The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle invented by Piet Hein during a lecture on quantum mechanics conducted by Werner Heisenberg.

Mehta & Ward Alberg explains the soma cube and provides an applet for practice. Source codes included. [Java]

The Soma cube is not really a cube and it's also not (really) a drug. It's a puzzle like Tangram. You have to rearrange puzzle pieces to form other figures.

In no circumstances has it, succeeded so well as with the SOMA cube, The Danish Author Piet Hein conceived the idea of the SOMA cube in 1936,

Soma-solving program in QBASIC by Courtney McFarren.

The assembly of the seven pieces of the Soma Cube requires 27 small cubes. You will also need some carpenter's glue and a flat surface on which to work.

A cheap but difficult method is constructing them from a sheet of paper. You have to design the base of every Soma cube and fold it.

Gardner, M. "The Soma Cube." Ch. 6 in The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions: A New Selection.

The Soma Cube - one of the most outstanding puzzles of the 20th century. Seven different pieces - six made out of 4 cubes and one of 3 - can form a bigger

Back to Diagrammed Models Back to Puzzles. Soma Cube from strips. gif, ps, PDF, htm, txt, 612K, **, Soma Cube from strips, by Sebastian Kirsch

The Soma cube consists of seven pieces each constructed from unit cubes2. The shapes of these pieces are 'the seven simplest irregular combinations of

Additionally, the cube can be formed in 240 different ways. This puzzle is called the Soma Cube. The easiest way to make your own set is to purchase 27

The following task is included in these notes on the assumption that many schools would have a Soma Cube in their storeroom.

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The Soma cube was first brought to popular attention by Martin Gardner in his "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American in 1958.1 All 240 possible