GAMES AND GENERATORS

Peces: – A *very* nice Tangram program recently updated to include even more figures. Created by Innocent De Marchi. It comes with 4600 Tangram designs and also allows you to make, save and share your own creations. An online version is available to play on his site. The program also offers 17 other games, all playable at four skill levels, 9 different languages and 7 installation packages, all for free. Wow! Pick the language of your choice when you get to his web site.

Canvas Tangrams: – Canvas Tangrams is an on-going project by Roland Hentschel and Mirco Ackermann to display Tangrams in your browser window using HTML 5, CSS and javascript. Very well done with a large and growing list of shapes. Download your own copy, the link is on the right at the bottom of the page.

LetsTans 1.1: – Grabarchuk Puzzles has a slick looking Tangram game for your iPhone or iPod touch. 64 shapes and three distinct modes of play gives you 192 puzzles with sounds, animations, timer with pause, hints and rotation. If you want it right now, it's available at this Apps Store link.

Wintan 1: This is great! You enter some variables and get a set of possible shapes that you can view and save. You can also use the "Doodle" function to make your own shape. And it's all in a tiny package. Thanks to Eric Warsop for creating and sharing this program with us.  Win 30KB!

Tangram 2002: A stand-alone Flash version to play on your machine. Quick, small and fun, it's by Richard Huntley of Polyhedral Design.  Win 472KB

OOG:   A four in one package by Joe Vitale. Not only can you play Tangrams, you get Pentominoes, Hexagons and Polyominoes. If that's not enough, it's now freeware! Stop by MCM Productions for the user name and password needed to convert it to the registered version.  Win 467KB

Tangram 1.0:   Easy to use freeware by Mark Overmars. It comes with a bonus editor for making your own figure sets to save and trade.  Win 875KB

Tangrams 4.1 Win: / Tangrams 4.1 Mac:   By S. T. Han. The popular (and rightly so) Mac or Windows shareware program.   Win – 203KB/Mac – 406KB