You can solve it: The 9-point puzzle makes 80% of candidates

How to connect 9 points together with only 4 adjacent strokes - the puzzle only 20% of the respondents solved. To start the new week, today we will try a little bit with the classic 9-point puzzle.

9-point puzzles make up 80% of candidates

First, look at the drawing below:

The question is: How to connect all the points together by 4 straight lines together?

Try thinking before you see the answer below.

Answers

Most of us at the beginning of the exercise will try one of these two methods.

Oh, that's not right.

Still not right .

So what to do? Stop thinking along the way, but think in more open directions.

If you still can't do it, then look at the answer here.

Riddles make 80% of people asked to give up?

The 9-point puzzle was devised by Joy Paul Guilford in psychology in the 1970s to study human creativity through out-of-box thinking . Accordingly, instead of trying to find the way to connect the dots together, why not try to go beyond that standard to create.

At that time, only 20% of the candidates in Guilford's study answered this question.

Even in a newer study conducted in 2013 by two Australian neurologists - Allan Snyder and Richard Chi, there were . 0% of the candidates answered. So you don't need to be too disappointed if you fall into this 80%.