Balkan Puzzle
Sixteen half-square triangles: a square on point in the centre, framed by triangles, with two sets of geese chasing each other around the edges in a pinwheel.
Block Details
- Category
- Classic
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Grid Type
- four-patch
- Piece Count
- 32
- Tags
- four-patchhstflying-geeseintermediatetraditional
- Also appears in
- Four Patch
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