The Outliers Book Puzzle Solution Part 2 That kept me thinking… What’s the method to convert T1 into T2? And then I’ve imagined the following two steps. Step One: what if… now all clovers become hearts (and hearts translate into diamonds obviously). Well after doing so, I’ve end up with a new matrix, sadly that was not still the solution. So here’s come the tricky part. I’ve also noticed that if apply a Second Step and “move every cell in the resulting matrix one position to the left” I ended up with T2 configuration. Step Two is a little bit difficult to understand as you can see in the image, “moving cells to the left” can be tricky, let’s define cell on top left as cell (1,1). After the movement operation completes: the cell that was in position (1,1) moves to (3,3); cell (2,1) to (1,3); (3,1) to (2,3) etc. After that, I tried my theory going from T2 to T3 but “this time the hearts become diamonds (and diamonds translates into clovers), the second step of moving all the cells one place to the left is the same”. Lastly I applied this strange set of operations to the T8 and the resulting T9 is the same as “Solution A” (see the Puzzle Pic). After posting this solution on Facebook, my friend told me that the problem was found in a book called “Outliers: The Story of Success”and as a brain teaser they did not reveal the steps to reach the solution in the book. That’s the reason why i’m sharing my two-step algorithm here. I do love puzzles and after this enjoyable experience, I decided to buy the book in kindle format and started reading it.