In this Section, 42 puzzles / 6 pages: ![]() Fractured Fives Dazzle Triangule-8 Grand Snowflake Grand Multimatch I Quadrants Tri-Jazz Aquarius Hex-Pave Escape the Plague Links open in new window ![]() |
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MULTIMATCH® I ...edge-colored squares This is the set that started it allthe classic 3-color set of 24 all-different edge-colored tiles ("MacMahon's Three-Color Squares"), first proposed in 1921. See sample tile at right. Match them by color to create interesting symmetrical shapes. The harder challenge is to do it so the border is the same color all the way around. The 4x6 rectangle with uniform border has 13,328 solutions! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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MULTIMATCH® II ...corner-colored squares We've turned the divisions on the Multimatch I tiles from diagonal to vertical/horizontal to get this other set of 24 unique 3-color squares. Here the color-matching gets trickier because each edge has two segments to be matched up. Even so, the 5x5 with the central hole has 17281 solutions, as derived by researcher Toby Gottfried's computer programs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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MULTIMATCH® III ...edge-colored triangles This is the second of MacMahon's classic sets of color tiles first proposed in 1921. The 24 edge-colored triangles have all-different patterns with 4 colors. These, too, allow a series of color-matched designs with just one color around the outside edges, as discovered by Wade Philpott. Several games and new color patch designs are our more recent contribution. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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MULTIMATCH® IV ...corner-colored triangles This handsome relative of Multimatch III is twice as tricky, because two segments of color show on every edge. The illustrated manual contains many puzzle designs for color mixing and matching, and some competitive games. The 24 handfitted acrylic tiles, in bold, cool-pool or warm colors, represent all the combinations with four colors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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MARSHALL SQUARESTM
...25 edge-colored squares by William Rex Marshall
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