The Tangram Fury Alphabet Book I (The Tangram Fury Tangram Puzzle Books 1)

Tangrams are ancient Chinese, mind-bending 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.

The makers of the multi-player, competitive puzzle game, Tangram Fury, have come out with a series of ebooks on tangrams. The Tangram Fury Alphabet Book has a series of puzzles representing each capital letter from the English alphabet. The book is arranged to show a silhouetted puzzle, followed by its solution. When viewed in landscape mode, both the puzzle and the solution can be seen side by side to aid in comparing the two.

Following a brief introduction on tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging puzzles to solve, and their solutions. 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 tips and tricks sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - that part that includes the tangram puzzles of the entire English alphabet - remains unique. There’s also a bonus section of the 3 additional Norwegian vowels, just for fun.

Go on! What are you waiting for? Give it a try! You just might get hooked...