Connecting Dots by Sharon Jennings6/1/2023 ![]() Connect the dots is primarily the American version of the idiom, and join the dots is primarily the British form of the idiom. Connect-the-dots puzzles are especially popular with children, as it helps teach them to count. If one misses one dot, the picture will not emerge in its entirety. ![]() This is an appropriate metaphor for not “seeing” the whole picture until one connects all the dots appropriately. However, when the participant connects the dots a drawing appears. In a connect-the-dots puzzle or join-the-dots puzzle, various numbered dots are arranged across the page in a seemingly random fashion. ![]() The idioms connect the dots and join the dots are twentieth century phrases taken from a type of puzzle invented sometime around the turn of the twentieth century. When someone connects the dots, he gathers all the data available in order to come to a conclusion. ![]() Connect the dots and join the dots mean to put various facts and ideas together in order to see the whole picture or to understand something globally. ![]()
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