…and other such boardroom bingo classics.
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This comic reminds me of a quote from Groucho Marx: Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
When I first encountered the “Thinking Outside the Box” puzzle in high school, my solution was to use hyperbolic geometry and draw three parallel lines through the nine dots. My teacher said that was cheating.
You know, between Groucho Marx and Woody Allen, I don’t think there are that many puns left undiscovered.
That’s the first time you’ve spoken here like a true coder… the only people I have ever met with a capacity for twisting puzzles around them with ease.
Technically, you merged the two idioms – the actual puzzle, and the type of thinking it takes its name from. If I were a maths teacher that would be the sort of thing I’d encourage.
Oddly, my knowledge of geometry was somewhat lacking by the time I left school, it was only some ten years later when I set a book about the rope stretchers of ancient Egypt that I finally got my head round it.
The wikipedia entry is somewhat lacking though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_stretcher
I’m not sure I have a box. I don’t think…
Your posts on this site are evidence to the contrary…
It’s hard to be outside the box – must of us a packaged and labeled.
The theory of thinking outside the box always leads to the contemplation of infinity, for me anyway. And when I think of infinity I feel strangely small and rather useless. So I will remain in my box, and consider many problems unsolvable, simply to avoid a mental breakdown.
i wonder if the Total Perspective Vortex is considered a box.
I think it comes in a box…
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