Connect 9 Dots with 1 Line

You may have seen this puzzle where you have to connect 9 dots with 4 straight lines without lifting the pen from the paper or going back on yourself — it’s a traditional ‘thinking outside the box’ puzzle.

If you can do the 4-line solution, you may be interested in trying the 9 dots, 3 lines version that I posted last Wednesday.

This week's challenge is to connect 9 dots with 1 line!

Next week's puzzle will be to connect 16 dots with 6 lines.
 


This puzzle is part of my collection of icebreakers, exercises and puzzles which can be found on LearningPages.org


 

Solution

The 1-line solution shown below involves placing the dots on the surface of the earth with a single line going around the planet three times!

If you object to this solution, the alternative is to use one very thick line.