Curious about tackling tangram puzzles but unsure where to start? Let's break down the difficulty levels of the 24 tangram puzzles included in the Tangram Farm game so you can embark on a fun and rewarding journey!
What are Tangrams?
Tangrams, an centuries-old Chinese puzzle, are a fantastic way to boost your brainpower and spatial reasoning. These puzzles consist of seven flat geometric shapes:
- Two large right triangles
- One medium right triangle
- Two small right triangles
- One square
- One parallelogram
The challenge is to arrange these seven pieces to recreate various figures, silhouettes, or designs. Tangram Farm, a delightful place to start your tangram adventure, offers 24 farm-themed designs to build using these wooden tangram pieces.
Strategizing Your Tangram Puzzle Solving
While numerous tips and strategies exist for solving tangram puzzles, choosing the right puzzle to start with can be daunting. A helpful approach is to identify easily recognizable shapes within the design, reducing the complexity of the puzzle.
Ordering Tangram Farm Puzzles by Difficulty
We can categorize tangram puzzles into five levels of difficulty based on the number of easily identifiable shapes:
- Beginner-Friendly: 4-5 easy-to-spot shape placements
- Easy: 2-3 easy-to-spot shape placements
- Medium: 1 easy-to-spot shape placement
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Hard: 0 easy-to-spot shape placements, but with helpful clues and constraints in the overall puzzle design
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Challenging: 0 easy-to-spot shape placements, with minimal clues and constraints in the puzzle design
1. Beginner-Friendly Tangram Puzzles: Rabbit and Potted Plant
The Rabbit and Potted Plant cards are the easiest tangram puzzles invluded in Tangram Farm. Each showcases 4-5 readily identifiable shapes, making them perfect starting puzzles for beginners.
The Potted Plant puzzle is the most beginner-friendly tangram puzzle in Tangram Farm. This puzzle clearly separates 4 tangram pieces- the two small triangles, square, and parallelogram:
Once you've placed the first 4 pieces in the Potted Plant tangram puzzle, there are only 3 tangram pieces left to build the pot: 2 large triangles and 1 medium triangle.
The Rabbit puzzle is the second most beginner-friendly tangram puzzle featured in Tangram Farm. This puzzle makes it easy to spot the square and medium triangle tangram pieces:
With a little logical reasoning you can also spot the parallelogram and two small right triangles:
As with many tangram puzzles there can be multiple solutions... so whether you use the parallelogram for the ear or arm is up to you! In any case, after placing the first 5 tangram pieces you only have to arrange the 2 large triangles to represent the body and feet of the rabbit.
2. Easy Tangram Puzzles: Farmer, Chick, Bull, Cow, Peacock, Goose, Horse, Crow
While the most beginner-friendly tangram puzzles make it easy to spot 4 or 5 tangram pieces, the next step up features puzzles with 2 or 3 easily spotted pieces, offering a slightly increased challenge.
The Chick, Farmer, Bull, and Cow tangram puzzles have 3 easily-identifiable pieces, leaving only 4 tangram pieces to arrange.
The Peacock, Goose, Horse, and Crow tangram puzzles each have 2 easily-identifiable pieces, leaving only 5 tangram pieces to arrange.
3. Medium Tangram Puzzles: Turkey, Watering Can, Corn, Rooster, Flower Pot, Goat, Apple, Donkey
Medium-difficulty tangram puzzles reveal only one complete shape, demanding more creative problem-solving skills. This gives you a good place to get started, but leaves a significant amount of creative problem solving up to you!
While it can sometimes be difficult to figure out which piece to place next, removing even 1 piece from the collection of 7 tangram pieces can be very helpful in moving toward a correct solution.
Tangram Farm includes 8 Medium-difficulty tangram puzzles: Turkey, Watering Can, Corn, Rooster, Flower Pot, Goat, Apple, Donkey
4. Hard Tangram Puzzles: Duck, Grain Silo, Swan, Pig
These puzzles offer no immediately obvious shapes, requiring trial and error and an intuitive understanding of tangram piece relationships.
The hardest Tangram Farm puzzles don't make it easy to quickly identify a placement for any of the 7 tangram shapes: Duck, Grain Silo, Swan, Pig
5. Challenging Tangram Farm Puzzles: Farm, Butterfly
The most challenging tangram puzzles included in Tangram Farm, Farm and Butterfly, provide minimal visual clues, pushing your spatial reasoning to the limit.
These puzzles make it tough to figure out the placement of any individual tangram piece. And, they offer very few irregular regions to provide clues and constraints for solving the puzzle.
Customize Your Tangram Experience
Tangram Farm's adaptability is a key strength. Tailor the difficulty of the game to your skill level by choosing specific collection of puzzles to play. Start with beginner-friendly and easy options, gradually adding medium and harder challenges as you progress.
If you're new to tangrams and would like to move from Memory Matching and Puzzle Building to Puzzle Solving, try playing the Puzzle Solving version of the game with 16 tiles selected from the Beginner-Friendly and Easy categories. Once you get comfortable, add in the Medium difficulty designs and puzzles. If you're looking for a tough challenge, be sure to include puzzles from the Hard and most Challenging categories in your group of matching tiles.
Tangram Farm: More Than Just a Game
Tangram Farm is more than a memory-matching game. It's a fun and engaging way to develop essential STEM/STEAM skills, promote screen-free quality time, and foster a love for learning. Gift someone this imaginative play experience today!
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