Puzzle, Binomial Cube
date: label: Date made
content: 1990s
name: label: maker
content: Farrell, Jeremiah P.
notes: label: Description
content: This puzzle consists of twenty-seven cubes which are glued together to form one 1 x 1 x 1 cube, three 1 x 1 x 2 blocks, three 1 x 2 x 2 blocks and one 2 x 2 x 2 cube. The sides of the cubes are painted according to a scheme devised by Farrell. The goal is to arrange the pieces to form a cube in which the opposite faces are of the same color - the colors of the outside are red, green and black. There are also two additional 1 x 1 x 1 cubes. Replacing one of these for the 1 x 1 x 1 cube yields a puzzle with two solutions, the second a puzzle with no solutions.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Jeremiah P. Farrell, "Cube Puzzles," <I>The Mathemagician and the Pied Puzzler: A Collection in Tribute to Martin Gardner</I>, ed. Elwyn Berlekamp and Tom Rodgers, Natick, MA: A. K. Peters,1999, 145-149.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Indiana, Indianapolis
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Jeremiah P. Farrell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.3031.03
label: catalog number
content: 2005.3031.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 2005.3031
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Puzzle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.2 cm x 6 cm x 6 cm; 3 7/32 in x 2 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in