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Basically you have to fill a box with four trapezoids and a small square. You can rotate each shape - if that helps - but I’m convinced that the shapes won’t fit either way! I’m sure I’m wrong, but someone, please… tell me how it’s done.
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Basically you have to fill a box with four trapezoids and a small square. You can rotate each shape - if that helps - but I’m convinced that the shapes won’t fit either way! I’m sure I’m wrong, but someone, please… tell me how it’s done.
I don’t think it can be done. I tried fitting the five pieces roughly into the square and the total space looks far greater than their collective areas. I put the blue square in the lower right corner, the grey quadrilateral on top of it, the light brown quad to the immediate left, the dark brown quad above (rotated 45[sup]o[/sup] clockwise and slid intro the upper right corner) and the pinkish-red piece (if it was me, I’d’ve chosen more distinctive colours) isn’t nearly big enough to cover the remaining space, even accounting for the slight overlap with one or more of the other pieces.
That’s the same conclusion I reached, Bryan. Unless there’s a large amount of trickery involved, that little bit of overhang isn’t enough to fill all that empty space.
I tried some of the more obvious tricks, like resizing the white box; holding down ALT and/or CONTROL to see if I could duplicate one of the five pieces; hitting TAB to see if there was a hidden piece or control. If there’s a trick, it’s beyond my patience to find.
I think it can be filled.This is a Chinese Tanagram puzzle.I got one as a Christmas present years ago
Then there must be a Feng Shui thing going on, because I dunno how to make five pieces with a collective size of 10[sup]2[/sup] cover a box with a total area of 11[sup]2[/sup].
Sorry.Its called a Tangram
But the goal is not filling the box. It’s to make the pieces fit inside the perimeter without overlapping each other. There can be white space showing inside, as long as all the pieces are inside and not overlapping.
No, I couldn’t do that either, but it almost sounded like it for a minute, didn’t it?
Let me clarify that first sentence. Please? Oh C’mon…
“Filling the box” is not the goal. The goal is to make the pieces fit…yadda, yadda
There, that’s better. Thanks.
No, I still haven’t…
Can you go on the edge outline just not overhang it?
If so I put brown lower left, orange lower right.
Flip the grey and pink pieces 180 degrees.
Grey upper left, pink upper right.
Blue box goes between the two top pieces.
There’s no trickery; it (that is, getting all five pieces inside the box; they don’t quite fill it) can be done.
Hint:Put the square in the center, rotated 45°.
You don’t need to do more than touch the grey edge. If you use zoom you can get it pixel perfect, at which point you get a congratulations message.
clockwise arround the tilted square, grey, pink, brown, orange
??? I can’t get any of the shapes to move. Click and drag doesn’t work. I can rotate them but not move them from the bottom of the screen. WTF?
I can’t get the pieces to move either, and i can’t even get them to rotate, except for the square, which rotates when i’m not looking.
Heh, silly me, not reading the instructions. I’d assumed like most Tangram puzzles, the point was to fill the box. I’ll give it a shot, now.
The pieces should move with a typical drag of the mouse. You turn them by holding down the shift key and clicking (one click per rotation). If you can’t do that, there may be something wrong with your connection, etc.
And dammit, I still can’t get it. I can get them all in, but there’s still slight overlap - enough that I’m not getting any pats on the back from the damn thing. I’ve even checked the spoilers here and can’t get it it using the second one. Maybe a more specific spoiler? (Not that I want to ruin my fun, I’d just like to keep some of my hair intact. Thankfully, I’ve got plenty.)
Starting from which corner and at what orientation for each piece. No matter how I try it, I’m still getting ring around the collar…I mean, overlap of the pieces inside. (They are within the box frame but overlapping each other.)
Did your really get the magic message? I’m so jealous.
I did it, but no message. I have little patience for getting it pixel perfect.
Complete spoiler:
The blue piece goes in the center, just slighly above center rotated 45 degrees. All other pieces have their slanted edge touching the border. The grey piece is at the upper right hand corner, it’s slanted edge touching the right border. The pink piece’s slanted edge touches the bottom border, the brown’s touches the left border, and the orange at the top. Adjust from there. You should be able to see white lines in between the pieces.
If anyone gets the message via the solution above, please let me know.
Yeah, dnooman, I managed to complete it and get the message by using your instructions, although it was indeed a bit fiddly.
However, after several attempts I found it more exacting to:
Start with the grey piece because you are placing it right into the top right corner, then using its square end as a guide for the blue piece. If the blue square is flush with the ‘bottom’ of the grey piece, then it’s in the correct place and it’s just a matter of adding the other pieces as per your walkthrough.
Cool. I tried to get the message after I posted, but ran out of patience.
Your order of placing them is more accurate I’m sure. I should have included steps rather than just describing where the parts are. Someone should tell Ebaum that it’s solvable.