According to Kihn, consultants of the 1970s and 1980s tried to make their prospective clients feel inferior by presenting them with the puzzle. The challenge is to connect the dots by drawing four straight, continuous lines without lifting the pencil from the paper.

The puzzle is easily solved, but only if you draw the lines outside of the confines of the square area defined by the nine dots themselves. Thus, the phrase "thinking outside the box" was born.

The new nine dot puzzle. The challenge is to connect the dots by drawing just one straight, continuous line.

If knowledge Sharing is Key, Working together is dynamite. I have stopped using pencils.