Most members of the group will push and struggle as hard as they can to win once and never give in to their opponents. They may come to realize that they are just wasting a lot of energy. A few enlightened participants will flip their arms back and forth on the table as often as they can, ignoring the competitive aspect and creating win-win situations. Ask participants to draw nine dots on a piece of paper, as shown in the box on page 70. The task is to draw four straight lines through all nine dots without lifting one's pen or pencil from the paper.
Many people assume that the solution is limited to the square within the nine dots.
Once they abandon that notion, they may think of several solutions, also shown in the box. Each letter of the names above is associated with a number from 0 to 9 and the value of D is 5. The task is to find the values of the other letters. Typically, people add from right to left. After that, they tend to get stuck.