Draw Without Lifting Pen Point: Can you draw the image below without ever lifting the Pen Point from the paper? It involves thinking outside the box. And yes, it IS possible. Remember:...

bobbyjohn Loc: Dallas, TX

Can you draw the image below without ever lifting the Pen Point from the paper? It involves thinking outside the box. And yes, it IS possible.

Remember: It's the pen point we're talking about...so no...you cannot lay the pen on its side.

anotherview Loc: California

This puzzle appears to present a trick question. Otherwise, white space separates the stick figure from the building outline. This fact prevents drawing the picture without lifting the pen point. Maybe folding the paper could overcome the obvious limitation?

bobbyjohn wrote:

Can you draw the image below without ever lifting the Pen Point from the paper? It involves thinking outside the box. And yes, it IS possible.

Remember: It's the pen point we're talking about...so no...you cannot lay the pen on its side.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I've seen so many things like that. I'll try it later.

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

use 2 drawing instruments

ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA

Fold the paper so that a part of the stick figure touches the house - requires two creases.

anotherview Loc: California

Thanks for supporting my speculation.

ecobin wrote:

Fold the paper so that a part of the stick figure touches the house - requires two creases.

bobbyjohn Loc: Dallas, TX

For those of you all who thought to FOLD the paper....your thinking outside the box got it right...

trinhqthuan Loc: gaithersburg

ecobin wrote:

Fold the paper so that a part of the stick figure touches the house - requires two creases.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

bobbyjohn wrote:

For those of you all who thought to FOLD the paper....your thinking outside the box got it right...

Thanks for that. It's good to challenge the brain.

FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA

bobbyjohn wrote:

Can you draw the image below without ever lifting the Pen Point from the paper? It involves thinking outside the box. And yes, it IS possible.

Remember: It's the pen point we're talking about...so no...you cannot lay the pen on its side.

draw the house with left hand and a pen and draw stick figure with right hand and another pen - both at the same time !!

Caranx Loc: Atlanta

Use a click pen, draw either figure, retract the nib, drag the point, extend nib & draw the next figure.

FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA

Caranx wrote:

Use a click pen, draw either figure, retract the nib, drag the point, extend nib & draw the next figure.

Excellent - much better than my method.

BigDen Loc: Alberta, Canada

bobbyjohn wrote:

For those of you all who thought to FOLD the paper....your thinking outside the box got it right...

Good in theory, but you have pointed out that the point of the pen must not leave the paper. There would however, be a moment in time that the pen point does so as you move from the flat paper to the fold.

clickety

bobbyjohn wrote:

For those of you all who thought to FOLD the paper....your thinking outside the box got it right...

How is it possible to transition the EXACT point of contact of the writing tool from one side of the paper to the other side of the paper without losing contact as required in your illustration? I think that would require a point to be so microscopic that the line drawn would be visually imperceptible. Yes, I get the premise but to be precise it’s humanly impossible.

clickety

clickety wrote:

How is it possible to transition the EXACT point of contact of the writing tool from one side of the paper to the other side of the paper without losing contact as required in your illustration? I think that would require a point to be so microscopic that the line drawn would be visually imperceptible. Yes, I get the premise but to be precise it’s humanly impossible.

I suppose a using a fat dull crayon could would comply with the rules, so I retract the above nitpicking response.