Welcome To Bonus Ideas

I've wondered where this phrase "think out of the box", came from. Well apparently, it's believed to come from a nine dot puzzle (a square of 3x3 dots). The rules of the puzzle to connect all the dots using only straight lines in such a way as to do it in the least amount of lines. All of the dots must be used. The square of dots is considered to be the box. The solution requires you to draw outside the square (box). You draw a line through the first row of dots. Then extend the line outside the box (to the right) so that you can draw a line to diagonally connect the last dot of the second row with the middle dot of the third row. Again, you extend that diagonal line outside the box until you can draw another line through the entire first column of dots. Then you simply draw a diagonal line down the middle to complete the connection to the rest of the dots. The term takes on a more metaphoric meaning today, where the box represents the confi