Drawing / Paper / Sketch
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For educational purposes, I believe that at some point we all need a paper medium to be able to express the geometry of a possible solution with all the details that can be created with a sketch in hand … and not with the board.
Also, when you are in transport, it is impossible to play on the set, but you still have ideas coming up 
And for very complex solutions, I think that’s the only way to figure it out, much faster than the board.
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So here is my idea of a paper base. You can print it and draw on it.
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Enjoy - Thomas
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@Tom.FR Thank you for making this! We have had people ask for a paper version, especially educators. Would you be willing to draw out a puzzle so that I can see how each symbol relates to each part?
What is the use of drawing on paper and how can I use it?
The drawing on paper is a complement to the board, the two are used in parallel and in complementarity.
Paper has the following advantages:
- Great speed of action - you draw faster than you place the pieces on the board;
- A parallel view of several options - you have several papers while you only have one board ;
- Possible archiving of your thinking and the steps you took to get there;
- Greater fluidity in expressing intentions and concepts - you can outline needs for “registers”, their size, their arrangement, without knowing at the time how to place them, but first of all defining your need;
- Good efficiency in distorting registers, by drawing quickly, in order to try to fit them all into the picture - which is one of the major challenges of complex solutions;
- Better portability - allowing you to continue your thinking when you leave your board, on public transport for example.
- Easier counting of the outputs of your registers - you can name the marbles by their number and write on the paper where they come out and in what order - but you cannot write on the board;
In summary, we would say that the paper brings a synthesized and immediate vision of a complex solution where the vision of the board only brings a perception in time of the sequence.
