KDRON Puzzle Travel K-Dron Game Chess Math Geometry
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This K-Dron 3-D Puzzle is afun, challenging portable game that offers multiple-challenge levels. K-Dron consists of eight eleven-sided pieces that when fitted correctly together form a block approximately 1/4" x 2" that is packed into a nifty plastic travel case.
Strategy! Fun! Challenge! Geometry?
This K-Dron 3-D Puzzle is afun, challenging portable game that offers multiple-challenge levels. K-Dron consists of eight eleven-sided pieces that when fitted correctly together form a block approximately 1/4" x 2" that is packed into a nifty plastic travel case (2.4"x2.5")
The object of the game is to design or reproduce various patterns (see photos). This versatile family friendly game has three levels of difficulty. With only 4 K-Drons of one color and 4 of another color, you can discover more than 38,000 possible combinations! It is like a modern tangram in three dimensions. For ages five and up. Instructions included.
Also includes playing instructions for K-Chess:The pieces can also be used as a mini chess set. K-Chess operates on the same rules as Chess, but with a novel twist. K-Drons serve as five different chess pieces in the board game, transforming themselves into new chessmen with every move and every taken K-Dron. From the lowly pawn to the sought after castle, K-Chess is a game of strategy, smarts and memory.
Some interesting information about the Kdron shape: In 1985 Polish artist and mathematician Janusz Kapusta discovered a new geometrical shape - an eleven faced polyhedron, which he called the K-dron.K-dron's name is derived from the letter "K",which represents the 11th letter of the alphabet, and "dron" from the greek word "hedron", which means surface. K-DRON is both a remarkably simple and complex structure. Its basic form has a square base, 11 multifaceted sides and a diamond-shaped face with a 45 degree angle of inclination. Viewed from above, it is a square within a square. The surface structure is both symmetrical and asymmetrical, concave and convex. K-dron possesses exceptional optical properties. Several K-DRONs placed next to each other create a dynamic number of possible patterns. Because of the opposite but complementary nature of its structure, two basic K-DRONs placed on top of each other form a cube. Its structure is intrinsically related to the symmetry of such common forms as the cube, pyramid, octahedron and dodecahedron.
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