What Do You Know About The Soma Cube?
10 Questions
| Total Attempts: 174
Invented by Danish polymath Peit Hein in 1936, the soma cube is a puzzle consisting of mechanically interlinked pieces. The pieces are a combination of four unit cubes to form an inside corner. Take this quiz to test the depth of your knowledge about this puzzle.
Questions and Answers
- 1.
How many pieces make up the soma cube puzzle?- A.
5
- B.
7
- C.
3
- D.
8
- 2.
What is a solid figure formed by joining one or more equal cubes face to face?
- A.
Cuboid
- B.
Tetraset
- C.
Polycube
- D.
Sphere
- 3.
What is the foundation of the soma cube puzzle?
- A.
Imagery
- B.
Parallelism
- C.
Chirality
- D.
Isomerism
- 4.
A polygon in the plane made of five equal-sized squares connected edge-to-edge is a?
- A.
Pentroxis
- B.
Pentraxete
- C.
Pentomino
- D.
Pentagon
- 5.
What kind of tiling uses a small set of tile shapes that cannot form a repeating pattern?
- A.
Geometric
- B.
Dimensional
- C.
Aperiodic
- D.
Periodic
- 6.
How many pentacubes make up the Bedlam cube?
- A.
12
- B.
10
- C.
9
- D.
7
- 7.
How many dicubes and hexacubes are found in a diabolical cube?
- A.
2,1
- B.
1,1
- C.
2,2
- D.
1,2
- 8.
How many permutations of solutions to the soma cube puzzle exists?
- A.
250
- B.
200
- C.
240
- D.
300
- 9.
The world record for the fastest time to solve a soma cube is?
- A.
3.52 seconds
- B.
2.93 seconds
- C.
1.22 seconds
- D.
2 minutes
- 10.
When was the eight queens puzzle published?
- A.
1842
- B.
1840
- C.
1848
- D.
1845
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