Ancient China has very rich game culture and Chinese traditional puzzles once influenced greatly the world.
Chinese classic puzzles, such as the Nine Connected Rings, Tangram, Chinese Sliding Block, Six-piece Burr Puzzle, Four People Toy, etc. combine mathematics and games perfectly, thus has a unique function of intellectual development. Westerners collectively referred them as the "Chinese puzzles ", which involves geometry, topology, operations research, and other subjects in math. The History of Chinese Science by Dr. Joseph Needham mentioned Tangram as "one of the oldest Oriental entertainments", Japanese magazine of Mathematical Science called Chinese Sliding Block as the "one of the three large incredible puzzles" and intelligent master Martin Gardener from the United States believes that the renowned western intelligence toy of "Donkey Magic" inspired from Chinese "Four People Toy".
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Tangram
Tangram was invented by the ancient Chinese working people, and it can be traced back to at least the first century BC and matured till the Ming Dynasty. It was widespread in Ming and Qing Dynasty...
Game of Huarong Trail
"The Huarong Trail" is a traditional Chinese intelligence-boosting game tool. The name of the game comes from the story of the same name from Romance of the Three Kingdoms. There are lots of...
Nine Connected Rings
Nine Connected Rings is a Chinese folk toy made by nine connected rings. It can be operated repeatedly in accordance with certain procedures, then 9 rings can be respectively released or unified....