Talk:Hoffman's packing puzzle

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Did you know... that it is possible to pack 27 equal cuboids (pictured) into a cube?

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The result was: promoted by Gatoclass (talk) 10:36, 6 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hoffman's packing puzzle

... that it is possible to pack 27 equal cuboids (pictured) into a cube? Any one of the references of the article supports this basic description of the puzzle; the most widely accessible of the references is https://johnrausch.com/PuzzleWorld/puz/hoffmans_packing_puzzle.htm, although the sentence in the article that most clearly supports the hook ("Its goal is to assemble ...") instead uses two book sources. Also, to forestall pedantry: the more technically correct word would be "congruent" rather than "equal", but I think "equal" conveys the meaning accurately enough while being more accessible. I also thought about using "identical" but the blocks in the image are obviously not identical even at 100px (they have different colors).

Reviewed: Susan Billy

Created by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 02:24, 17 November 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Article is new enough, long enough, and well cited. Hook is interesting and supported by cited sources. QPQ is done. No copyvio detected. Image is freely licensed. Good to go. -Zanhe (talk) 05:28, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]