Following the numbered dots, erase the lines between them until the hidden image is disclosed.

Erase using a graphics program, or print out the puzzle and use white-out or trace it with a pencil and then erase.
-- FarmerJohn, Jul 07 2003

like this, but better http://www.geocitie...nie/disconnect.html
[FarmerJohn, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Dry Erase Printer http://www.halfbake...y_20Erase_20Printer
For use with this idea. [Worldgineer, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

Finding hidden images in pictures has long been a staple of children's puzzles. I don't think you need to number anything.
-- DrCurry, Jul 07 2003


(++...+)
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 07 2003


Adorable. How creative! +
-- phundug, Jul 07 2003


[bm] Maybe if you squint while imagining you're halfbaking in an internet café in gay Paris.
-- FarmerJohn, Jul 07 2003


T'would be better if the lines - to - be - erased crisscrossed the picture - to - be - uncovered.
-- phoenix, Jul 07 2003


No, you erase the numbered dots, the lines between them and the numbers. The result (lines between unnumbered dots) is a stylised image of what you find at the upper left of this page.
-- FarmerJohn, Jul 07 2003


Sounds like a great excuse to invent the graphite printer or the erasable ink printer cartridge.

Does it mean I've been around too long when I start forgetting and recreating my own ideas? Guess what I found when I searched for erasable (see link).
-- Worldgineer, Jul 07 2003


Nice. Quirky.
-- thecat, Jul 07 2003


FarmerJohn, nice 1/2 crescent on a plate.
-- thumbwax, Jul 07 2003


I saw a similar game with an alarm clock, a thermos and a mass of wiring. It was called "disconnect the terrorist device". How disarmingly simple...
-- riposte, Jul 08 2003


Yes, but in [FarmerJohn]'s idea, nobody dies, riposte. Unless, of course, the parents are abusive AND want a brilliant kid. Then, maybe.
-- shapu, May 26 2004


A graphite printer would be so great.
-- bristolz, Jun 04 2004


Just look at the lines not numbered, the image is obvious, I think kids would get bored. I used to try to visualize the picture before filling in the dots, I think that was halfway the point, at least. Its harder to cheat like this with a bunch of dots on a page than a bunch of numbered and unnumbered lines.
-- daseva, Jun 04 2004


The book should come with a mini "pencil" with an eraser at each end.
-- phundug, Jun 04 2004



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