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Katamino is a wooden puzzle game with over 500 challenges of progressive difficulty.

It helps children understand basic geometric concepts and spatial awareness. And for adults, the harder challenges are tricky brain teasers that are playable back-to-back.

Choose your challenge and take the corresponding pieces. To beat the puzzle, you must use the pieces to cover the entire grid without leaving any space visible or having any leftover pieces.

The game consists of 12 different pieces constructed of right angled blocks so each piece is made of 5 squares. (Think Tetris pieces, but 5 squares instead of 4.) An old version of the game had only 10 pieces; the completely straight 5 square and the 5 square “plus sign” were not included. Both versions also have a bunch of “filler” pieces of 1 or 2 squares. The game board is constructed with a movable divider so one can take sets of 4 up to the whole set of 12 pieces and form them into a 5 block by X rectangle. (Where X = the number of wood blocks in your set. The two or three player strategy game is accomplished on a square board divided into 64 smaller squares. Players take turns to place a piece on the game board. The first player who cannot place a piece anymore loses. (Similar to Blokus) The two player puzzle game mode is accomplished by dividing the board into two sections, each player chooses five blocks and are also given 4 small filler blocks of 1 and 2 squares. The first one to fit all their blocks perfectly into their half of the rectangle board, wins.

• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.32 x 5.08 x 30.48 cm; 694 g

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