Puzzle Cube Project
Puzzle Design Challenge Brief
Client: Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
Problem Statement: A local office furniture manufacturing
company throws
away tens of thousands of scrap ¾” hardwood cubes that result from its furniture
construction processes. The material is expensive, and the scrap represents a
sizeable loss of profit.
Design Statement: Fine Office Furniture, Inc. would like to return value to its
waste product by using it as the raw material for desktop novelty items that
will be sold on the showroom floor. Design, build, test, document, and present a
three-dimensional puzzle system that is made from the scrap hardwood cubes. The
puzzle system must provide an appropriate degree of challenge to a person who is
three years of age or older.
Criteria:
1. The puzzle must be fabricated from 27 –
¾”hardwood cubes.
2. The puzzle system must contain exactly five puzzle
pieces.
3. Each individual puzzle piece must consist of at least four,
but no more than six hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to each
other.
4. No two puzzle pieces can be the same.
5. The five puzzle
pieces must assemble to form a 2 ¼” cube.
6. Some puzzle parts should
interlock.
Puzzle Cube Research
Brainstorm 3, 4, 5, & 6 puzzle cube combinations
Puzzle cube solutions (hard and easy)
Created three different Puzzle Cube designs from possible
puzzle cube combinations. The design brief requires that each
puzzle piece contain at least four and no more than six hardwood cubes. Each
design will show how the five color parts fit
together in a isometric view.
puzzle cube combinations. The design brief requires that each
puzzle piece contain at least four and no more than six hardwood cubes. Each
design will show how the five color parts fit
together in a isometric view.