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Victoria Adams is a 9th grader at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School who was tasked with designing a puzzle for Fine Office Furniture made from 27 3⁄4" hardwood cubes. The puzzle must have 5 unique parts that each contain 4-6 cubes and assemble into a 2 1⁄4" cube. Victoria designed a puzzle with three 6-cube parts, one 5-cube part, and one 4-cube part that met the criteria. When tested on her sister and mother, they were able to solve the puzzle with hints but found it provided an appropriate challenge. Victoria would improve the straightness of gluing and differentiate the pieces more clearly for any future designs.

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Victoria Adams is a 9th grader at Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School who was tasked with designing a puzzle for Fine Office Furniture made from 27 3⁄4" hardwood cubes. The puzzle must have 5 unique parts that each contain 4-6 cubes and assemble into a 2 1⁄4" cube. Victoria designed a puzzle with three 6-cube parts, one 5-cube part, and one 4-cube part that met the criteria. When tested on her sister and mother, they were able to solve the puzzle with hints but found it provided an appropriate challenge. Victoria would improve the straightness of gluing and differentiate the pieces more clearly for any future designs.

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Puzzle Cube Design Challenge

Victoria Adams
IED 2nd Period

Autobiography

My name is Victoria Adams. I am a


9th grader at Southeast Raleigh Magnet
High School. I was born on December
27, 1999 in Raleigh, North Carolina. I
have 3 sisters: Kayla (16), Rachael (9),
and Bethany (9).

Puzzle Design Challenge Brief


Client

Fine Office Furniture, Inc.

Target Consumer

Ages: High school aged

Designer

_____________________________________

Problem Statement
A local office furniture manufacturing company throws away tens of thousands of
scrap 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 high school students.

Criteria
1. The puzzle must be fabricated from 27 hardwood cubes.
1. The puzzle system must contain exactly five puzzle parts.
2. Each individual puzzle part must consist of at least four, but no more than six
hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to each other.
3. No two puzzle parts can be the same.
4. The five puzzle parts must assemble to form a 2 cube.
5. Some puzzle parts should interlock.
6. The puzzle should require high school students an average of ______
minutes/seconds to solve. (Fill in your target solution time.)
7. The puzzle should require high school students an average of ______
minutes/seconds to solve. (Fill in your target solution time.)

Final Cube Assembly

1st Cube Evidence

Multi-view Sketch

2nd Cube Evidence

Top, Middle, and Bottom Cube Views

Cube Combinations

CAD Multi-view Drawings

Puzzle Test Results


At first, when conducting my puzzle cube pieces I had a very hard time
trying to get all five pieces to fit together and fit the requirements. Even though I
took so long trying to figure out my pieces, I finally got them done. My pieces do
meet the design criteria. I have three pieces that contain six cubes each. I have
one piece that contains five cubes and another piece that contains four cubes.
They meet the requirements because I have five pieces total and they all contain
no less than four cubes and no higher than six cubes. I think my design definitely
provides the appropriate degree of challenge to high school students. My sister,
who is a junior at SRMHS, attempted my puzzle cube and failed. I even tried to
give her a hint by stating she should start with the pieces with the most cubes. I
also told her she should begin with a piece that could serve as a base piece. Once I
built the base for her, she was able to figure out how the last two pieces would
complete the puzzle. My mother also attempted my puzzle cube. She was able to
complete herself with the help of the same advice I gave my sister.

What I Would Do Different


The obvious things I would change about the overall appearance of my
project would be to glue the pieces together more straight. Like, with my piece
with the polka dots and my piece thats blank, I would redo and glue it evenly. I
would also change the way I chose to differentiate my pieces. Some of the marker
is printed on pieces that shouldnt have it and it looks messy. I would color them
the original colors I had chosen, like in my CAD model of my puzzle cube. I
couldnt do the designs I did on my pieces in Inventor.

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