The Tangram Puzzle Book

The tangram's challenge lies in arranging seven geometrical pieces — a square, rhomboid, and five triangles — into a variety of different shapes. These 700 absorbing puzzles include complete solutions.

"The Tangram is one of the most ancient puzzles in the world, focused on deciphering silhouettes composed with the seven pieces. This book presents a collection of totally different types of puzzles. The puzzles we present here use the pieces as building blocks only, and present many versatile challenges, from all types of recreational mathematics fields. For example, here you will find symmetry puzzles, cover-up puzzles and even a Poker-related puzzle. In several puzzles we will use not all seven pieces but a subset of them, and there are also puzzles for which you will need to join all pieces from two Tangram sets. From the moment we changed the rules (using the seven pieces to decipher silhouettes) we felt that the sky is the limit! There is something magical and enchanting in those seven pieces that enabled us to find many puzzles and challenges! Almost all the puzzles presented are new, unique and original. Some are based on classic puzzles, as well as more modern ones, modified and presented with using the set of Tangram pieces"--

This collection gathers together nearly 330 tangrams, the best creations of both Chinese and Occidental puzzle devisers. Puzzles range from the relatively easy to the difficult.

A historical study on the ancient and popular Chinese puzzle game presents more than two thousand all-time tangrams, along with detailed instructions on how to arrange these intriguing puzzle tiles and presenting a variety of special puzzles for the reader to solve. Reprint.

Gives the history of the ancient Chinese game of tangrams and shows how to arrange seven shapes into a variety of figures.

Grandfather tells a story about shape-changing fox fairies who try to best each other until a hunter brings danger to both of them.

A MAY/JUNE 2000 BOOKSENSE '76 SELECTIONACCELERATED READER PROGRAM SELECTION"The use of foreshortening and a wide variety of camera angles makes each page a visual surprise. The emotions so clearly portrayed on each character's face echo those of the reader, who will finish this book with a broad smile."--Children's Literature "This handsome picture book will be useful for encouraging children to play around with geometry at home or in the classroom."--Booklist In China, a beautiful ceramic tile lies shattered on the ground, and the artist who dropped it is sentenced to the land's worst punishment. The fierce warlord will execute the artist unless some wise person can put the seven pieces back together. That person will then be invited to live in the castle. Both locals and strangers from far away wait their turns for a chance to solve the warlord's puzzle. After learning why these people are waiting to enter the castle, a peasant boy convinces his poor but wise father to join the line. This little boy starts them off on the first step to solving the puzzle--entering the contest.