Gamepuzzles is Kadon's registered trademark name for its product line of original tiling sets and strategy games. The sets are uniquely designed to include both solo solving (puzzles) and interactive, competitive play (games).
Kadon's specialty is the creation and development of geometric mosaic sets where a set, moreover, contains all the different combinations of a certain theme. The simplest such set is familiar to most people dominoes.
Kadon does it with permutations of shapes and colors. With such sets you can create visually striking graphic images, evoking the look of an M. C. Escher or Vasarely painting. This is where math meets art in a highly playable form.
The two major types of Kadon's combinatorial sets are color-matching tiles and polyforms, where all the different shapes of a certain type are included. The challenge is to match the tiles by color or to fit the shapes together into larger, very beautiful patterns. A tour through Kadon's catalog will show you the amazing variety of such sets that nature's geometry provides.
Kadon gamepuzzles are used in many schools and by many home-schooling families. The "joy of thinking" makes learning more fun. And being creative and feeling one's mind working well is also good for building self-esteem.
Kadon also makes boardgames with unusual visual designs and intriguing methods of play. Many of the boards have strikingly beautiful artistic symmetries, like kaleidoscopes. We call them our Kaleido-MatrixTM boards. They can double as art objects on the wall.
Generally avoided are games whose objective is merely the direct annihilation of the opponent's pieces. Our search is for non-predatory themes that let players feel good about playing even if they don't win every time.
It is our belief that games are microcosms of the world at large, of striving for results. At this point in history, where the greatest human collaboration is needed to achieve triumphs like landing on the moon and creating a World Wide Web, the games that enshrine war-like themes have outlived their usefulness.
Conflict resolution through means other than mutual destruction is what games should be about.
We want our games to be enjoyed by all ages, from kids to the most avid game lover and strategist. There's something here for all of them.
Games of chance are kept to a minimum to give you the maximum freedom of choice of action. Where chance is part of the game, it is as an adjunct to your strategy, not the controlling factor.
Puzzles on a grid
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