True creativity as well as true intelligence should INCLUDE THE ABILITY TO INTUITIVELY OR RATIONALLY "UNDERSTAND" WHAT IS THE SIMPLEST SOLUTION - meaning the simplest possible pattern that can be considered to consist of 3 or 6 or 9 shapes, one of which you have to choose in a standard figures based IQ test... "simple" might actually mean "being able to unambiguously explain it in the smallest number of words" for someone with a background in literature and philosophy and something similar for someone used more to the mathematical language... but in 90% of the cases there is an unambiguous "simplest" pattern that can be seen in the figures IQ test (not 100% because it's a statistical measure anyway, but still).
After all, don't we usually think of "smart" people as the ones that can take complicated things and make them simple or explain them in simpler terms (think Feynman, Einstein...).
...now about "cow, hen, pig, sheep" ...this is obviously a biased example by choosing 3 words of 3 letters and one of 5 and can be replaced with something that does not overlap the number of letters pattern on top of the number of legs or animal group one...
After all, don't we usually think of "smart" people as the ones that can take complicated things and make them simple or explain them in simpler terms (think Feynman, Einstein...).
...now about "cow, hen, pig, sheep" ...this is obviously a biased example by choosing 3 words of 3 letters and one of 5 and can be replaced with something that does not overlap the number of letters pattern on top of the number of legs or animal group one...