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2. Jigsaw puzzle - Wikipedia

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   e. A jigsaw puzzle (with context, sometimes just jigsaw or just puzzle) is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of often irregularly shaped interlocking and mosaicked pieces, each of which typically has a portion of a picture. When assembled, the puzzle pieces produce a complete picture.

3. Tessellation - Wikipedia

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   A tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics, tessellation can be generalized to higher dimensions and a variety of geometries. A periodic tiling has a repeating pattern. Some special kinds include regular tilings with regular ...

4. Polyominoes: Puzzles, Patterns, Problems, and Packings

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   Polyominoes: Puzzles, Patterns, Problems, and Packings is a mathematics book on polyominoes, the shapes formed by connecting some number of unit squares edge-to-edge. It was written by Solomon Golomb, and is "universally regarded as a classic in recreational mathematics ". [1] The Basic Library List Committee of the Mathematical Association of ...

5. Play Simply Jigsaw Online for Free - AOL.com

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   Simply Jigsaw. Piece together a new jigsaw puzzle every day, complete with themes that follow the seasons and a super useful edges-only tool. By Masque Publishing. Advertisement.

6. Egg of Columbus (tangram puzzle) - Wikipedia

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   The Egg of Columbus ( Ei des Columbus in German) is a dissection puzzle consisting of a flat egg -like shape divided into 9 or 10 pieces by straight cuts. The goal of the puzzle is to rearrange the pieces to form other specific shapes, such as animals (see below). The earliest known examples were produced by German toy manufacturer Richter.

7. Tangram - Wikipedia

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   The tangram ( Chinese: 七巧板; pinyin: qīqiǎobǎn; lit. 'seven boards of skill') is a dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat polygons, called tans, which are put together to form shapes. The objective is to replicate a pattern (given only an outline) generally found in a puzzle book using all seven pieces without overlap.