> I guess I have to just rationalise it as "Hey, it's an internet IQ test. 
> It doesn't actually *work* or anything..."

Exactly, those kind of shape matching tests are everywhere, I really doubt 
how good they are actually judging intelligence.  If you've done a handful 
of them (and especially if you've discussed the solutions with others) 
you'll remember the basic principles they often use and will be more likely 
to solve other ones.

I still remember a maths test we did at school, some of the questions were 
about getting the next number in the sequence, the usual stuff.  Then there 
was something like "3,3,5,4,4,3,5,5,..." and lots of people guessed (some 
correctly) but nobody figured it out.  Since that day when the teacher told 
us the answer and we all went "doh!", remembering that sequence has helped 
me solve several similar problems in other tests.  I would only call that 
intelligence if you figured it out the first time on your own with no prior 
knowledge of such "tricks" used in those kinds of tests.  Now when I can 
answer a question like that, it's mostly memory skills and not much 
intelligence.

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