Tangram

Tangram (also Seven Seven board or cleverness or七巧板Chinese, Pinyin qī qiǎo bǎn ) is an ancient Chinese game that introduces presumably BC was built between the 8th and 4th century. The western name of the patience game seems to be a made-up word, which may have appeal to the Chinese Tang Dynasty.

History

After the beginning of the 19th century, the first original books were printed in China, the game was about 1813 around in Europe and America dissemination. In the German-speaking countries operated the then famous factory F. Ad. Judges and Cie. , K.u.k. Hoflieferanten Rudolstadt, Nuremberg, Vienna, Olten, Rotterdam, New York, the clientele with a pocket edition for the price of 20 pence. This appeared in several editions under the title brainteaser. The success befleißigte the editor to other games of a similar nature, which then appeared under tormentor and Kreuzzerbrecher. The Swedish mathematician Sophus Tromholt brought out in 1892 further to anlehnende to the tangram math placement games that were known under the name of The Nutcracker and Yum Yum.

A Renaissance witnessed the game mid-1970s, as the DuMont -Verlag 1976, a combined book game in paperback bilingual German / Dutch brought out in which about 1600 templates listed.

Legend

According to legend, a monk once asked his students to travel, to paint the essence of the diverse beauty of the world to only one ceramic plate. Unfortunately, broke the board into seven parts, and the student she could not put together into a square.

He tried it for days. Infinitely many patterns and pictures were taken.

At the end of the students understood: He does not have to go out into the world. He can easily find themselves in the seven parts of the broken panel, the beauty and diversity of the world.

Game material

The game consists of seven tiles in simple geometric shapes. The platelets caused by the " cutting " of a square into two large triangles, one medium-sized triangle, two small triangles, a square and a parallelogram.

From these plates countless forms can be placed, then schattenriss like show animals, ships or other shapes. Usually have to be used all the parts, they can not be superimposed.

Variants

There are variations, such as the Magic Egg and the heart of riddles, where other basic forms are based. Even in a circular shape and a rectangle numerous other variants have appeared to date.