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Logic Tangram Set with Play Cards Wooden Puzzle Game

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Logic Tangram Set with Play Cards Wooden Puzzle Game

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This game is a great gift item, made of beautiful crafted tangram pieces and a sturdy box. It offers challenging puzzles and two sets of pieces, making it perfect for two people to play together. However, some modifications may be necessary to make it more user friendly.

The Tangram (also known as "Seven Boards Of Skill", "7 Tricky Pieces", "7 Clever Pieces", and "Chinese Puzzle") is a dissection puzzleconsisting of 7 flat shapes, called TANS, which are puttogether to form shapes. The objective ofthe puzzle is to form a specific shape (given only an outline or silhouette)using all seven pieces(pieces m…

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The Tangram (also known as "Seven Boards Of Skill", "7 Tricky Pieces", "7 Clever Pieces", and "Chinese Puzzle") is a dissection puzzleconsisting of 7 flat shapes, called TANS, which are puttogether to form shapes. The objective ofthe puzzle is to form a specific shape (given only an outline or silhouette)using all seven pieces(pieces may notoverlap). It is reputed to havebeen invented inChina during the Song Dynasty (was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 andcontinued until 1279),and then carried over to Europe by trading ships in theearly 19thcentury. It became verypopular in Europe for a time then, and then again during World War I.It is one of the mostpopular dissection puzzles in the world. A Chinese psychologist has termed the Tangram "the earliestpsychological test in the world", albeit one made for entertainment ratherthan for analysis. The Tangram challenges the puzzler to produce a given silhouette using all 7 pieces. This Tangram set includes 2 sets of the 7 wooden pieces Tangram (Total of 14 wood pieces) and 64 glossy silhouette cards. Each card showing on one side the silhouette you can try and build, and the solution on the other side, and will provide different challenges and hours upon hours of quality entertainment and fun for the entire family. Since this game offer 2 sets of the 7 pieces Tangram, there is an option to use it as a 2 player game, when a silhouette card is pulled out, and each of the players try to complete the silhouette first, without looking at the solution. The puzzle comes with wooden box and matching lid, for safe keeping of the pieces and cards. Etymology The origin of theword Tangram is unclear. The Tan-' element isvariously conjectured to be Chinese. The '-gram' element is apparently from Greek. History The Tangram hadalready been around in China for a long time when it was first brought toAmerica by Captain M. Donnaldson, on his ship, Trader, in 1815. When itdocked in Canton, the captain was given a pair of Tangram books (by author Sang-Hsia-kois). They were then broughtwith the ship to Philadelphia, where it docked in February 1816. The first Tangram book to be publishedin America was based on the pair brought by Donnaldson. The puzzle was originally popularized by TheEighth Book Of Tan,a fictitious history of Tangram, which claimed thatthe game was invented 4,000 years prior by a god named Tan. The puzzle eventuallyreached England, where it became very fashionable. The craze quickly spread to other European countries, this was mostly due to apair of British Tangram

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This game is a great gift item, made of beautiful crafted tangram pieces and a sturdy box. It offers challenging puzzles and two sets of pieces, making it perfect for two people to play together. However, some modifications may be necessary to make it more user friendly.

Pros

Amazing woodwork
Sturdy box
Great for family bonding
Elegant and well-crafted

Cons

Pricey

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The Tangram (also known as "Seven Boards Of Skill", "7 Tricky Pieces", "7 Clever Pieces", and "Chinese Puzzle") is a dissection puzzleconsisting of 7 flat shapes, called TANS, which are puttogether to form shapes. The objective ofthe puzzle is to form a specific shape (given only an outline or silhouette)using all seven pieces(pieces may notoverlap). It is reputed to havebeen invented inChina during the Song Dynasty (was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 andcontinued until 1279),and then carried over to Europe by trading ships in theearly 19thcentury. It became verypopular in Europe for a time then, and then again during World War I.It is one of the mostpopular dissection puzzles in the world. A Chinese psychologist has termed the Tangram "the earliestpsychological test in the world", albeit one made for entertainment ratherthan for analysis. The Tangram challenges the puzzler to produce a given silhouette using all 7 pieces. This Tangram set includes 2 sets of the 7 wooden pieces Tangram (Total of 14 wood pieces) and 64 glossy silhouette cards. Each card showing on one side the silhouette you can try and build, and the solution on the other side, and will provide different challenges and hours upon hours of quality entertainment and fun for the entire family. Since this game offer 2 sets of the 7 pieces Tangram, there is an option to use it as a 2 player game, when a silhouette card is pulled out, and each of the players try to complete the silhouette first, without looking at the solution. The puzzle comes with wooden box and matching lid, for safe keeping of the pieces and cards. Etymology The origin of theword Tangram is unclear. The Tan-' element isvariously conjectured to be Chinese. The '-gram' element is apparently from Greek. History The Tangram hadalready been around in China for a long time when it was first brought toAmerica by Captain M. Donnaldson, on his ship, Trader, in 1815. When itdocked in Canton, the captain was given a pair of Tangram books (by author Sang-Hsia-kois). They were then broughtwith the ship to Philadelphia, where it docked in February 1816. The first Tangram book to be publishedin America was based on the pair brought by Donnaldson. The puzzle was originally popularized by TheEighth Book Of Tan,a fictitious history of Tangram, which claimed thatthe game was invented 4,000 years prior by a god named Tan. The puzzle eventuallyreached England, where it became very fashionable. The craze quickly spread to other European countries, this was mostly due to apair of British Tangram

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Brand	Logic
Theme	Logic
Game Type	Puzzle