Impressions
The Real Value
This game intends to create clarity of thought & focus. Instead of mindless entertainment, we wish for mindful entertainment. Our preference for anyone playing is to discover the game, and their ingeniousness solving the puzzles. Sometimes discovering may need a bit more time.
The real value in all this : The joy of applying your intelligence instead of mindless tapping on the screen. The joy of understanding and achieving something. Not even necessarily proving yourself against someone else, but proving yourself to you. There is a value, that cannot be paid or bought !
You can still simply buy the game for really almost a penny or the price of a coffee !
We think this game is truly great, and we believe that we're selling it for much less than it can be worth to you.
We believe that your gain from solving these puzzles by far outshines the money spent, and it's never paid in money anyways.
It's value comes from effort and time and thinking.
It is a value YOU create, and we thank you for it !
Enjoy creating :)
Trinagon puzzles are built from symmetry. The key is to understand which symmetry is actually at work.
Take the TStar. Remove the spike rotators. The remaining rotators are hexagonal.
Eg. 6 triangles around each rotator & a 2-fold overlaps between each rotator. Exactly like a hexagon playground.
So it's reasonable to assume we deal with a hexagonal puzzle.
Locally around each rotator this is correct. As long as you only use two rotators it still is.
Globally it is not : The spikes fold the hexagon in half.
A triangle has to move around a spike twice to come to the same state (face & direction), as moving once around the hex-rotators.
This holds true regardless of which rotators are in play.
It's one of those things that are (maybe only) obvious once they are known.
And this opens the door for some very tricky puzzles.
The foundation of the trinagon system is symmetry.
Symmetry is too big a word to explore here.
It is found in nature, in mathematics, in 'chaos' and what we perceive as 'order', to name a few.
it is a principle that can give us insights into complex mechanics or processes, be they of the real (material, physical) or virtual (philosophical, social, mathematical ..) kind, without having to understand the exact workings of these.
And really just like that, we can enjoy symmetry. We can derive hypercomplex theories about them, or we can just ..
.. PLAY !
This is the game to give you that opportunity !
Trinagon is a permutation puzzle system.
Not just one puzzle, but many many puzzles that can be played on multiple playgrounds with miriad configurations / layouts / designs / patterns.
Symmetry has many many expressions :) Here you see another one.
Now, as of december 2019. with all the polyhedra in the game, and many clearly not so easy puzzles, finding the symetries is increasingly difficult.
Therefore, many of these puzzles have been designed using rogue play !
Once you find the perfect symetry, or partial symetries you will be able to solve them with a fraction of the original moves !