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:

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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.

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Oh, that's not right.

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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%.