tangram

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Les Sept Planches de la Ruse (The Seven Boards of Skill) is inspired by tangram, an ancient Chinese geometric puzzle composed of seven tiles that can be manipulated in a nearly infinite number of combinations.

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  1. noun A Chinese puzzle consisting of a square cut into five triangles, a square, and a rhomboid, to be reassembled into different figures.

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  • The original NEVES was a tangram puzzle game on the DS. —  Aussie-Nintendo.com Forums
  • I got brick wall and the tangram looking one for my kids for Christmas. —  PW FULL RSS FEED
  • NEVES Plus is a deceptively challenging puzzle game that packs over 500 tangram-style puzzles appropriate for gamers of all ages. —  IGN Complete
  • NEVES, Yuke's Company's tangram-based DS puzzle game, is migrating to WiiWare in Q2. —  Joystiq [Nintendo]
  • A large number of other designs will be found in an article by me in The Strand Magazine for November, 1908 Illustration: 2 Illustration: 3 Illustration: 4 On the appearance of this magazine article, the late Sir James Murray, the eminent philologist, tried, with that amazing industry that characterized all his work, to trace the word "tangram" to its source. —  Amusements in Mathematics
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  1. Perhaps partial translation of Chinese (Mandarin) táng tú : táng, Tang (Chinese dynasty) + tú, picture, diagram.
 

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