PolyPuzzle Lab

  Introduction This is a beautiful  calendar puzzle  on hexagonal grid with two panels. Similar to the  square grid version , the left panel has months, and days of the week; and while the larger panel on the right displays the days of the month, as shown in the picture below.   Laser cut and assembled board at left, and ten pieces of polyhexes at right. This puzzle features ten polyhexes , as you can see in the image above. The two panels aren’t connected, so each polyhex piece can only fit in one of them. The goal of this puzzle is to show three hexagons representing the date (month, day of month and day of week), while covering all other hexagons (including the empty one next to 31) using the ten polyhexes. You can find the svg file for laser cutting/engraving machine at ATOMM  and  MakerWorld

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 ...