Book Description
This classic by a famed puzzle expert features 700 tangrams and solutions, plus a charming satirical commentary on the puzzle's origins, its religious significance, and its relationship to mathematics.
Author : Sam Loyd
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Tangrams
ISBN : 9780486454245
This classic by a famed puzzle expert features 700 tangrams and solutions, plus a charming satirical commentary on the puzzle's origins, its religious significance, and its relationship to mathematics.
Author : Sam Loyd
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Tangrams
ISBN :
Author : Sam Loyd
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,46 MB
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486838765
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.
Author : Ronald C. Read
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486801292
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.
Author : Sam Loyd
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Mathematical recreations
ISBN :
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486320324
The noted expert selects 70 of his favorite "short" puzzles, including such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and dozens more involving logic and basic math. Solutions included.
Author : Susan Johnston
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Geometry
ISBN : 9780486238531
122 new tangram puzzles based on the alphabet acrobat, bird, helicopter, more. 2 sets of playing pieces. Solutions. "
Author :
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 1820
Category : History
ISBN : 5871957390
Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2004-02-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780253217080
"Humans are the only animals who create and solve puzzles--for the sheer pleasure of it--and there is no obvious genetic reason why we would do this. Marcel Danesi explores the psychology of puzzles and puzzling, with scores of classic examples. His pioneering book is both entertaining and enlightening." --Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, The New York Times "... Puzzle fanatics will enjoy the many riddles, illusions, cryptograms and other mind-benders offered for analysis." --Psychology Today "... a bristlingly clear... always intriguing survey of the history and rationale of puzzles.... A] splendid study...." --Knight Ridder Newspapers
Author : James Lyon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1626860823
Stretch your brain with shape puzzles! Use the tans to make pictures and you will improve your lateral thinking and creativity. Based on the best-selling Book-in-a-Box kits, the Tangrams Book will help you stretch the visual side of your brain—whatever your age! First solve the puzzle by creating the shape shown, and then change it into the new shape with only the number of moves indicated.