FOAM CUBE PUZZLE DIMENSION DRAWINGS PRO
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Whatever one we decided upon would be the puzzle we would use for our project. We then carefully analyzed all three of our solutions and decided which one seemed the hardest puzzle to solve. The next step was to come up with three different solutions for a cube puzzle that did fit all of the requirements. The criteria did not matter at all at this point. Several computer applications exist to aid in the process of designing large structures and finding solutions for them automatically.We began the project just sketching as many ideas of puzzle pieces as we could. Two of the most popular complex structures are the 2×2×2 cube which is a perfect cube with each face made of 4 pieces (all in all, 24 pieces) and the Star structure, which is made of 6 cubes attached in a single-cube sized common centre (all in all, 30 pieces). With enough pieces, virtually any structure imaginable can be constructed. Some structures are more difficult to construct than others and the more pieces available, the easier it is to find a solution that makes a closed shape since there are more options of pieces to choose from.

With the presence of more than one puzzle available, pieces of several different cube puzzles can be joined together to make up larger and more complex structures other than the basic 6 faced cube. A subsequent challenge to this is to fit the pieces back into the 2-dimensional frame from which they came. The basic challenge of the Happy Cubes puzzles is to construct a single perfect cube from the 6 pieces of a single puzzle which share the same color scheme and texture. Using P for Pro, E for Expert, and the digits 1 (lower difficulty) to 6 (higher) their rankings are:

FOAM CUBE PUZZLE DIMENSION DRAWINGS PRO

The manufacturer's four easiest Pro puzzles are rated by the researchers as harder than the manufacturer's two hardest Pro puzzles and harder than any of the Expert puzzles. While the manufacturer lists the difficulty level of the sets (easiest to hardest) as Junior, Original, Pro, Expert, and within each set ranks the puzzles (easiest to hardest) as listed in the previous section, independent researchers have substantially disagreed with this arrangement saying the manufacturer's difficulty rankings within each set 'do not contain any relevant information on the difficulty of the model'. Named puzzles: Martin L King (blue), Omar Khayam (green), Marie Curie (yellow), Buckminster Fuller (red), Mahatma Gandhi (magenta), Albert Einstein (purple). Expert (formerly The Marble Cube) - Textures as colored marble, rated as hardest difficulty by the manufacturer (but see next section).Named puzzles: Confusius (sic) (Blue), Da Vinci (green), Marco Polo (yellow), Rubens (orange), Watt (red), Newton (magenta). There are two versions of this family, the first is colored with one dominant color and a black background and the newer version is much more lighter in shade, replacing the black background with a second dominant color similar in shade to the first one. Pro (formerly The Profi Cube) - Textured with two interleaving colors, rated by the manufacturer as slightly harder to build than the Happy Cubes (but see next section).These are the original cubes that were designed by the inventor in 1986. Original (formerly The Happy Cube) - Plainly colored with a single color each and with no texture, medium difficulty.These are the easiest cubes to build and are designed for children aged three to seven years. Junior (formerly The Little Genius) - Textured with various icons of foods, vehicles, emotions etc.'.The four families of Happy Cube puzzles with names of each puzzle are: Within each puzzle family the cubes are differentiated by color. Each family has a unique texture, style and difficulty level. There are four families of Happy Cube puzzles, each containing 6 different cubes.

FOAM CUBE PUZZLE DIMENSION DRAWINGS TRIAL

Usually, there is only one way to fit the pieces into a complete cube and it can be reached with various levels of difficulty by trial and error. The basic challenge is to construct a perfect, 6-sided cube out of these 6 pieces. Initially the puzzle is assembled into a 2-dimensional, flat 2x3 piece rectangle fitted into a frame.

The tiles were based upon a 5x5 matrix where the outer squares may be present or absent. The Happy Cubes were made of 8mm-thick ethylene-vinyl acetate foam mats (also known as EVA). Happy Cubes are also known by a number of other names, among them: 'Cube It!' cubes, 'Wirrel Warrel' (in the Netherlands), 'I.Q.ubes' and 'Cococrash' (in Spain and Portugal).

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The company 'Happy bvba' has the exclusive license to manufacture and sell these puzzles. Happy Cubes are a set of mechanical puzzles created in 1986 by the Belgian toy inventor Dirk Laureyssens.

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