Doug Nufer

As if I’ve come to some lovely new my dazed eyes alit in awe; my capacity for alive lucidity developed in a mere minute to be purely moved in a dedicated anatomy Nufer avowed in a literary mode.Ava FedorovLifeline Rule's a very nicely devised, original tales of a delicate nature salute fine, wary humility before set executive-like power. A line tined, a rare body, finely divided, amuses even an irate cynic. Acute but agile, secure but arid, it iterates a syrupy, wide core. Definitively pawed open (amused or even elated), it is upon a total anatomy—careful, icily solid—it emanates a pure tone, like we get in a rosy, natural orifice. How it entices in a dive! Seduces in a move to lure! Cajoles as a siren! Is it inimical? I’d imagine no. But it is alive—solely here, now upon us. A sum of a total or a sole minus, it is, I muse, never a line more but a dire model of itemized, evocative names in a hopeful ode—sole lyric arisen above roles, afore-now unexamined or unelicited. I to revere Nufer is a fit; it is even useful. One can open one’s eyes in awe, but one can even adore how agile, he wisely (re)defines animaly palaver in a lexicon... or is it a paradox? One to be polared? A-hah! I go for it. One fan of, I hope, many to come.Katy Masuga

In this rueful tale, written under a simple but pervasive formal constraint, Olympic gold medal winner Ken Honochick and his girlfriend take a cross-country road trip to revisit his brief moment of triumph and his subsequent long haul on the promotions circuit. The result is a smart, flirtatious tour-de-force thats as funny as it is inventive. Under all the comic gusto and technical virtuosity, however, theres also some penetrating thought on our countrys obsession with private foibles and public image, individual achievement and the pressure to cash in on it.

Doug Nufer writes fiction, poetry, and performance pieces that seem to be based on formal constraints even when they are not. Never Again, the most audacious example of his work to date, is a novel in which no word appears more than once. It is the story of a gambler who narrates how he set out to avoid the mistakes of his past by doing (and saying) nothing he ever did (or said) before.

In 2002, Doug Nufer wrote a story narrated by a tout, who proposed a novel way to beat the races. It was so absurd and ludicrous it gave him an idea. So Nufer went to Emerald Downs, home of thoroughbred racing in the Northwest. There, he split himself into three characters modeled on the heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa. Using a money management plan from a James Kelman short story, Nufer gave these characters money and set them free to gamble. He returned to the track every week for a full season, and his characters/heteronyms continued to bet, with real money and in the name of art. At the end of the season, he had pages of data in the form of a wagering diary, the outcome of a literary experiment that formed the basis of this literal experimental novel.

In this dazzling cycle of poems, Doug Nufer, wizardly author of poetry and prose works based on formal constraints, starts with a simple constructive rule, exemplified by its title: present a sequence of letters, grouped into a word or words; follow it by the same sequence, differently grouped; repeat. This foundational principle, ruthless in its purity, gives rise, like a jazzy passacaglia, to the most diverse forms, whose endless variations murder and reproduce like cellular automata creeping across the page. In the mind and ear of the reader, meanings, rhythms and sounds burst into dizzying presence and are swept away with ebullient panache. Nufer's art here is a high-energy high- wire act of wit, joining formal severity with frivolity and making stops at all points in between. Don't be afraid, Reader, to take the local and spend some time on this tour, bar-hopping with your precise yet whimsical guide across an initially alien but ultimately friendly and stimulating space—you will end up welcoming the cheerful pop of your newly effervescent brain exploding.

Fiction. Possibly the Northwest's first, full-fledged mock biography of a fictional CEO who created a coffee empire and sipped the soul out of a city. Authored by a twice removed hand, or, the truth laid bare through a series of fictions.

Poetry. "WE WERE WEREWOLVES uses constraints to open up the English language to deeper and darker humours than any your basic run-of-the-mill prosaic verse can begin to imagine. The insistent permutations of alphabetical sounds, the severe word love run through film noir-based tonalities, & the small-to-epic scale of reordering found in so many of these Nuferian arrangements lay bare a gleeful prosody of the nervous system. Pleasure level mighty high"--Anselm Berrigan.

