I'm thick, so I don't understand it either YR....

I think it's the way you write the figures down on the page to get the shapes

I could've answered that fred title without even seeing the puzzle  

Ah, like back to back? 

I think so, Sprout

I can see that in the second and third one but not the first Madame...

Turn the first figure round and the 2 numbers form the shape described

Ditto  

This..

Yes, but reverse the first figure of each pair.

Put the twos on top of each other - the resultant drawing looks like a fish. With the threes and sevens just draw them touching.

Invert the 2 and add to the 2....hey presto a fish

I've been trying that fish one out and the results look like a fish that has been swimming around in water that's had a fair bit of nuclear waste tipped in it

I'm trying to take in all your smart answers but I'm still lost

With pencil and paper I can't do it, I am NOT smart.

All of them have to be drawn over each other to get e truer representation, not just touching.

Aha!! I just got the second one, put the two 3's facing each other and it's an 8, wooohoo!! I'm getting smarter (has anyone already said that)

By jove I've got it

Hiya Syd       *Sits on *not smart* bench with Syd* 

I would never have got that - thanks Madame Arcati 

Haha, then you get that classic fish shape that's on the back of Jesus' vehicles but standing upright 

Just checked, not quite but not far off

1 out of 3 is good for me if any maths are involved I still don't understand the bigger picture of this though lol

 Sprout...*Wanders away from the not smart bench, leaving Sprout * by jove I've got it!

  Don't leave me! 

If you are INVERTING the figure (turning it upsidedown) then it's no wonder you are 'not getting it. You want each pair to be mirror images of each other, as I originally said.

Is that kinda what I said Fluffs.........a mirror image? 

Maths has nothing to do with it. IT's purely pictorial.

*Goes back to Not Smart bench with Sprout *

*Smiles and pats seat* 

That's cos you always have empty bowels and are always alert

Budge over Sydders

Oh!  *runs upstairs* 

With some of you drawing pictures I was beginning to think that's where I was going wrong so what does the pic look like, a fish in a figure of eight shape within a triangle? 

Ah yes, I missed you saying that - sorry!

 Good ere innit...want to make paper aeroplanes?

Haha, no. It's three unrelated pics.

So I've not won then whoever gets it is very very very smart