How To Trizm™
The Official Guide to Trizm™ Puzzles.
What is a Trizm™?
A Trizm™ Puzzle is a number/symbol placing logic puzzle from The Trizm Puzzle Company, LLC. It is similar to the popular Sudoku puzzles, but uses triangles and vivid colors instead of black and white boxes. Trizm™ Puzzles have similar rules to Sudoku, but since there are no rows and columns it is more challenging, making you think “outside the box”.
TrizmSpeak™ (Terminology)
Small Triangle – the smallest triangle in the puzzle, the place you enter a value.
Sides - the small triangles that form the left, right and base of the puzzle – the sides look like teeth, and always have a long edge on the outside of the puzzle.
Inner Triangle - a group of small triangles that each contain a unique value.
Crossbar - unlike the sides, the colored crossbars are alternating rightside-up, upside-down small triangles that always start on a side.
Trizm Size – the number of small triangles that make up each inner triangle, side, and crossbar. Trizm’s can be any size that is a perfect square, such as 4, 9, 16, 25, etc.
Trizm Type – the trizm size plus the number of crossbars, denoted with an X. For example a 9X3 is a trizm size nine with three crossbars.
Solving The Puzzle
Like Sudoku, a Trizm™ Puzzle fills in some of the blanks for you and you must solve for the rest. A Trizm™ Puzzle will have only ONE solution.
Trizm™ 4 with 2 Crossbars
Fill in the blank small triangles with a 1 - 4 . Each number can appear only once in each side, inner triangle, and colored crossbar.
Trizm™ 9 with 3 Crossbars
Fill in the blank small triangles with a 1 - 9. Each number can appear only once in each side, inner triangle, and colored crossbar.
Trizm™ 9 with 7 Crossbars
Fill in the blank small triangles with a 1 - 9. Each number can appear only once in each side, inner triangle, and colored crossbar.
Trizm™ 9 with 9 Crossbars
Fill in the blank small triangles with a 1 - 9. Each number can appear only once in each side, inner triangle, and colored crossbar.
Crossbars and Colors
The Trizm color scheme not only looks good, but it should help you keep track of what crossbars the small triangles participate in while trying to solve the puzzle.
The Yellow crossbars always extend from one side of the triangle to the other.
Red and Blue crossbars start on a side of the triangle, but do not make it all the way across to the other side. Red and Blue crossbars overlap each other in the middle of the puzzle.
Purple - The intersection of the Red and Blue Crossbars is represented by the color Purple , and any triangle that is part of both a Red and Blue Crossbar is Purple .
Orange - The intersection of the Red and Yellow Crossbars is represented by the color Orange, and any triangle that is part of both a Red and Yellow Crossbar is Orange.
Green - The intersection of the Blue and Yellow Crossbars is represented by the color Green, and any triangle that is part of both a Blue and Yellow Crossbar is Green.
Brown - The intersection of the Red , Blue and Yellow Crossbars is represented by the color Brown, and any triangle that is part of a Red , Blue and Yellow Crossbar is Brown.