Lounge Acts by Doug Nufer Paperback, 66 pages 5.5" x 8.5" x 0.25" 978-0-9814623-8-7 "Nufer tells the truth, even though he knows as well as the lord above the truth is over-rated. Nufer is a poet who has you in the corner, eye to eye, giving you the skinny, or maybe he's with you at the counter, sharing secrets, his hand grabbing yr arm the more he realizes yr ok. That's how damn good a writer he is." -Thurston Moore "Lounge is by its nature a mixologist's soundtrack, or, as Doug Nufer-no stranger to the fillies he-might crack, a track sound for the Gin Ricky playing back bar. And here, Nufer swings.." -Vanessa Place "I can't define that book. Sometimes I think it's a book of poetry, sometimes I think it's a reference book, sometimes I think it's a conceptual art piece. It flows in and out of different contexts. I believe it will be received by the poetry world, by the writing world that I'm involved with. It got really juiced in the music world. We got major juice." -Kenneth Goldsmith

Doug Nufer pays tribute to the flip-over format popularized by Ace Doubles. These two novels reflect and refer to each other, as the author pursues his mad dream to revive a crafty format of convenience as an art form of necessity.

Fiction. In 2002, Doug Nufer wrote a story narrated by a tout, who proposed a novel way to beat the races. It was so absurd and ludicrous it gave him an idea. So Nufer went to Emerald Downs, home of thoroughbred racing in the Northwest. There, he split himself into three characters modeled on the heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa. Using a money management plan from a James Kelman short story, Nufer gave these characters money and set them free to gamble. He returned to the track every week for a full season, and his characters/heteronyms continued to bet, with real money and in the name of art. At the end of the season, he had pages of data in the form of a wagering diary, the outcome of a literary experiment that formed the basis of a literal experimental novel.

Poetry. Art. Illustrated by James Siena. ROTALEVER REVELATOR is a book made from words that spell other words a giant palindrome that contains poems about geography, dams, swamps, celebrities, eponyms, and the news. There's also a translation of the first part of "Burnt Norton" and a multi-lingual section, "O Rue Euro," with German, French, Italian, and Spanish beating up on English, and vice-versa.Flip the book over, and you have Revelator the same sequence of letters, differently divided into words and punctuated.Doug Nufer's stop-at-nothing inventiveness, an object lesson in transforming the merest opportunity into delight, is matched here by James Siena's stylish illustrations.

In METAMORPHOSIS, Doug Nufer first metamorphoses The Metamorphosis, Kafka's famous story, by subjecting a composite English translation of Kafka's full text to anagrammatic transformations that carefully retain the semantic outline of the original, but submerge it into the bubbling stew of zany detail that emerges from Nufer’s richly inventive, often hilarious, and strangely beautiful wordplay. Then he turns his attention to an iconic excerpt from the beginning of the German text, rendering it into a dizzyingly diverse series of shapes and effects by various technical means in a virtuosic demonstration reminiscent of Queneau's Exercises in Style. "I wonder where my project belongs," Nufer writes in an afterword; "Maybe the appeal of venturing into a maze of translations and other constraints is analogous to the appeal a traveling salesman living with his parents and sister at the turn of the last century might have felt when, at the end of another awful day of work, he took up his needles to play."

Having survived a plane crash into the open ocean during a fierce nighttime storm, a man is roused from unconsciousness by a voice shouting at him to open the exit door. Bewildered, he obeys and his quest to get out of the plane and to safety begins. This intense short story will pull the reader into the plane and into the sea on a quest for survival. It picks up in the midst of the action and doesn't let go.

Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It’s amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes.This print-and-play ebook includes puzzles to solve, in different venues or scenarios, with each one involving tangrams in one way or another.Activities included in this Print-and-Play book: * Race-the-clock Tangram Puzzles* 3D Tangram Cube to build* Solve the Tangram in the Grid* Solve the Paradox Tangrams* Matching Game with Tangram Cards* 2D Tangram Chess* 2D Tangram Checkers...plus educational information about polygons, lines and tangrams.

