Christmas fun with tangrams!Whether it's elves skiing, baking pies, or meeting under the mistletoe, these tangrams are sure to make you grin as you seek to solve them. Beyond just puzzles to solve are patterns for tangram ornaments, memory matching games, and more. Looking for some unique Christmas activities? You'll find them in here!
New Edition: The contents of this book have been updated to include a grid for solving the puzzles inside the book. The puzzles range in difficulty throughout the book. Some are more challenging than others. All puzzles have solutions using the same 7 tans (shapes). The puzzles can be solved by drawing on the grid, or by using the tangram template provided in the book to make physical tangram pieces (tans).
Note that the printed version of the book has the solutions in grayscale (black and white). Only electronic version of the book have the solutions in color.
Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It's amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes.
Beyond the Tangram: From the inventor of Tangram Fury, comes a Tangram Fury Christmas Activity Book. This book is chalk full of Christmas-themed tangrams to solve, but takes them a step further arranging them within fun activities. Just like the other books in the Tangram Fury puzzle series, it has a series of puzzles arranged to show a silhouetted puzzle, followed by its solution. Then it includes additional activities such as a tangram matching game, tangram Christmas ornaments to design and decorate, tangram Christmas paradoxes to solve, a couple Daily Tangram puzzles to solve, and more. Cut out the activities directly from the book, or photocopy them on sturdy, colored paper for enhanced enjoyment.
Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical Christmas-theme puzzles to solve, and their solutions, and the activities. This is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with tangrams over the years. (Can you solve the unsolvable "Mad Hatter" tangram created by Lewis Carroll?) It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique.This book series was featured on the NewsWatch TV program on Discovery Channel: http: //newswatchtv.com/2015/12/18/tangram-fury/
Whatever time of year it is, 'tis the season for some Tangram fun!
About the Author: Doug Nufer came across tangrams by accident. He was looking up a word in the dictionary and happened upon a diagram of the puzzle. Curious to know what puzzle was so famous that it was in the dictionary, he started to read up on them. Learning that tangrams can form animals, people, buildings, and dozens of other topics, the idea of creating a competitive tangram game hit him. This resulted in the game Tangram Fury. By then, the puzzle bug had fully hit him. He spent his spare time creating new tangram puzzles covering many themes. To date, he has created 800+ tangram puzzles, a dozen themed tangram packs, and even more tangram books. He created most of the tangrams he uses in his books.
