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The document provides a design challenge brief for a puzzle to be made from scrap hardwood cubes for Fine Office Furniture, Inc. The puzzle is intended for high school aged customers and should provide an appropriate challenge that can be solved in 10 minutes. It must be made from 27 cubes divided into 5 unique puzzle pieces with 4-6 attached cubes each that assemble into a 2 1/4 inch cube. Some pieces must interlock.

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Desing Omar

The document provides a design challenge brief for a puzzle to be made from scrap hardwood cubes for Fine Office Furniture, Inc. The puzzle is intended for high school aged customers and should provide an appropriate challenge that can be solved in 10 minutes. It must be made from 27 cubes divided into 5 unique puzzle pieces with 4-6 attached cubes each that assemble into a 2 1/4 inch cube. Some pieces must interlock.

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Puzzle Design Challenge Brief

Client

Fine Office Furniture, Inc.

Target Consumer

Ages: High school aged

Designer

Omar Gordon

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

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