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Puzzles by Maker > Tantrix
The inventor of Tantrix Mike McManaway grew up in New Zealand and studied geology at Canterbury University. As a student he became addicted to Backgammon, competing in international tournaments and winning the New Zealand Backgammon title in 1986. He worked briefly for IBM's marketing division before opening a small chain of specialist game and puzzle shops called "Mind Games". Tantrix originated as a two-player cardboard game, invented and manufactured in South America while Mike recovered from a climbing fall.
In 1988 the first version of Tantrix was made and called the "Mind Game", named after the inventor's game shop. It used 56 cardboard pieces with a yellow background and lines of only two colours - red and black. The strange hexagonal playing board folded three ways into a diamond shape, which determined the shape of the box. A couple of thousand sets were silk screened in Chile and shipped back to New Zealand to test out sales in the inventor's shop.
The set sold well enough to publish a second edition in the following year. This time an offset printing process was used, along with a number of minor improvements. Having his own game shops, Mike was able to "test the market" and get immediate feedback from customers to establish whether design changes were indeed improvements. An experiment with the first plastic version of the Mind Game followed a year later. The evolution towards Tantrix had begun.
In 1991 the first Tantrix Puzzle was called Crazy Tantrix Original. It used 10 tiles with 3 different line colours, any of which could be made into a loop. The Original took most people between 15 to 45 minutes to solve. Before the Discovery was invented, Tantrix Original was the easiest way to learn and build the spatial skills needed to play Tantrix.
And the rest is history.... Read more about Tantrix at http://www.tantrix.com/index.html or play online at http://www.tantrix.com/english/TantrixGameLogon.html
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Tantrix Match - Starter Pack
This addictive new concept combines the visual appeal of the award-winning Tantrix game and the deductive logic of puzzle solving.
Using the pre-placed tile clues on each of the 12 puzzle cards, your mission is to fit the remaining tiles and ensure that all colours match!
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Tantrix Match - Add-On Pack 1
Looking for more challenges for Tantrix Match?
Add-On Pack contains 12 more challenges, each becomes progressively more challenging than the last.
The Add-On Pack requires the 13 tiles and the tray of Tantrix Match click here.
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Tantrix Match - Add-On Pack 2
Looking for more challenges for Tantrix Match?
Add-On Pack contains 12 more challenges, each becomes progressively more challenging than the last.
The Add-On Pack requires the 13 tiles and the tray of Tantrix Match click here.
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Tantrix Match - Starter Pack Plus Add-On Packs 1 & 2
This addictive new concept combines the visual appeal of the award-winning Tantrix game and the deductive logic of puzzle solving.
Using the pre-placed tile clues on each of the 12 puzzle cards, your mission is to fit the remaining tiles and ensure that all colours match!
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Tantrix Match - Add-On Packs 1 & 2
Looking for more challenges for Tantrix Match?
Each Add-On Pack contains 12 more challenges, each becomes progressively more challenging than the last.
The Add-On Pack requires the 13 tiles and the tray of Tantrix Match click here.
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Tantrix Discovery
Tantrix Discovery tiles are numbered on the back 1 to 10. Take tiles in order and try to make the coloured loops. With ten tiles all 3 colors have solutions but they are very hard to find.
Infinite Discovery: Join two sets of Discovery together to make even bigger loops. This concept extends infinitely; join as many sets together as you like; the loops get bigger and the puzzles get harder!
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Tantrix Xtreme
Tantrix Xtreme is a more fiendish (and extreme) version of Tantrix Discovery. It contains 8 loop puzzles with an extra twist: no colour clue is given for each level. Plus 2 new tricky pyramid puzzles!
Your aim is to build loops of various shapes and sizes, starting with just 3 tiles. Each new tile added gives you a different and more challenging puzzle. Race yourself against the challenge times given on the pack.
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