“HEXAEDRE”
(HEXAHEDRON) is a new puzzle with which you may build many shapes. Nothing was left
to chance in the initial shape. Each piece of the 5x5x5 cube has been logically designed.
They are all rectangles (even the squares !), one unit thick, and the sides of
which are two to five units long. Thus we end up with ten pieces, as pictured page 2 of
the original problems booklet.
Because of this logical process, the pieces are all different and the family of pieces is
“ complete .” We can focus our attention on two types of
problems:
- “flat” (two-dimensional) shapes
- “volumetric” (three-dimensional) shapes.
The shapes you are challenged to build are drawn
on squared paper in order to show their size. Of course, these illustrations don’t
give away the actual solutions. For example, one of the possible solutions to problem #1
is the initial shape of the puzzle. The other shapes should be built outside the wooden
stand using all the pieces. The difficulty level is indicated for some more
difficult problems (see range of difficulty page 11). A solution to the problems marked
with an “S” is provided (see page 9). The other problems always have at least
one solution.
