SOMA CUBE puzzle solution

[qooqiemonszhter78]

oooh tanks



[MusiicLyriic]

Cute. This is the biggest Soma Cube I've ever seen in my live. xD

[Dee5831]

Have you seen the 4x4x4 version? The cubes don't need to be in any particular order so long as they make a cube. watch?v=b-zgZpPieGA

[ilsennodipoi]

The "mistake" is trivial. A correct solution could actually have all the pieces occupying the same spaces as they do in the clip, only pieces 4-6 need to be rotated a bit. Note that they will still occupy the exact same positions. E.g. piece four can to be rotated 180 degrees around one axis and 90 around another perpendicular one.

[jg26phi]

fucking waste man

[BluePi1313]

(comment to the desc) It's not in the checker pattern.

[halo2party]

Is it the colors?

[PKarklouse]

i am currently thinking the tetris music

[pablo1p]

yeah there is a mistake

[hyperkid0girl]

thank u so much u just did my technology project ^_^...i feel guilty tho

[Fanimeanniedubs]

THANKS!! ^_^

[DeepRedSeaMina]

thanks you jjust finished my math problem :D

[elijahdunlapmuhammad]

elijah smells like hot do do and he likes to sniff little boy booety hole

[tonyroolz1]

and do u know how to solve hte altar??? i got all the other ones

[tonyroolz1]

wat was the mistake

[laurentsauer]

A mistake seems to be at position #4. See how the dark and light cubes are in the wrong places?

[jwm239]

...ah...get two or more complete sets and

really build some artful edifices...!

[SHANGAIKIDKALEN3000]

your dumb you did it wrong you poop whats the point of saying its the solution but its wrong

[laurentsauer]

I told you there was a mistake! Did you read what I wrote? "This is the solution to the notorious 3x3x3 Soma Cube puzzle. Well, there's one mistake...Can you see it? "

Read again and again. Mistakes are often more useful than solutions! Thank you for your mistake :-)

[dylanj16]

hehe

[100yungD100]

lol u pwned him xD

[entoris476]

lol u did it wrong

thts not the solution

look at the pattern

its suppose to be a 5 symbol(of the dots)

[MiloCow]

There are 240 ways to solve this

[entoris476]

but only 1 right way

[caelumaestas]

If the blocks were all stained one color, it wouldn't make any difference. There are 240 "right" ways to solve this puzzle.

[beatledude64]

they have that thing in my dentist office

[laurentsauer]

Great. Keep the patient's mind busy with little cubes while you pull the tooth out.

[randomlegends]

lol

[N0rThLakErs101]

WHOA!!!this is our activity today in our Math subject here in AU,,,at first its hard but very addictive....you can build a lot from it

[rpywcpsch]

I tried that when I was eight

[Barryms0083]

Yours are super big!

[HungryforNotes]

The black and white cubes aren't checkered, they're just all over the place. Cool solution though, and nice SOMA set.

[laurentsauer]

Yes, I know the cubes begin in checkered form, and then they go off track. So it's easy to correct. When I have time, I'll shoot another version :-)

[HungryforNotes]

You can make a soma cube out of LEGO pieces. It's really fun to play with.

[lazerlock89]

theres only supposed to be 5 sections

[laurentsauer]

Wikipedia: "The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle invented by Piet Hein during a lecture on quantum mechanics conducted by Werner Heisenberg. Seven pieces made out of unit cubes must be assembled into a 3x3x3 cube."

[xxxxmanuftwxxxx]

dude

[accrawford599]

where did you get that

[laurentsauer]

I bought this soma cube 15 years ago in Paris. I don't think they make them anymore in wood like that. At least I haven't seen any. If you have a minimal knowledge of carpentry, you could make one.

[accrawford599]

uh.... i dont think so im not that smart

[rpywcpsch]

cool don't you think?

[manerap34]

i nerver knew there was some kind of cube like that ever in the world someone can solve it.How can u get those things and how much r they. When i heard of a soma cube i though it was gonna be like a rubiks cube but it's actually broken apart.

cool video and solution

[mitchconn]

Actually they're still made. Look for the game "Block by Block" by ThinkFun. That's

a Soma Cube. If you live in the USA, you

should be able to get it at Barnes & Noble.

It's a great puzzle!

[gamemeister27]

i had something like this was back in 2nd and 3rd grade, you had to make a cube by placing yellow plastic pieces in a clear plastic box with no top.

[pearcey77]

thanks for that

[laurentsauer]

Great! Make sure you tell me when you are done. Shoot 240 videos, make them short: about 10" a piece. So that's a total of 40 minutes of video. No problem. Piece of cake. I'll watch them all, just to make sure you don't cheat :-)

[TheRammer314]

Should the solution be a checkered cube?

Nice set, btw. Did you make it yourself?

[laurentsauer]

Yes, the solution should be a perfectly checkered cube. It is quite easy to see where I went wrong. And easy to find the correct solution. No, I didn't make the set. I bought it ages ago. They are hard to find actually, at least in simple, elegant wood.

[AmorDeDonPerlimplin]

"THE" correct solution. There are actually 240 correct solutions.

[laurentsauer]

Thanks for the precise info. That would be something nice to do. Shoot all the 240 solutions. Exhaust all the possibilities. It would be exhausting too :-)

[AmorDeDonPerlimplin]

Actually I'm planning to do something like that. The things is that it either won't fit a 10 min youtube video OR the thing is beyond capacity of youtube visitors. Just imagine watching 240 different ways of the same thing. I would give up wathcing the video after the first let's say 20-25 combinations. C'est la vie-deo:)

Anyway a video I made yesterday already shows 2 combinations, I think I need to paint my cube different colours so that viewers get something out of it.

[pearcey77]

thats true