The Tangram Book

The Tangram Book
Author: Jerry Slocum
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2004
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781402716881

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.

Tangram

Tangram
Author: Joost Elffers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1999
Genre: Games
ISBN: 9783822870389

Look! What Do You See?

Look! What Do You See?
Author: Bing Xu
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0698186389

A puzzle, a work of art, and a collection of classic American songs, all in an innovative book by one of the world's foremost contemporary artists. Every page of this book is filled with secret code. It seems like Chinese calligraphy, but it’s not. It seems like you can’t read it, but you can. Once the pieces of the puzzle start falling into place, you will understand it all. And some of it may even strike you as strangely familiar . . . Twelve traditional American songs, such as "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and "Yankee Doodle," as well as five classic songs from Chinese culture, are written here in artist Xu Bing's unique "square word calligraphy," which uses one-block words made of English letters. From a distance, these pieces are beautiful but unintelligible art. Up close, they are a mystery just waiting to be solved—like the fine art version of "Magic Eye." For readers ages 7 and up, Look! What Do You See? is perfect for long car rides or coded notes to friends. Incredibly intricate and visually engaging, this is a book that children and adults will return to again and again.

The Book of Tangrams

The Book of Tangrams
Author: Sam Loyd
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2019-03-20
Genre: 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.

A Lifetime of Puzzles

A Lifetime of Puzzles
Author: Erik D. Demaine
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2008-10-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 143986571X

Martin Gardner has entertained the world with his puzzles for decades and inspired countless mathematicians and scientists. As he rounds out another decade, his colleagues are paying him tribute with this special collection that contains contributions from some of the most respected puzzlemasters, magicians and mathematicians, including: - John H. Conway - William R. Gosper - Ed Pegg, Jr. - Roger Penrose - Raymond Smullyan - Peter Winkler. And of course there is something from the original puzzlemaster himself, Martin Gardner.