tangram

IPA: tɑŋgrʌm

A Chinese puzzle made of a square that is cut up into different triangular pieces which can then be reassembled to make designs.

Examples of "tangram" in Sentences

This is the best tangram puzzle game implementation on the iPhone.
The test is a tangram, forcing you to fit as many as needed of the pieces given into the shape of a rectangle.
The column introduced the public to puzzles and concepts such as fractals and Chinese tangram puzzles, as well as the work of artist M.C. Escher.
Raytheon's MathMovesU invites visitors to create your own roller coaster, construct life-size tangram puzzles, relax in their Cyber Café and more.
I should say the name 'tangram' was probably invented by an American some little time before 1864 and after 1847, but I cannot find it in print before the 1864 edition of
On the appearance of this magazine article, the late Sir James Murray, the eminent philologist, tried, with that amazing industry that characterized all his work, to trace the word "tangram" to its source.
The sharp-witted column, packed with cultural references, humor and accessible logic puzzles instead of academic jargon, featured the mathematical concepts behind fractals, Chinese tangram puzzles, and the art of surrealist M.C. Escher.