China Outside the Box

Take a sheet of paper and copy down the nine dots exactly as they are displayed below.

Without ever lifting your pencil from the paper, try joining up all the dots by drawing only 4 continuous straight lines (going through the middle of each dot only once).
You have 15 minutes to solve the puzzle.

Discover the solution

Think outside the box!
We often have a tendancy to remain confined
within our own space.

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3:

Step 4:

Did you solve the puzzle? Congratulations!

You gave up before the 15 minutes were up?
Try to be more patient...it could be useful in China.

As the Chinese proverb says « With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk ».