trying to work out a riddle?

Question

Can anyone tell me the answer to this riddle a friend and i are trying to work it out
Its something about you have 9 dots and you can only draw 4 lines to contain the square or something like that

what is the answer

the puzzle dots look like this

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Answer 1

1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8 6

Go outside the "square" formed by the dots. It's hard to explain it more clearly without a picture. Draw a long vertical line on the left side through 1, 4, 7. Then draw a diagonal up through dots 8, 6. Turn this line to the left and go through 3, 2, 1. Finally, draw diagonally through 1, 5, 9.

Answer 2

You have 9 dots arranged like a rectangle:


Without taking your pen off the paper, draw four lines that cross all 9 dots.

This is a very famous puzzle. It was actually responsible for the cliche:''Think outside the box''

Answer 3

just draw a square around it

Answer 4

Sry can't help ya....