Description
Hoffman Soma is a variantion to Haym Hisch' Inelegant Soma puzzle. It is a Soma-Cube puzzle based on the famous Hoffman's packing puzzle from 1978. This puzzle has 27 cubes of sizes axbxc. The object of that puzzle is to pack them into a cube with sides a+b+c. In 2004, Donald Knuth showed that actually 28 pieces fit, if you make them 3x4x5. That version, produced by George Miller in 2005, was called Perfect Packing. The Hoffman Soma takes Hoffman's original packing puzzle, and glues pieces together to make Soma pieces.
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Read more at the Non-Twisty Puzzles Forum.
Please order a 3D-printed do-it-yourself puzzle kit from iMaterialise at this page (check with Oskar about screws and stickers), or contact Oskar directly if you are interested in obtaining a fully colored, stickered and assembled sample of this puzzle.
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Oskar van Deventer
Oskar Puzzles offers mechanical puzzles and objects that can only exist thanks to 3D printing technologies. All designed by M.Oskar van Deventer.
