Not the seven-piece tangram
The classic tangram cuts a square into seven pieces you rotate and flip to reproduce a silhouette. Girafoufou’s keeps the idea — assemble shapes to make a picture — with simpler pieces: each shape already arrives the right way round, the same as its shadow carved into a wooden board. Sixteen pictures: eight with three pieces (the house, the fir tree, the boat, the ice cream, the flower, the fish, the mushroom and the balloon) and eight with four or five (the lorry, the snowman, the rocket, the castle, the engine, the cat, the butterfly and the robot).
Touch a shape, then its shadow — or drag it
The shape settles into place in colour. A child can also drag it with a finger: it floats at its real size, and letting go near the shadow is enough. On the wrong shadow, the shadow sways gently, a soft sound goes down, and Girafoufou says the shape goes somewhere else; it stays in hand. In the puzzle box everyone starts with the three-piece pictures; after six games the bigger pictures join in, and at the last level the shadow is in one piece, with no dotted lines to show where each piece ends.