'Flying birds' string - so many possibilities!

String of four 'flying birds' with variations of Tipple.

You must have drawn those little flying birds, the ones that are just a line with a dip in the middle.

Of course, you can make simple modifications:

You could draw a very deep dip or a shallow dip:

I've been having fun using this simple line a few times in different directions to create a string. I seem to prefer three 'birds' but of course you could do only two, or four, or even more.

Three birds string with Bunzo, Knase, Paradox, and Tripoli.

Here are six possible strings you might get using this flying bird idea.

Top right: only two 'birds'
Middle left: four 'birds' placed near the edges of the tile
Middle right: three 'birds' placed near the center of the tile
Lower right: three 'birds', the points of two vertical birds meeting near the center.

The above lines are all parallel to the paper edge, but it could be done diagonally too. Here's a tile with three 'birds' drawn diagonally, and beside it, red lines to show where the string lines are.

Three birds, diagonally, with Aquafleur, Crescent Moon, Knase, Sird, Well, and Zedbra

Here's another with red lines showing the strings. These bird strings all dip to touch the border.

Three birds string with Coaster, Paradox, Prestwood variation, Tripoli, and Unyun.

Three birds string with Going Down, Paradox, Umble

In the tile below, one bird's wing is the Beadlines while the other wing swoops off the right edge.

Three birds string with Beadlines, Black Pearlz,
Peanuckle, Tipple, and stripes

These flying birds offer a huge variety of strings to work with. I hope you have fun with it! If you use this method, please e-mail me a photo and I'll feature some readers' tiles in a future blog post. I'd love to see what you do!

A 'three flying birds' string, with two points meeting, can result in a heart shape! :)
Tangles: Beadlines, Crescent Moon, Hollibaugh, Jalousie, Munchin, Pearlz, Shattuck