Pythagoras' Drawer

Pythagoras' Drawer

This is the last of No Problem Puzzle’s amazing series of “Drawer” puzzles. The goal is to close the drawer with the the four polycubes packed inside. The drawer can open only half way and oddly moves in a diagonal fashion, hence the eponym Pythagoras. To insert all pieces, several moves and rotations are required and since there is only one solution from a staggering 150k assemblies, it is fair to say this puzzle is no child’s play.

Printing Instructions

Print all parts as oriented in the STL files.

The cage, drawer and pieces are recommended to be printed with 0.2mm layer height, 2 walls and 15% infill. You can add 3 walls and 50% infill to the pieces to give them a more solid feel. Seam alignment is “aligned”.

When printing the drawer, the underside has a long channel. Check your slicer to ensure that the bridges run perpendicular across the channel (blue lines in the included picture). If your lines run lengthwise, the filament will droop and your print will not be successful. In this case you first will need to change the bridging angle.

The cage comes in two versions. In one, the name is embossed with the name “Pythagoras Drawer”. If you have an AMS, you can print the letters in a contrasting color, if preferred. If you wish coloured letters, but do not have a multi-colour printer, you can use the labels provided and glue the two label plates onto the version of the cage that does not have the puzzle name. The labels can be printed using a filament color change at the appropriate layer height. A 3mf le, for PrusaSlicer 2.9x, is included if you wish help with this option.

Two sets of pieces are provided. Choose the look you prefer.

To assemble, perform the following after printing all parts:

• place drawer onto rail of floor

• place glue onto cage as shown in picture

• press cage and floor together and apply force until glue bonds

• glue ends of handle and glue into drawer

Difficulty

3.5 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.

Modifications to the original designs for ease of printing and aesthetics provided by Dave Crabbe.