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n. - A Chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs.

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  • I should say the name 'tangram' was probably invented by an American some little time before 1864 and after 1847, but I cannot find it in print before the 1864 edition of
  • On the appearance of this magazine article, the late Sir James Murray, the eminent philologist, tried, with that amazing industry that characterized all his work, to trace the...
  • This is the best tangram puzzle game implementation on the iPhone.
  • The test is a tangram, forcing you to fit as many as needed of the pieces given into the shape of a rectangle.
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