No Picnic Basket

No Picnic Basket

This puzzle challenges you to put the seven Soma pieces in a 3x3x3 cube. This would be easy if it wasn't for a central handle which surrounds the box and obstructs packing. Fortunately the handle can move, but only a bit, allowing for one solution.

Printing Instructions

Print one of each file. Assemble the box as shown in the image with the assembly instructions. And you are all ready for puzzling.

Remarks from the publisher: This puzzle requires a maneuver that is relatively tight And depending on your printer accuracy and the materials used it might look like this is not an intended move. Look at the image where the one piece is wedged between the basked and the handle. By taking the handle out of its groove and then rotating it slightly to the left you can actually rotate the piece into the box.

Difficulty

4 out of 5

The Printable Puzzle Project

The Printable Puzzle Project aims to make available high-quality open-source models of many puzzle designs. All of our models are posted with the generous permission of their designers and are licensed for non-commercial use only. Anyone may print copies for their own personal use, but selling or otherwise monetizing them is not permitted, and puzzle designers retain all rights as copyright holders of their work.

Our puzzles are modeled using the open-source puzzlecad library. The .scad file is included with this model in case you want to modify any of its design parameters; more information on how to do this can be found in the PPP Puzzle Modeling tutorial.

The "No Problem Puzzle Collection" contains many puzzles with complicated boxes that would be too hard to model using open-scad. Additionally the original design files for the boxes have been lost due to a hd-fault. That is why these puzzles only contain scad-files for the pieces.

About The Designers

From November 2020 to April 2023 Theo Geerinck and Symen Hovinga collaborated under the trading name of "No Problem Puzzles" to design and produce their puzzles. Many of their unique packing puzzles introduce fascinating features such as moving or sliding doors and elements. These features and the way they behave always add a playful new dimension to the more familiar exercise of packing shapes. Those puzzles could once be purchased through an online printing service. Alternatively, for those who owned a 3D printer the files could be obtained from Symen.

However, after the tragic loss of Symen, purchases through the ‘No Problem Shop’ was no longer possible. Therefore, Theo decided to publish the designs so that everybody can create 3d-printed copies to be enjoyed for personal use.