Lonpos
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- Lonpos is a logic puzzleLogic puzzleA logic puzzle is a puzzle deriving from the mathematics field of deduction.-History:The logic puzzle was first produced by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better known under his pen name Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
game in which the player must fit a fixed number of beaded game pieces of various shapes, to fill a set area such as a rectangle or pyramid. The shapes used in Lonpos puzzles are similar to the shapes known as pentominoPentominoA pentomino is a polyomino composed of five congruent squares, connected along their edges ....
es. Lonpos was named after its creator.
- The Lonpos puzzles are designed using 12 different colors.
- Lonpos has created a number of variations to their game, primarily variations in size and shape of the 2D plane. The 3D plane used for building towers with the pentominoes remains the same.
- Lonpos is popular in JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, with electronic versions available as PC software, as web-based games and on mobile phoneMobile phoneA mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
s. A video game versionLonpos (video game)Lonpos is a puzzle video game by Genki for the Wii, based on the logic puzzle of the same name. Released via WiiWare, it costs 800 Wii Points , with additional downloadable content costing 500 Points for each pack consisting of 25 puzzles and a new visual theme.-Gameplay:The object of the game is...
was released for the WiiWiiThe Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...
in 2008.
- Founded in 1983, Lonpos specializes in puzzle product designs. All development and manufacturing procedures taking place exclusively in Taiwan and are exported there from. Lonpos also adopted a streamlined operation for product export and direct shipments. Lonpos product series are widely recommended and distributed in over 40 countries. The official Lonpos site offers: Complete Lonpos product information and series catalogs, international distributor contact information, free puzzles and trial games, puzzle solution hints, customer service mailbox, new game trials and product demos, and worldwide on-line competition.
2D (plane)
- Puzzles are designed using 12 different colors, to help to develop visual intelligence.
- Combination of planes can help to increase logical intelligence.
- The various shapes of building blocks can be used to train the capability of analogy and induction, and therefore increase the logic and reasoning intelligence of the left brain.
- Combinations of various spaces can be used to train the intelligence of space concept.
- During the puzzle solving process, children can learn the capability of self control and self instruction if the adults remain uninvolved.
- The joy of solving puzzles will cause the brain to produce beta-endorphin and activate the immune system.
- Continuously and extensively using our brain can make our brain works more efficiently.
- There are 371.020 solutions.
3D (pyramid)
- The puzzles include the element of three-dimensional combination of different angle, and can be used to increase the intelligence of space concept.
- The operation of three dimension constructs can help to enhance the space intelligence of right brain.
- Puzzles with even numbers are designed to be solved using the right hand, and puzzles with odd numbers are solved using the left hand. The development of left and right brain will be balanced.
- Children learn to solve the puzzle from imitation to actively thinking, and therefore they can learn to solve the problem on their own and create breakthrough in their daily life.
- Will power and endurance of setbacks will be developed during the process to solve difficult puzzles.
- The coloring action after the puzzle is solved can help to develop the visual intelligence of right brain.
- The brain has to think hard when stacking (solving) the ultra difficult pyramid. Therefore the space intelligence will be greatly enhanced.
- There are 2.448 solutions.