Dr. Steiner had once given a lecture with a live bat sticking out of his lab coat pocket. He ignored it as it crawled around his shoulders. He then flicked off the lights to begin a film, and basked in the nervous twitters and screams from his students. Dr. Steiner studied bats by exploring deep inside abandoned copper mines in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. When he told his son, David, that he could bring a few of his friends with him on his next trip, all of the teenagers jumped at the offer.This short story chronicles that journey and brings the reader deep down into a place no reader should ever actually go. Along the way, Dr. Steiner will offer interesting tidbits and tales of bats, mines, and the tragic and true Italian Hall Disaster of 1913.

Discover the world of tangrams! The Tangram Fury Parks & Sites Book has a series of original puzzles representing fun images of famous people, sites, or monuments throughout the world, all done up as tangram puzzles. These include such things as the Eiffel Tower, Denmark's Little Mermaid, the Statue of Liberty, Lindberg's plane the Spirit of St. Louis, an Alpine horn, the Liberty Bell, Utah’s Delicate Arch, the Sydney Opera House, the Matterhorn, Sacajawea, a Viking Helmet, and many others. You may even find Bigfoot lurking about on the pages. New The contents of this book have been updated to include a grid for solving the puzzles inside the book. The puzzles range in difficulty throughout the book. Some are more challenging than others. All puzzles have solutions using the same 7 tans (shapes). The puzzles can be solved by drawing on the grid, or by using the tangram template provided in the book to make physical tangram pieces (tans). Note that the printed version of the book has the solutions in grayscale (black and white). Only the electronic version of the book has the solutions in color. Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It’s amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes. Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical Christmas-theme puzzles to solve, and their solutions, and the activities. This is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with tangrams over the years. (Can you solve the unsolvable “Mad Hatter” tangram created by Lewis Carroll?) It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique. This book series was featured on the NewsWatch TV program on Discovery Bringing tangrams into the 21st Century

This short story is much more poignant than pleasant. It illustrates the harmful effects that cruel words and actions can have on an individual's sense of self worth. It also illustrates how even those with the lowest sense of worth can step up and be heroic when the times call for it. In this case, a boy who has been labeled as a "loser" seemingly can't shake that reputation even in adulthood.

Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a tangram! The Tangram Fury Comic Con Book has a series of original puzzles representing fun images of famous characters one might meet at a Comic Con, all done up as tangram puzzles. These include several from the Lord of the Rings books and films, Spiderman, a TMNT, the Karate Kid, Katniss, Harry on a broom, the Hulk, Thor's hammer, Napoleon, and several others. The author has met many of the actors that these tangrams pay tribute to, and given them copies of their personalized puzzles. New The contents of this book have been updated to include a grid for solving the puzzles inside the book. The puzzles range in difficulty throughout the book. Some are more challenging than others. All puzzles have solutions using the same 7 tans (shapes). The puzzles can be solved by drawing on the grid, or by using the tangram template provided in the book to make physical tangram pieces (tans). Note that the printed version of the book has the solutions in grayscale (black and white). Only the electronic version of the book has the solutions in color. Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It’s amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes. Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical Christmas-theme puzzles to solve, and their solutions, and the activities. This is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with tangrams over the years. (Can you solve the unsolvable “Mad Hatter” tangram created by Lewis Carroll?) It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique. This book series was featured on the NewsWatch TV program on Discovery Bringing tangrams into the 21st Century

Bringing Tangrams into the 21st Century! New The contents of this book have been updated to include a grid for solving the puzzles inside the book. The puzzles range in difficulty throughout the book. Some are more challenging than others. All puzzles have solutions using the same 7 tans (shapes). The puzzles can be solved by drawing on the grid, or by using the tangram template provided in the book to make physical tangram pieces (tans). Note that the printed version of the book has the solutions in grayscale (black and white). Only electronic versions of the book have the solutions in color. Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It's amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes. This book is a veritable tangram menagerie. It contains all sorts of critters from a praying mantis, armadillo, alligator, wolf, monkeys, and a skunk to a turtle, goat, buffalo, ferret, dogs, and even the Easter Bunny. Take your time, or race the clock, a friend, or your own mind to solve these fun puzzles. Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical puzzles to solve. The book is arranged to show a silhouetted puzzle, followed by its solution. This main section is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with them over the years. It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books in this series are essentially the same, but the heart of the books - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique. The vast majority of the puzzles have been designed by the author, Doug Nufer. This book series was featured on the NewsWatch TV program on Discovery Go on! What are you waiting for? Give it a try! You just might get hooked...

