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The comments on this card say that it is impossible to fit these 35 pieces into a perfect rectangle. Thus, a small "navel" exists at the top of the rectangular plastic case. This puzzle has been in my family since the early 1970s, and no one has been able to find a solution other than the one that comes with the puzzle.]]> mark thomas photo Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:43:38 -0400 http://www.sorabji.com/pictures/Tenyo/Untitled-4.jpg.html http://www.sorabji.com/pictures/Tenyo/Untitled-4.jpg.html
The comments on this card seem to suggest that there are 1,000,000,000 ways to fit these pieces in the container. Luckily, the grid on this card shows one possible solution. Without that solution we would never have fit the pieces in the container. We never found even one other way to do it. Perhaps we have been misguided all this time by the Engrish, but if there are not literally 1,000,000,000 ways to fit these pieces back in the case then there should there not at least be more than one?]]> mark thomas photo Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:12:21 -0400 http://www.sorabji.com/pictures/Tenyo/Untitled-3.jpg.html http://www.sorabji.com/pictures/Tenyo/Untitled-3.jpg.html
Here are the pieces of the puzzle, properly fitted into the container. I guess you could say they are Tetris-like, though Tetris was not invented until the 1980s. This is the only solution we ever reached with this puzzle. We reached this not on our own but with the help of a grid included with the puzzle (see next page).]]> mark thomas photo Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:14:07 -0400 http://www.sorabji.com/pictures/Tenyo/Untitled-2.jpg.html http://www.sorabji.com/pictures/Tenyo/Untitled-2.jpg.html
The back side of the case shows the tape that holds this thing together.]]> mark thomas photo Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:43:38 -0400 http://www.sorabji.com/pictures/Tenyo/Untitled-1.jpg.html http://www.sorabji.com/pictures/Tenyo/Untitled-1.jpg.html
This puzzle has been in my family since the early 1970s. The masking tape barely holds the case together. This puzzle has been a long-running source of chagrin, because we have never been able to solve it on our own.]]> mark thomas photo Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:10:37 -0400