th answer, your result and certificate appear at once.

GALENE is untimed. From the moment you begin, your attempt stays open for 90 days: work in as many sittings as you like, on any device, with your private link. Each answer is locked on the server as you give it, and the next problem appears; after the 40th, your result and certificate appear at once. An attempt still open after 90 days is scored with the answers locked by then, and the problems not reached score no point.

Yes: up to ten attempts, each on forty problems you have never been shown. Every attempt draws its problems from a bank of 400, never one you have met before, under this email or another registered with the same name and year of birth, so what you learned on one attempt does not carry its answers to the next. A new attempt can begin 90 days after your previous one was submitted, and one attempt is open at a time. Every attempt has its own fee and its own certificate, and your best result counts for the societies. Register every attempt with the same email. Only first attempts go into the norms data.

The US$50 fee, paid through PayPal before the attempt opens, covers one attempt: the online test on new problems, its scoring, your result with its PDF certificate, and the review of one society application. Each retake has its own fee. Admission as a full member of a society carries no further fee.

GALENE is a research edition. Its provisional model norms M0.2 place raw scores 7 to 39 between IQ 72 and 248 (SD 15), using a model whose item difficulties are assumed, with a guessing floor of 1 in 6: no norming sample has been tested yet, so a score is a provisional position on the GALENE scale, not a percentile of the population, and no percentile is reported. The model error is about 8 to 9 IQ points from about IQ 120 to 230. Raw scores of 0 to 6 lie at the level of guessing and get no IQ, and a perfect score is placed at IQ 258 by the model's half-point convention. Each attempt's problems are drawn from the bank and are not yet equated. The norms will be replaced by empirical norms as results come in.

Yes. IQ 147 or higher meets the criterion of the Nereid Society, and the fee covers the review of your application. IQ 160 meets that of the Mesopelagic Society, whose membership carries a one-time fee, and IQ 190, 205 and 220 those of the Aphotic, Hadal and Exocosm Societies. Associate membership of the Nereid Society (IQ 135 to 146) and subscription to the Aphotic Society (IQ 180 to 189) carry a one-time admission fee. Your best attempt counts.

The answer keys never leave the server, and your result never shows which problems you solved. Each attempt's problems are drawn on the server, and only the problem on screen ever reaches your browser: the next one comes after you lock your answer, and a retake is always on problems you have never been shown. Each problem is drawn on the screen with a faint watermark of your name and certificate ID. While a problem is on screen, the test page records leaving the test window, screenshot shortcuts (Print Screen, Windows+Shift+S, Command+Shift+3, 4 or 5), printing (Ctrl+P or Command+P), copy, right-click and drag attempts, attempts to paste into the answer fields (pasting is switched off), and AI assistant add-ons that insert themselves into the page; the server keeps its own times (when each problem was shown and when its answer was locked) and notes right answers given moments after a long absence. The record is sealed when you submit, and its fingerprint is printed on your certificate. None of this changes a score: the author reviews it before any society admission. The author's integrity report of each attempt lists all of it, problem by problem. An untimed test cannot rule out every form of help, which is why you declare that you will work alone, and why the author reviews every result before it counts for a society.

Your private link (shown when your test is ready, and kept in this browser) reopens your test on any device, at the problem you have reached. If you lose it, use “Recover my test” with the PayPal Transaction ID from your receipt and the email you registered with. Every locked answer is on the server.