Howdy, pardner, this tangram book is big enough for the two of us! The Wild West was quite the place. This book is dedicated to some of the people, critters, and things that could be found there. From cowboys and Indians, to sandstone arches and cabins, these tangrams have plenty of old time memories to celebrate. Race a friend, yourself, or the clock to solve them all, or just take your time and mosey on through each one. Whatever suits you best! New The contents of this book have been updated to include a grid for solving the puzzles inside the book. The puzzles range in difficulty throughout the book. Some are more challenging than others. All puzzles have solutions using the same 7 tans (shapes). The puzzles can be solved by drawing on the grid, or by using the tangram template provided in the book to make physical tangram pieces (tans). Note that the printed version of the book has the solutions in grayscale (black and white). Only the electronic version of the book has the solutions in color. Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It’s amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes. Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical Christmas-theme puzzles to solve, and their solutions, and the activities. This is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with tangrams over the years. (Can you solve the unsolvable “Mad Hatter” tangram created by Lewis Carroll?) It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique. This book series was featured on the NewsWatch TV program on Discovery Bringing tangrams into the 21st Century

Discover the world of tangrams! This book is dedicated to tangram paradoxes. A tangram paradox is a pair of tangram puzzles that are virtually identical, except for one small difference. It may seem that a piece is missing, or an area added. Either way, this books if full of interesting and fun puzzles that share, or rather miss, something in common. New The contents of this book have been updated to include a grid for solving the puzzles inside the book. The puzzles range in difficulty throughout the book. Some are more challenging than others. All puzzles have solutions using the same 7 tans (shapes). The puzzles can be solved by drawing on the grid, or by using the tangram template provided in the book to make physical tangram pieces (tans). Note that the printed version of the book has the solutions in grayscale (black and white). Only the electronic version of the book has the solutions in color. Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It’s amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes. Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical Christmas-theme puzzles to solve, and their solutions, and the activities. This is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with tangrams over the years. (Can you solve the unsolvable “Mad Hatter” tangram created by Lewis Carroll?) It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique. This book series was featured on the NewsWatch TV program on Discovery Bringing tangrams into the 21st Century

Discover the world of tangrams! The Tangram Fury Science Book has a series of original puzzles representing fun, science-related images, all done up as tangram puzzles. These include such things as scientists that are both ingenious and perhaps a bit unlucky. There are also plenty of telescopes, microscopes, computers, and such. There are even a few candles in honor of ancient scientists. A few rockets and space objects are included for some of the discoveries science has uncovered. New The contents of this book have been updated to include a grid for solving the puzzles inside the book. The puzzles range in difficulty throughout the book. Some are more challenging than others. All puzzles have solutions using the same 7 tans (shapes). The puzzles can be solved by drawing on the grid, or by using the tangram template provided in the book to make physical tangram pieces (tans). Note that the printed version of the book has the solutions in grayscale (black and white). Only the electronic version of the book has the solutions in color. Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It’s amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes. Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical Christmas-theme puzzles to solve, and their solutions, and the activities. This is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with tangrams over the years. (Can you solve the unsolvable “Mad Hatter” tangram created by Lewis Carroll?) It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique. This book series was featured on the NewsWatch TV program on Discovery Bringing tangrams into the 21st Century

This is a short story with a twist, and not just a peppermint twist. In a bizarre reality, Roger finds that while he’s not addicted to candy, candy seems to be addicted to him – and not just passionately, but aggressively. This is fun tale of another man's woes, as he finds it necessary to deal with a highly unlikely scenario."...[Candies were] bouncing off of each other, popping up here and there, as others swarmed over them like hungry ants. If it weren’t so terrifyingly bizarre, it would have almost been humorous. Chocolate bars were bullying tiny gummy bears, which fought back by ganging up on the bars and tearing them in two. The two halves would then bound after them like twin hounds on the hunt...There seemed to be a remote possibility that the fighting amongst themselves would give Roger and me a chance to make our getaway...."Enjoy some sweets before reading, because you may never look at candy the same again.

