Tangram: The Ancient Chinese Puzzle

Rating:
Summary: Brain stimulating game
Review: 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!!!

Rating:
Summary: Brain stimulating game
Review: 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!!!

Rating:
Summary: Not very interesting
Review: It's not a good book. OK, the introduction is very enlightening.
But the convex tangrams are not interesting(56 pages)!
The figures are given without names. Some pages are almost empty
with a single figure.
The others books i have are more interesting.
The "Tangram (Scholastic Discovery Box)" also by the same author
is more attractive!

Rating:
Summary: GREAT MIND SHAPING GAME
Review: 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.