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  • Designer:
Abbie Coffin
  • Material:
Walnut pieces in a plywood try

  I made this puzzle specially for my kid aged 5 ata that time. It is not very difficult but the 9 problems I know can make a child spend a nice hour.

  • Pieces

The pieces are 6 planar tetracubes plus a single cube, two of the tetracubes duplicated.

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  • Problems (and Solutions)
    • Fit the all the pieces into a 5x5x1 tray: 49 solutions distributed as shown
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    26 solutions
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    No  solutions
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    3 solutions
    abbie4.gif (6470 bytes)
    19 solutions
    abbie5.gif (7004 bytes)
    No solutions
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    1 solution
    • Fit the tetracubes only into a 4x6 rectangle: 9 solutions
    • Fit the tetracubes only into a 3x8 rectangle: 6 solutions
    • Pack the tetracubes only into a 4x3x2 paralelepid: 7 solutions 
 
CGN, 2001, 2002

e-Mail: ea1ii@airtel.net

Last modified: 2002-09-16