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Polyfoggia

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Play the game

Design a game

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Polyfoggia

Polyfoggia is a name for the computerized version of the 4,000-year-old Chinese tangram puzzle known as chi'i ch'iao tu or the Seven Piece Wisdom Board for Windows.  The classic tangram game has seven shapes  and by putting them together number of figures can be designed.


Shape

The game has seven pieces where two are big triangle, one medium triangle, two small triangle, one square, and one parallelogram.


Rules of the game
Rules

To play the game you should put together the seven pieces  and form another shape which is the given puzzle.


Move a Shape
Move Shapes

To move a shape do: .

1 - Position the mouse on the shape that you what to move

2 - Single left click the mouse and hold the button down

3- Now as you move the mouse the shape will move, reposition the shape

4- Release the left button


Rotate a Shape
Rotate Shapes

To rotate a shape counterclockwise direction  do:

1 - Position the mouse on the shape that you what to rotate

2 - Double  left click the mouse and hold the button down

3- Now as you move the mouse the shape will rotate according to move speed

4- Release the left button, rotation ends

The shape rotates over the point where the mouse was clicked. Rotation speed is correlated with the mouse movement on x coordinate, vertical move of the mouse will not accelerate the shape rotation.


Flip a  Shape
Flip  Shapes

To flip  a shape do: :

1 - Position the mouse in the shape very very close to the line which will be axis for flip

2 - Single left click the mouse

The shape flips over the line close to the mouse click


Play a game
Play

To play the game simply initiate the program and you will get to the playing mode. you will be given a shape as the puzzle and the pieces to solve the puzzle.


Design a game

To design a puzzle you should have the design version of Polyfoggia.


Exit

To exit Polyfoggia do the following

1 - Select  game

2 - Select  exit