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The "nine dots" puzzle. The puzzle asks to link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen. The nine dots puzzle is a mathematical puzzle whose task is to connect nine squarely arranged points with a pen by four (or fewer) straight lines without lifting the pen or retracing any lines.
The "nine dots" puzzle (left) has the goal of linking all 9 dots using four straight lines or less, without lifting the pen. Its solution (right) is to draw those lines "outside the box". Since at least 1954, the nine dots puzzle has been used as a metaphor of the type "think beyond the boundary".
The roots of connecting dots to create pictures or help with calligraphy can be traced back to the 19th century. The Nine Dots Puzzle is the first known puzzle game where the player has to connect dots. But in this variant the goal is not to draw a picture, but to solve a logic puzzle. The emergence of connect the dots games in the printed ...
The puzzle is studied by D. E. Knuth in an article on estimating the running time of exhaustive search procedures with backtracking. [2] Every position of the puzzle can be solved in eight moves or less. [3] The first known patented version of the puzzle was created by Frederick Alvin Schossow in 1900, and marketed as the Katzenjammer puzzle. [4]
The missing square puzzle is an optical illusion used in mathematics classes to help students reason about geometrical figures; or rather to teach them not to reason using figures, but to use only textual descriptions and the axioms of geometry. It depicts two arrangements made of similar shapes in slightly different configurations.
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Mathematical puzzles require mathematics to solve them. Logic puzzles are a common type of mathematical puzzle. Conway's Game of Life and fractals, as two examples, may also be considered mathematical puzzles even though the solver interacts with them only at the beginning by providing a set of initial conditions. After these conditions are set ...