Tangram :

The Tangram is a chinese puzzle. The object is to put seven geometric shapes together so as to form a given outline. All the pieces must be used and are laid next to one another. The pieces are five triangles, a square and a parallelogram:

Sometimes there is more than one solution. They're all accepted as long as they have the same outline. For example the red and the blue figures below are NOT the same.

gTans features:

• 290 figures.
• Help and solution.
• Most of the game colors and textures are configurable.
• Native Language Support via GNU gettext.
• Resizeable window.
• The size of the pieces (relative to the game area) may be changed.
• The solved figures are remembered.

Requirements :

• A Linux/Unix machine.
• GTK+ library version 1.2.1 or later.
  

gTans has been tested on Linux/Intel (Slackware 7.0 and Mandrake 6.0) and Solaris/Sparc. It works with FreeBSD, probably with Linux/UltraSparc (version 1.0 did) and maybe other Unices (please let me know).

Screenshots :

Download :

Source files:

Binary :

Additional NLS files :

If you're interested in adding support for a new language, the files (from the sources package) to translate are gtans-1.2/gtanshelp.txt and gtans-1.2/po/gtans.po.

Additional figures files :

Simply unzip the file (> gunzip somefile.figures.gz). You may want to put it with the other ones in /usr/share/gtans/figures/ (or /usr/share/games/gtans/figures/).

History :

1.2 :

1.1 :

1.0 :

0.1 :

To do:

• Add more figures (actually 290).
• Add a figure editor (at last : I promise it since v0.1 !).
• GNOMEification.

Feel free to send comments, bug reports,... : Philippe Banwarth <bwt@users.sourceforge.net>.