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  • Designer:
William Strijbos
  • Material:
Aluminium and metacrilate

  The objetive is to pack fifteen 2x2x1 (60 uc) bricks into a 4x4x4 cube (64 uc) in such a way that none of them can slide in any direction.

This puzzle was the second place winner at the 1994 Hikimi Puzzle Competition in Japan.

  • Pieces

15 plus box. The are solutions also with only 14, 13, or 12 pieces.

  • Solutions

Bill Cutler analized the puzzle and this are the results:

Pieces Vacancy All
Solutions
Anti-Slide
Solutions
15 4 30.144 21
14 8 379.372 72
13 12 2.542.490 1
12 16 9.911.900 3

This puzzle is very difficult.

CGN, 2001, 2002

e-Mail: ea1ii@airtel.net

Last modified: 2002-09-16