Say ya to da tangram, eh! Michigan's Upper Peninsula (or UP) is a pristine land of clean, clear water, endless dense forests, miles and miles of rivers and trails, and quirky people from the UP known as Yoopers who have a unique take on the English language and their manner of living life and treating strangers as welcomed friends. This book is dedicated to da Yoopers. There are snowmobilers, skiers, campers, animals and more. If you're lucky, you might even find a snipe from an infamous snipe hunt. New The contents of this book have been updated to include a grid for solving the puzzles inside the book. The puzzles range in difficulty throughout the book. Some are more challenging than others. All puzzles have solutions using the same 7 tans (shapes). The puzzles can be solved by drawing on the grid, or by using the tangram template provided in the book to make physical tangram pieces (tans). Note that the printed version of the book has the solutions in grayscale (black and white). Only the electronic version of the book has the solutions in color. Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It’s amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes. Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical Christmas-theme puzzles to solve, and their solutions, and the activities. This is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with tangrams over the years. (Can you solve the unsolvable “Mad Hatter” tangram created by Lewis Carroll?) It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique. This book series was featured on the NewsWatch TV program on Discovery Bringing tangrams into the 21st Century

Solving tangrams at warp speed! The Tangram Fury Sci Fi Book has a series of original puzzles representing fun images of Sci Fi related characters all done up as tangram puzzles. These include characters from such films as Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, Doctor Who, Back to the Future, Batman and others. New The contents of this book have been updated to include a grid for solving the puzzles inside the book. The puzzles range in difficulty throughout the book. Some are more challenging than others. All puzzles have solutions using the same 7 tans (shapes). The puzzles can be solved by drawing on the grid, or by using the tangram template provided in the book to make physical tangram pieces (tans). Note that the printed version of the book has the solutions in grayscale (black and white). Only the electronic version of the book has the solutions in color. Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It’s amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes. Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical Christmas-theme puzzles to solve, and their solutions, and the activities. This is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with tangrams over the years. (Can you solve the unsolvable “Mad Hatter” tangram created by Lewis Carroll?) It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique. This book series was featured on the NewsWatch TV program on Discovery Bringing tangrams into the 21st Century – and beyond!

Old MacDonald had a tangram! The Tangram Fury Farm Book has a series of original puzzles representing fun images of people, animals, buildings and other farm items all done up as tangram puzzles. In this book, you’ll find tangram puzzles of critters and things one might find on a farm. These include dogs, cats, horses, a pig, roosters, a sneaky fox, chickens, roosters, a bull, and other critters. It also includes a farmhouse, barn, silos, and such. Of course, there are also farmers (complete with one dancing in his overalls) and a sweet lady laboring over a butter churn. New The contents of this book have been updated to include a grid for solving the puzzles inside the book. The puzzles range in difficulty throughout the book. Some are more challenging than others. All puzzles have solutions using the same 7 tans (shapes). The puzzles can be solved by drawing on the grid, or by using the tangram template provided in the book to make physical tangram pieces (tans). Note that the printed version of the book has the solutions in grayscale (black and white). Only the electronic version of the book has the solutions in color. Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It’s amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes. Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical Christmas-theme puzzles to solve, and their solutions, and the activities. This is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with tangrams over the years. (Can you solve the unsolvable “Mad Hatter” tangram created by Lewis Carroll?) It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique. This book series was featured on the NewsWatch TV program on Discovery Bringing tangrams into the 21st Century!

