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Brainteaser: Nine Dots

Lindsay Starke

Can you link all 9 dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting your cursor and without tracing the same line more than once?

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Here are two solutions to this famous puzzle.

 

 

Surprised? The nine dots puzzle is a classic illustration of the basic human tendency to think "inside the box."

 

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Alexandra Souchkova
8 months ago

The second solution really surprised me as it demonstrated how I was thinking inside the box both literally and figuratively... We (humans) are taught to think inside the box halfway through elementary school and into college--solving a problem a certain way because it's the "right" way--but ironically value ingenuity.