7-Piece Block Puzzle

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Published on August 4, 2009
This thing was Featured on August 5, 2009

Description

A 7-Piece Block Puzzle. Goal = manipulate all 7 pieces into a 3x3x3 cube!

Instructions

Printing Instructions:
-Print (1): L Piece, Small L Piece, T Piece, Weird Piece 2, ZigZag
-Print (2): Weird Piece 1

Recommended Skeinforge Settings:
-Use a raft!
-Fill: Solid Surface Thickness = 2 layers, Infill Solidity (Ratio) = .4

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I am curious, could a version of this be made with only one solution? And if so could someone tell me which pieces it would require?

Thanks. :)

Christmas is coming :-D

the ThinkFun company makes a larger version with a lot more shapes to make

323 different assemblies versus Soma's 240

I made one, but I can't click any 'I made one' button... Is this due to the license?

Ok, I changed it to Attribution - Creative Commons. Try now!

The license shouldn't be a problem...there isn't one!

Interesting. This is *almost* a "Soma cube," which is a classic 3x3 cube dissection puzzle. Based on the photo, however, the two chiral pieces appear to have the same handedness, whereas in a true Soma cube they have opposite handedness. Is it really possible to assemble a 3x3 cube when both of these are the same piece?

Believe it or not, it is still possible to solve it with two of the same "chiral" pieces! I was originally planning on re-creating a Soma Cube puzzle by making them mirror images of each other, but had some weird software problems, and decided to stick with what I had...two of the same piece! I was really surprised to find that it's still solvable :)

Challenge me. I had that puzzle done on NJTransit train with my eyes closed. Step up! Something challenging please!

Some more awesome puzzles are in the works, not to worry!

haha, I used to have these as a kid. Now I can relive that by printing them. Thanks!

Cool! more puzzles !

for more puzzles see :

johnrausch.com/PuzzlingWorld/d...

awesome. can't wait to try to put it together sometime.