I eavesdrop on their conversation, of course, and notice that once they have a companion in crime, they stick with it a bit longer and push each other to think in new ways. If I allow people to work on the puzzle together, more figure it out than when they work on it alone. And many adults self-impose a rule I haven’t imposed - they assume the lines may not extend beyond the boundary formed by the 8 dots along the outside of the square. The “trick,” of course, is that you have to think outside box - quite literally - to be able to connect the dots with four straight lines without lifting your pen off the paper. If they’ve truly never run into the puzzle before, and don’t know the “trick” to solving it, they will sometimes throw up their hands and accuse me of giving them an unsolvable task. Many people struggle with Part 1 of the exercise but they keep at it for a while.
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