Make a classic Soma puzzle
Looking for a homemade gift or just a fun game. Try making this classic Soma puzzle.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
- Saw
- Wood glue
- Sandpaper
- Tape
- Paint or oil finish
- 16-inch-long board, 1 inch thick and at least 3 inches wide
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Step 1: Cut 27 1-inch-cube blocks
Step 2: Sand each piece
Step 3: Assemble and glue the 7 separate shapes A through G as shown. Use tape to hold the pieces together until they are dry.
Step 4: After the glue dries, remove tape and do a final sanding of the 7 puzzle pieces.
Step 5: Oil or paint the shapes.
TO PLAY
See if you can assemble the pieces into a cube. In addition to building the cube, you can click here to learn to make other Soma structures.
THE SECRET TO BUILDING THE CUBE
L-A-M-E!
I gave up on the paper and made something else with the paper I used.
Making it out of paper! I’ll tell you if it works
looks easy is it
This is my all-time favorite puzzle. There are dozens and dozens of different puzzles to try, not just the cube, so this is far more intuitive than that ‘other’ cube 🙂
“That Other Cube” is the most popular puzzle in the world
Rubik’s Cubes are way better. I can silve a Rubiks Cube in under 30 seconds.
Soma cubes are way more boring than Rubik’s cubes
Very cool
I think this would be cool for my Webelos den but i dont know which badge it is. Please tell me if you can.
Meman
cool
This is cool, even though it isn’t a Rubik’s Cube, it is a good puzzle for PARTIES! And to out-smart the teacher.
my dad makes them so tricky that they are free and the instructions are $20
me 12!
i want to make one
Me too.
Me three
AWESOME
its awesome
pretty awesome!
I thought that it was instructions on how to build a Rubik’s cube!!!!
thats what i thought too!
same here
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I made my own in a school class it doesn’t look that good because we didn’t have equal peices. This would have helped a while ago.
awesome.. i would like to make one too
Ha Ha this is SO FUN:]
this is like a bedlam cube
dude, this isnt very hard, it realy fun though!
is this some sort of rubicks cube
those things are easy to make and fun to play!