The Teak Door Brain Teaser thread

[Buckaroo Banzai]

" Join nine dots"
All nine dots must be joined (connected)

PS: I appreciate the consideration by some members who know the solution but are kind enough to not reveal it and let other have fun with it.

[Neverna]

^ Nev, surely in both cases you seem to have missed one dot?

A mere detail, Mendip. No one likes excessive concern with minor details.

[Joe 90]

Think broken arrow and outside the box.

[Buckaroo Banzai]

To solve the puzzle one must unburden one's self from conventional thinking and think outside the box.

[DrWilly]

Think broken arrow and outside the box.

To solve the puzzle one must unburden one's self from conventional thinking and think outside the box.

A couple of Einsteins here with their ‘cryptic’ clues…

[dirk diggler]

If I do it in 3 can I sell back the 4th line?

[Backspin]

Yeah, I see no reason why the gravy would run down along the top of the pipe and hit that lip and then drop into 2.

I reckon it would run down the sides of the vertical pipe and splatter on the table between 3 and 4.

Maybe the answer is none. They are all blocked off

[Buckaroo Banzai]

A couple of Einsteins here with their ‘cryptic’ clues…

No Einstein here, to be fair when I was presented with that puzzle the first day of phycology class ,back in college over forty years ago , I failed miserably. In fact no one in class solved it.
Indeed we all thought we were a bunch if Einsteins back then. For me it was a humbling experience.
The solution served as a life long lesson to me , I will say more about that after a solution is presented.

[Shutree]

For me it was a humbling experience.

Agreed. Infuriatingly simple once you see it. First time, I didn't.

[Troy]

No Einstein here, to be fair when I was presented with that puzzle the first day of phycology class ,back in college over forty years ago , I failed miserably. In fact no one in class solved it.

I remember it from a Maths class a very long time ago and none of us solved it at the time either. I didn't know about the 3-line solution until quite recently but did know of the 1-line solutions.

[cyrille]

There's a vid on YT if anyone can't stand the suspense.

[Joe 90]

There's a vid on YT if anyone can't stand the suspense.

The Oracle has spoken.

Didn't have you down as an anti-semitic.

[Buckaroo Banzai]

There's a vid on YT if anyone can't stand the suspense.

So we will put you down as defeated and searching the internet for help.

[david44]

searching the internet for help

where else to find kitchen help?



Unlike the headless staff Simon's Candy crush

[qwerty]

I see the 9 dot answer, but I guess I'm not supposed to show it!

[Buckaroo Banzai]

I see the 9 dot answer, but I guess I'm not supposed to show it!

If you have solved it, by all means post it, if you have found the answer on the internet , it would be nice to keep it to yourself for a while and give a chance to those who might want to try and solve it themselves.
If you are all giving up, simply say "Uncle" and I will post the solution, but we will be driving to Chiang Mai from Khon Kaen the next four days , and I might noy have internet,
So if the "Uncle" cry id heard and anyone else wants to post the solution is also fine.

[Buckaroo Banzai]

We seem to have lost interest in this puzzle, and I don't blame us, it cam be frustrating staring at it and not seeing the solution. It certainly was for me.
So for those who have not yet found the solution on Google, here it goes

The clue posted by several who knew the answer was , "You must think outside the box" and indeed that was the answer as you can see.
As I said , I was first exposed to this puzzle first day in a phycology class , the instructor was trying to make the point that our thinking is limited by mental constructs used every day to simplify the myriad of information we are constantly presented with.
Straight lines always start at one point and end at another, and everything is contained with in their pattern
Even though it was never said that we have to stay with in the pattern and that the lines had to change direction when it reached a point, we , including me, could not make the cognitive jump and made both of those cognitive mistakes.
In essence developed cognitive tunnel vision
A life long lesson that I learned from this exercise is that in propaganda, (a device to make you think true that which is not), though what you are being told might sound true, and to a certain degree it is, what you are not being told is much more important .
Try and think outside the box
A lesson that I also frequently forget

[Buckaroo Banzai]

Ok ,
Back by popular demand, from no one.
Here is another one.
Please excuse the picture, I forgot my phone in the car and the wife went shopping, so I took the picture with my laptop being held upside down. LOL
anyway
The candles form a chalice that contains the lock. By moving two candles , try and rebuild the chalice so that the lock is outside the chalice.
If you don't have candles to recreate the puzzle, asparagus can also be used.

[Mendip]

You could use 4 carrots and a sprout if you don't have asparagus or a lock.

[Buckaroo Banzai]

You could use 4 carrots and a sprout if you don't have asparagus or a lock.

NO!! absolutely not!!
Carrots do not go together with sprouts . Everyone knows that.
Unless oncourse you are English, in which case anything goes.
But I am sure if that was the case, baked beans would be used instead , and once the chalice was recreated and the baked beans were outside the chalice they will all fall on the floor and make a Royal mess.

[Mendip]

I'm on a bus right now and have no veg to hand so I'm a bit stuck on this one.

[Buckaroo Banzai]

I'm on a bus right now and have no veg to hand so I'm a bit stuck on this one.

Have a good trip.
We just came back last night from a road trip to Chiang Mai, a nine hour drive from Khon Kaen

[Edmond]

The candles form a chalice that contains the lock. By moving two candles , try and rebuild the chalice so that the lock is outside the chalice.

[Buckaroo Banzai]

Winner Winner!! Chicken dinner.
Though you lose points for your drawing skills ,but extra credit for the boobs

[david44]

Well done, stick up a new one, a turnip for the books, a real LULU , what softwear creates the luminous boxes?