Although this example is typical of a Christmas holiday puzzle, it illustrates the way that Google Gemini can reason for you and iterate possibe solutions:
I took a photo of this as a picture on my iPhone, pressed the (+) button in Google Gemini and then asked it to "Solve this puzzle". It took less than a minute:
Impressive.
In the same way, i've seen Gemini given a photo of a centuries old Dutch shipping ledger manifest, where one of the numbers was obscured by damage. Asked to translate the ledger page into English, it did so - but also reasoned back from the total to calculate what the missing number was. It duly made the full (now cleansed) page available to load directly into a spreadsheet.
Using this capability often saves hours, if not days, of frustrating work.
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