1 – 2 – 3 Tangram! The Tangram Fury Numbers Book has a series of original puzzles representing fun images of numbers, but rather fittingly, the number tangrams make up only a small percentage of the tangrams in this book.This book goes beyond numbers to provide perhaps the most eclectic collection of tangrams in this book series. They range from a centaur to a painter to a dog in a hat to a table to very odd designs and, as the subtitle says, so much more. New The contents of this book have been updated to include a grid for solving the puzzles inside the book. The puzzles range in difficulty throughout the book. Some are more challenging than others. All puzzles have solutions using the same 7 tans (shapes). The puzzles can be solved by drawing on the grid, or by using the tangram template provided in the book to make physical tangram pieces (tans). Note that the printed version of the book has the solutions in grayscale (black and white). Only the electronic version of the book has the solutions in color. Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It’s amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes. Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical Christmas-theme puzzles to solve, and their solutions, and the activities. This is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with tangrams over the years. (Can you solve the unsolvable “Mad Hatter” tangram created by Lewis Carroll?) It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique. This book series was featured on the NewsWatch TV program on Discovery Surely you can solve all of these, after all, we’re counting on you!

T is for Tangram! The Tangram Fury Alphabet Book has a series of puzzles representing each uppercase and lowercase letter from the English alphabet. Just like the other books in the Tangram Fury puzzle series, it has a series of puzzles arranged to show a silhouetted puzzle, followed by its solution. New The contents of this book have been updated to include a grid for solving the puzzles inside the book. The puzzles range in difficulty throughout the book. Some are more challenging than others. All puzzles have solutions using the same 7 tans (shapes). The puzzles can be solved by drawing on the grid, or by using the tangram template provided in the book to make physical tangram pieces (tans). Note that the printed version of the book has the solutions in grayscale (black and white). Only the electronic version of the book has the solutions in color. Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It’s amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes. Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical Christmas-theme puzzles to solve, and their solutions, and the activities. This is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with tangrams over the years. (Can you solve the unsolvable “Mad Hatter” tangram created by Lewis Carroll?) It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique. This book series was featured on the NewsWatch TV program on Discovery Bringing tangrams into the 21st Century!

’Tis the season to tangram! Whether you admire the Nativity, enjoy singing about the 12 Days of Christmas, or like whimsical little elves, this book has the puzzles for you! The Tangram Fury Christmas Book has a series of puzzles representing fun images of the Nativity as well as other Christmas themes, all done up as tangram puzzles. New The contents of this book have been updated to include a grid for solving the puzzles inside the book. The puzzles range in difficulty throughout the book. Some are more challenging than others. All puzzles have solutions using the same 7 tans (shapes). The puzzles can be solved by drawing on the grid, or by using the tangram template provided in the book to make physical tangram pieces (tans). Note that the printed version of the book has the solutions in grayscale (black and white). Only the electronic version of the book has the solutions in color. Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It’s amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes. Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical Christmas-theme puzzles to solve, and their solutions, and the activities. This is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with tangrams over the years. (Can you solve the unsolvable “Mad Hatter” tangram created by Lewis Carroll?) It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique. This book series was featured on the NewsWatch TV program on Discovery Bringing tangrams into the 21st Century – and to the North Pole!

Tangrams are ancient Chinese, ingenious puzzles. They are deceptively simple in design, yet can stump even the most seasoned of puzzlers. Then, the light clicks on and the answer suddenly seems so obvious. It’s amazing that so many puzzles can be solved with the exact same 7 shapes.The makers of the multi-player, competitive puzzle game, Tangram Fury, have come out with a series of ebooks on tangrams. The Tangram Fury Western Book has a series of puzzles representing fun images of the Old West, from cowboys and Indians, to cacti and wolves, to buffalo and boots, and more, all done up as tangram puzzles.The book is arranged to show a silhouetted puzzle, followed by its solution. When viewed in landscape mode, both the puzzle and the solution can be seen side by side to aid in comparing the two. It includes a printable pattern for cutting out tangram pieces to aid in physically solving the puzzles.Following a brief introduction to tangrams, the main portion of the book provides challenging or whimsical puzzles to solve, and their solutions. This is followed by tidbits and trivia about tangrams and some famous people who have tinkered with tangrams over the years. (Can you solve the unsolvable “Mad Hatter” tangram created by Lewis Carroll?) It also provides some tips and suggestions for those with a competitive streak. The text sections of the books are largely the same in all books in the series, but the heart of the book - the part that includes the tangram puzzles - remains unique.Go on! What are you waiting for? Give it a try! You just might get hooked...