Tangram: The Ancient Chinese Puzzle [Hardcover]

Joost Elffers (Author), Michael Schuyt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1997

Presented in a box with tray for holding the seven puzzle pieces, this book contains 1600 possible silhouettes, their solutions and general tips on how to solve a tangram.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang; Book and Access edition (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556705816
• ISBN-13: 978-1556705816
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #587,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT MIND SHAPING GAME, July 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Tangram: The Ancient Chinese Puzzle (Hardcover)

This game is wonderful. I skipped the philosophy in the book and got straight to the puzzles. Several shaped pieces have to be formed into the solid shape they give you on the page. We go back and do some of the puzzles over and over again because there are SO MANY (like several hundred) puzzles to start with that you never get it mastered. My husband thoroughly enjoyed the book, too. Great gift for the engineer or other visual puzzle person.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brain stimulating game, September 7, 2003

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Tanya Taff (Skokie, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tangram: The Ancient Chinese Puzzle (Hardcover)

I had been on the lookout for some sort of "game" that would help me work on and re-develop better spatial and visual memory skills among other things. I had had a serious head injury in a car accident in 1979, and suffered some "difficulties" as a result. Rehabilitation with a cognitive psychologist at U.of I. in Chicago, IL, started Oct.2002, made me "aware" of the potential for tracing new neural pathways doing work such as with the tangrams. I found the book absolutely marvelous. It has the solutions, which were VERY HELPFUL, and key to my buying the set, and it was PORTABLE, something important for someone who takes buses a lot like I do. I found the history and inmense variety of puzzles really interesting and quite challenging for me. I am tremendously grateful to the authors for having published such a book, for a)including the ANSWERS, b) including diagrams which show very clearly how all of them form one piece, and for the tremendous number of different puzzles. The set has proved to be a "boost" in helping my brain re-learn and re-develop the skills somewhat "damaged" in the car accident. An excellent, excellent buy!!!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best visual logic book on the market, March 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Tangram: The Ancient Chinese Puzzle (Hardcover)

The TangramBook by Joost Elffers shows you the logic of the visual language and the way you can think without words. Best used before the age of 11 but its magic works at all ages.