Hands On! Tangrams is a puzzle game for Nintendo DS

Nintendo DS

The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...

. It was released in North America on November 24, 2009.

Tangrams are an ancient set of Chinese moving puzzle pieces that today entertain and challenge people across the globe. Dating back to well before the 19th century, these seven simple shapes or “Tans” come together to form hundreds of different figures with multiple solutions. Tangrams have been used in classrooms around the world for generations to help teach basic math ideas.

Gameplay

There are more than 100 puzzles, grouped into 10 different themes, which come to life once solved. The controls are very straightforward. To move pieces, you simply drag them with your stylus. To rotate, you press the L or R trigger. To flip the pieces, you press Up on the d-pad. There is a timer on each puzzle, and solving within a certain time frame earns you different colored stars. These stars came easily at first, but once I progressed through more levels, they became much harder to earn.

External links

• Island Officials
• Hands On! Tangrams on Gamespy
  GameSpy
  GameSpy Industries, Inc., known simply as GameSpy, is a division of IGN Entertainment, which operates a network of game websites and provides online video game-related services and software. GameSpy dates back to the 1996 release of an internet Quake server search program named QSpy. The current...
  
  
• Hands On! Tangrams on IGN
  IGN
  IGN is an entertainment website that focuses on video games, films, music and other media. IGN's main website comprises several specialty sites or "channels", each occupying a subdomain and covering a specific area of entertainment...
  
  
• Hands On! Tangrams on GameStats
• Hands On! Tangrams on imdb