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The Tangram Book: The Story of the Chinese Puzzle with Over 2000 Puzzles to Solve Paperback – November 1, 2004

by Jerry Slocum (Author), Jacob Botermans (Author), Dieter Gebhardt (Author),
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With its exquisite photographs and richly informative text, this is simply the best, the most unique, and the most in-depth study of the ancient and popular Chinese puzzle game.

This first truly comprehensive and beautiful volume on one of the world’s most popular and intriguing puzzles is an authoritative, lavishly photographed history of tangrams, and also a masterful introduction to puzzle solving, with more than 2,000 all-time tangrams. This accurate history of the classic Chinese art form comes from a tangram museum owner and his research team, who discovered many treasures, such as the tangram sets used by Chinese mathematicians 2,200 years ago to test Pythagorean theorems. Photos show how to arrange tangram-shaped antique dinner tables for a variety of themes such as mountain ranges and celebration costumes. Among the puzzles for you to solve: Paradoxical Pairs that appear to be identical but differ in a hard-to-detect detail.
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  1. Print length
    192 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Sterling Publishing
  4. Publication date
    November 1, 2004
  5. Dimensions
    8.25 x 0.25 x 10.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1402716885
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1402716881
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sterling Publishing (November 1, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1402716885
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1402716881
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.25 x 10.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

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Suze VN
5.0 out of 5 stars Boundless inspiration. Yaaaay.
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2019
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I took a beginning glass fusing class and saw an example of Tangram designs. And how funny, it came from my own Beloved Denver Public Library system. A real spark for my imagination. Yaaaay.
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KQW1208
5.0 out of 5 stars Great product
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2019
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Excellent book re: history and puzzle images and solutions..I recommend this book.
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cyn
5.0 out of 5 stars Tangrams
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2011
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I kept buying many different tangram books. After I bought this book I discarded the ones I had since
those designs were represented in Jerry Slocum's book. This was more comprehensive and updated. Plus
it had a bibliography of the original reference sources.
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W. M. Nielson
5.0 out of 5 stars tangrams are amazing fun with such a simple set of pieces to ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2014
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tangrams are amazing fun with such a simple set of pieces to work with. this book shows 2000 puzzle solutions!! fun for all ages.
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Ryuhei UEHARA
5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book.
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2014
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I love this book; the quality is nice, and after order, it reached to me, living in Japan, in a week.
It is nice.
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Santiago Sanz Canalejo
5.0 out of 5 stars The best about Tangram
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2014
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Without doubt, the most complete book about Tangram. Lots of shapes (with solution) and an extensive explanation about its history.
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Alan Ewy
5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks!
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2014
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Thank you for a fine resource for future projects!
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M. J. Smith
4.0 out of 5 stars Tantalizing
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2004
This is a thoroughly researched book on the history of tangrams - written as a telling of the team's search through materials. This telling shows that they approached discovering the true history of tangrams in the same manner they would approach any other puzzle. The result is a book that is "a fun read."

However, frequently the book left me wanting more. For example, it mentions and describes to varying degrees related puzzles - stomachian, Japanese 15 and 19 piece sets, Chinese butterfly wing tables (7 and 13 piece), Russian 12 piece set, French 16 piece set ... Piece shapes and sample puzzles are not given for all of these. Samples of beautiful pictoral sets of faces, buildings ... are given leaving me wanting even more samples and frustrated at the occasionally overlapping pictures or small size. Finally, the book gives as puzzles about 40% of the puzzles identified in their research; yet no clue is given for the criteria of selection.

However, any book that leaves the reader wanting more is a success. This book of tangrams should leave you busy for several years (if you don't cheat and use the answers).
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Lindsay
5.0 out of 5 stars good response from seller
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2013
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delivery was good during xmas post and product a good price and not many others available-would recommend this book together with the Children Colorful Wooden Puzzle Brain Training 7 Parts Geometry Tangram which is about £3
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