Soma Cube
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  • Designer:
Piet Hein
  • Material:
Pine and Plywood
The soma cube was invented in 1936 by the Danish poet and puzzle inventor, Piet Hein. The name "Soma" is derived from the drug in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. A drug that transported the user into a dreamlike state.

The seven pieces represent all of the ways in which three or four cubes can be arranged, except in a straight line. The Some Cube is one of the simplest and most elegant of all three-dimensional put-together puzzles.

In addition to making the pieces into a cube, several other shapes can be made from the pieces. A newsletter called the Soma Addict was published due to the popularity of the Soma Cube.

  • Pieces

7 plus box.

  • Solutions

240 

  • Other Problems
 
CGN, 2001, 2002

e-Mail: ea1ii@airtel.net

Last modified: 2002-09-16