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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".
Frobenius coin problem with 2-pence and 5-pence coins visualised as graphs: Sloping lines denote graphs of 2x+5y=n where n is the total in pence, and x and y are the non-negative number of 2p and 5p coins, respectively.
The emergence of connect the dots games in the printed press takes place in the early 20th century. These games were published with other puzzle games as pastime for children on the Sunday edition. While the first books containing connect the dots games exclusively were printed in 1926 by Ward, Lock & Co. [4] A mostly complete puzzle
The problem consists of a 3 × 3 square created by 9 black dots. The task is to connect all 9 dots using exactly 4 straight lines, without retracing or removing one's pen from the paper. Kershaw & Ohlsson [29] report that in a laboratory setting with a time limit of 2 or 3 minutes, the expected solution rate is 0%.
Blind contour drawing is a drawing exercise, where an artist draws the contour of a subject without looking at the paper. The artistic technique was introduced by Kimon Nicolaïdes in The Natural Way to Draw, and it is further popularized by Betty Edwards as "pure contour drawing" in The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. [1] [2]
Although available in several colors, the original marbled black-and-white cover, with its generic label on the front, is the most common. Typically, they have dimensions of 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 by 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (250 mm × 190 mm) or 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 by 6 + 7 ⁄ 8 inches (220 mm × 170 mm) and 20, 40, 80 or 100 sheets. Composition books can be ruled or ...
The problem was first posed by Henry Dudeney in 1900, as a puzzle in recreational mathematics, phrased in terms of placing the 16 pawns of a chessboard onto the board so that no three are in a line. [2] This is exactly the no-three-in-line problem, for the case =. [3] In a later version of the puzzle, Dudeney modified the problem, making its ...