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Three Puzzle Gift Set This fabulous wood box contains the best of the best and most popular wood puzzles of today. These top three finely crafted puzzles continue to delight and fascinate everyone from novice puzzlers to university professors. Whether for the shear brain teasing joy of the attempt, or for the interesting mathematical analysis of a solution, these puzzles will provoke higher thought and provide hours of entertainment. This three-in-one to go box contains: Snake cube: This legendarily difficult brain-teasing puzzle will have you undulating in no time. If the snake starts to constrict you, just remember: The string of cubes form a Hamiltonian path through a 3 3 3 grid graph, duh! Skill and patience will be tried when turning the snake of 27 unit cubes back into the original large cube. Burr puzzle: This wood crafted, precision-made puzzle of intersecting cuboids supposedly resembles a burr seed (that famous inspiration for Velcro) upon completion. In this classic six-piece Burr, three sets of rod pairs need to intersect with each other properly to solve the puzzle. Soma cube: Mathematician Pien Hein was a little bored at Heisenbergs lecture on quantum theory, as you can probably imagine. Instead of pondering the uncertainty of alive-dead cats electron particles, Hein, a huge fan of brain teasers, conceived of the soma cube, which contains 240 distinct solutions where the seven pieces made out of unit polycubes, must be assembled into a 3x3x3 cube. Puzzlers rejoiced everywhere. This beautiful bi-colored wood cube comes in its own box and consists of 6 tetracubes and one tricube and contains no probability clouds!