Day 202: Fun with geometry

It’s Games and Puzzles Day!

Today’s Activity: Make a set of tangrams.

Tangrams are tiles you can use to make designs and solve puzzles — can you arrange them to create a particular silhouette? Here are some printable templates and sample puzzles to get you started, but there are many thousands more designs to attempt that span this puzzle’s 200-year history.

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And here’s a look back to precedented times:

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The last picture on my last walk home across the Manhattan Bridge on my second to last day of work. My last day I worked remote and then NYC shut down a few days later. #precedentedtimes

September 27, 2020

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Catch up on earlier Games and Puzzles days:

• Try a variation on Boggle

• Learn a new language

• Play solitaire with real cards

• Clueless Crosswords

• Play Just a Minute

• Really Bad Chess

• Blaseball

• Sort an Only Connect-style wall

• Play Skribbl

• I’m the banana!

• Solve an acrostic

• Play a road trip game

• Learn to navigate the great outdoors

• Follow mystery puzzles across the web

• Attempt some very hard food-themed puzzles

• Try Haxball

• Play a board game online

• Solve a nonogram

• Hide something in your place for the next residents to find

• Play a game with friends (virtually)

• Invent your own sport

• Write a mad lib

• Solve some tricky puzzle sets

• Exchange coded messages

• Play some great old MS-DOS games on the Internet Archive

• Create an indoor scavenger hunt

• Design a board game

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