Eight Hands Around
A small sawtooth star in the centre, ringed by background geese with dark wings and dark corner triangles, on an eight-by-eight grid.
Block Details
- Category
- Classic
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Grid Type
- four-patch
- Piece Count
- 37
- Tags
- four-patchflying-geesehstintermediatetraditional
- Also appears in
- Four Patch
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