Neves DS Review

12:08pm Wednesday 9th April 2008

Tangram puzzler from Ignition Entertainment A tangram is an ancient Chinese puzzle also known as "seven pieces of cleverness.". Tangram is a dissection puzzle, It consists of seven pieces, called tans, which fit together to form a shape of some sort. The shape has to contain all the pieces, which may not overlap.

The origins of the tangram puzzle are not known with any certainty, but the idea is thought to have originated in China about 250 years ago and Ignition entertainment bring us a bang up to date modern take on the ancient puzzler.

Neves has 500 Tangrams for you to solve starting at a quite easy difficulty level for the first few puzzles and they increase in difficulty as you go with some of them seeming impossible at first glance but a bit of perseverance and you will solve them which can be very rewarding as you really have to stretch the grey matter to work some of them out.

There are four different game modes to go at Silhouettes the standard puzzle mode with 500 puzzles to solve with no time limits, Time pressure same as Silhouettes but with a time limit of 3 minutes, 7 steps a rock hard mode where you must place the pieces perfectly at the first attempt and Bragging rights a multiplayer download and play mode where you race an opponent on his own DS to sove puzzles.

Gameplay wise it couldn't be any simpler you drag your pieces into the sihouette, double tap them to flip them or drag the corners of the pieces to spin them into the right position.

As puzzle games go this is right up there with the best of them, The harder the Tangrams get the more addictive they seem to be. With the holiday season approaching this is perfect poolside entertainment just becareful not to lauch the DS in the pool.

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