PolyPuzzle Lab

Introduction The goal of this puzzle is to pack all eight identical tetrahex (4 hexagon cells) "P" pieces into a heart-shaped frame. Inside the heart frame, there is a small heart island and all the tetrahex P pieces must fill around it. This puzzle is a combination of loose-packing puzzle and replication puzzle . Each tetrahex P has two sides: Each tetrahex P piece has two side, P side at left, and Q side at right darkened by engraving All eight tetrahex pieces have dark engraving on their Q sides, while their P side remain original wood color. The laser cut and assembled ready-to-play puzzle is shown below (showing 4 piece in P side and 4 pieces in Q side). Please note the assembly requires gluing of the heart frame and also the small heart island onto the base board at specified location. The assembled board has a cutout region at lower right corner for storing one P piece only for storage purpose, if you do not want to store it at solution stage. As you can see in above ...

Introduction Isn’t a heart-shaped puzzle just the best? The challenge is to fit six different pentomino pieces into the frame. With the heart’s smooth curve and the pentomino pieces’ straight edges, you might think there’ll be some gaps. And you’re right—this is a loose-packing puzzle . The fun part is figuring out how to position the pentomino pieces relative to the frame. Can you discover the perfect combination of packing and orientation to solve it? The great thing is, you can flip and rotate all six pentomino pieces as you work! Laser cut, with heart-shaped frame glued onto base board, with six pentominoes on the side SVG file available at ATOMM  and MakerWorld

Laser cut and assembled, ready-to-play Introduction This puzzle is a fun  loose-packing  challenge that pays tribute to the classic 4-piece  Marten's Menace puzzle. It features three pentomino pieces - F, W and Z- and the goal is to fit them into the frames on the board.  There are two frames in total, so you’ll have two puzzles to solve: one rectangular and one oval-shaped. Can you discover the best way to pack and position them all inside the frames? SVG file is available at ATOMM  and MakerWorld .

  Laser cut Eight Hex P Challenge puzzle. It shows the piece outside isn't quite fitting and puzzle cannot be solved without re-arrangement of the pieces. Introduction Instead of polyomino and square grid used in the first replication puzzle , here we switch to polyhex and hexagonal grid. The basic building block is P-tetrahex, which looks like a letter P (and also like a pistol): P-side of a P-tetrahex and let's call it's reflection Q-side Q-side of a P-tetrahex This puzzle requires the filling of eight P-tetrahex into a frame as you can see in the picture above. The challenge is that only one side of each P-tetrahex can be used in this puzzle: 6 P sides 2 Q sides The required sides have dot markings (the other sides are blank) in my laser cut file, and they must face up when you’re trying to solve the puzzle.  The picture below shows the frame and eight P-tetrahex pieces with dot marking sides facing up.  This puzzle has exactly one solution. Puzzle frame at left, and ...

Laser cut Eight L Challenge puzzle. It shows the piece outside isn't quite fitting and puzzle cannot be solved without re-arrangement of the pieces. Introduction I’m excited to share my first replication puzzle ! It features eight L-tetrominoes arranged in a 6x6 square frame with a unique 2x2 notch at one corner, as you can see in the picture above. The challenge is that only one side of each L-tetrominoes can be used in this puzzle: 5 L sides 3 J sides The required sides have dot markings (the other sides are blank) in my laser cut file, and they must face up when you’re trying to solve the puzzle.  The picture below shows the frame and eight L-tetrominoes with dot marking sides facing up. This puzzle has exactly one solution. Though it is not as challenging as Nob's L puzzle with twelve L-tetrominoes, it is not an easy one either. Puzzle frame at left, and eight L-tetrominoes at right, dot markings on 5 L sides and 3 J sides. Laser cutting/engraving files are available at ATO...

  Cut and assembled puzzle, ready-to-play setup Introduction You can find the laser-cut/engrave SVG file of this puzzle at  ATOMM  and MakerWorld This 3-in-1 Squeeze-Me-In puzzle comes with a triangular board, three small pieces (one triangle, one parallelogram, and one square), and nine large pieces. As you can see in the picture above, the three small pieces are tucked into the three small empty cutouts, just like they look. The nine large pieces are arranged to fit snugly into the square board. The picture below shows how the puzzle looks before all the pieces are on the boards. There’s a little figure in the lower right corner of the square board that shows you how to put nine large pieces back into the ready-to-play setup. The challenge here is to fit one of the tiny pieces into the big square board, along with the nine bigger pieces, without any of them overlapping. You’ll probably have to shuffle, turn, and flip all ten pieces to get it right. This puzzle is a tri...

Cut and assembled puzzle, ready-to-play setup Introduction You can find the laser-cut/engrave SVG file of this puzzle at ATOMM  and MakerWorld This 4-in-1 Squeeze-Me-In puzzle comes with a parallelogram board, three small pieces, and nine large pieces. As you can see in the picture above, the four small pieces are tucked into the four small empty cutouts, just like they look. The nine large pieces are arranged to fit snugly into the parallelogram board. The picture below shows how the puzzle looks before all the pieces are on the boards. There’s a little figure in the lower right corner of the square board that shows you how to put the nine large pieces back into the ready-to-play setup. The challenge here is to fit one of the small pieces into the big parallelogram board, along with the nine bigger pieces, without any of them overlapping. You’ll have to shuffle, turn, and flip all ten pieces to get it right. This puzzle is 4-in-1 because it has four small pieces, and each one is ...