NUTTS
Puzzle

© Copyright Karl Scherer 1994-1999

What is NUTTS?
NUTTS is a solitaire game posing an unlimited number of new challenges.
Like Tangram, the set of 20 NUTTS tiles can be used to fill hundreds of diffferent given shapes.
But NUTTS is much more versatile than Tangram!

Each of the 100 shapes given in the accompanying leaflet is to be filled with all (!) 20 tiles!
Start with simple shapes like an oblong, trapezoid, triangle, and work yourself up to an expert NUTTER!
It is also great fun to invent your own shapes with it (think of Tangram).

The author discusses some interesting characteristics and aspects of NUTTS
in his book "NUTTS And Other Crackers".
(NOTE: When you buy the book, you get the NUTTS game for free!)

You can now buy this quality acrylic version of NUTTS and get nutts with it.

Difficulty Rating : Easy to hard depending on given shape.
                               NUTTS is therefore a puzzle for everyone!

Background and history:
NUTTS is not just another mindless collection of shapes.
The NUTTS tiles are a mathematically complete set in the following sense:
They consist of joined "half-squares", i.e. isosceles right triangles.
To be precise, they are the complete set of such unions, taking all possible combinations
of two, three or four such triangles. The only case omitted is the square (made of two such triangles).

NUTTS puzzle leaflet :  (description, 100 challenges, solutions) can be viewed page by page here:
   page 1 (description)
   page 2 (challenges)  page 3 (solutions)
   page 4 (challenges)  page 5 (solutions)
   page 6 (challenges)  page 7 (solutions)
   page 8 (challenges)  page 9 (solutions)

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