Question 1/20
First on the Scene
An empty room is frequently mistaken for a room in which no judgment is required. The absence of occupants removes one variable; it does not abolish the distinction between positions.
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Twenty illustrated explanations of urinal etiquette and personal space. Explore how occupied positions, body size, partitions, wet floors and entrances change a decision. Every case includes the room plan and its reasoning, without requiring you to play first.
How to read a case
First identify usable positions and the visitors around them. Compare clearance, including body size and the protection offered by partitions. Edge preference and distance from the entrance can distinguish otherwise comparable positions. Each case explains which constraints matter in that specific room; a wet floor or a visitor looking sideways can change the choice.
Question 2/20
The Solitary Colleague
One occupied fixture is sufficient to establish a meaningful spatial reference. The task is to respond to that reference without converting an otherwise spacious room into an unsolicited social encounter.
Question 3/20
Neutral Territory
The presence of a visitor at each end removes the simplest terminal solution. The remaining problem is not to identify an edge, but to preserve separation on both sides.
Question 4/20
Between Two Fires
Not every room permits the complete avoidance of a neighbour. In such circumstances, the number of neighbouring occupants remains a relevant distinction, even where the nearest separation is equally small.
Question 5/20
The Observer
A visitor whose attention is directed towards adjacent fixtures introduces a directional privacy problem. This cannot be described adequately by counting empty bowls alone.
Question 6/20
The Substantial Gentleman
An unusually broad visitor does not occupy several numbered fixtures. He does, however, increase the practical importance of preserving room beside the one he occupies.
Question 7/20
Diplomatic Equilibrium
Every available position in this arrangement entails immediate proximity to someone. The question is therefore which form of proximity imposes the least avoidable intrusion.
Question 8/20
Safety Behind a Screen
A protective partition may be overvalued when its visible solidity is mistaken for additional space. The distinction matters in a room where an unscreened but genuinely separated position is available.
Question 9/20
Compromised Neutrality
This arrangement offers no completely private vacant position. A defensible judgment must acknowledge the remaining exposure rather than announce a security that the scene does not provide.
Question 10/20
The Shoulders of Diplomacy
An apparently superior end fixture may lack a satisfactory standing area when it borders the active route into a room. Spatial comparison must include the people who pass through that route.
Question 11/20
A Strategic Retreat
A cluster of occupied fixtures can make a nearby vacancy seem convenient while leaving a substantially better retreat at the opposite end. Convenience is not itself a clearance criterion.
Question 12/20
Precisely Between Problems
A boundary is useful only in relation to the people and objects surrounding it. This arrangement tests whether the appeal of an end position survives inspection of its occupied side.
Question 13/20
The False Refuge
The eye readily identifies an unused terminal fixture. It is somewhat less reliable at noticing the occupied fixture immediately beside it. The present case separates those two observations.
Question 14/20
So Near, Yet So Far
A screen becomes materially useful when the remaining alternatives cannot offer better immediate clearance. Its role here differs from cases in which an actual gap can still be preserved.
Question 15/20
On the Other Side of the Law
The same partition can support different decisions in different occupancy patterns. Its value must be assessed alongside the possibility of standing farther away.
Question 16/20
Keeping One’s Feet Dry
A wet floor is a local hygiene constraint. Treating it as either irrelevant or contagious to an entire row would introduce two different errors into the same short decision.
Question 17/20
Two Shores
A central puddle divides the available dry candidates visually, but does not confer equal desirability on the two sides. The identity of the nearer occupant remains relevant.
Question 18/20
End of Transmission
A directed gaze can reach beyond an empty neighbouring fixture. In this arrangement, a partition interrupts that direction and creates a genuine distinction between two parts of the row.
Question 19/20
The Luxury Studio
The best remaining position may be bordered by two different conditions without inheriting the disadvantages of both. Here a partition provides protection whilst a neighbouring puddle remains a separate exclusion.
Question 20/20
The Final Defence
The final scored arrangement combines occupied termini, a substantial visitor, a partition and a wet fixture. Its difficulty lies in keeping their separate effects separate whilst comparing the whole room.
About these case studies
UrinalIQ is a humorous spatial puzzle. MIUT and Professor Pembroke are fictional; these essays use a deliberately academic voice. The recommendations explain the game’s rules, not validated psychology or a real IQ assessment.
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