Puzzle, Ten-Yen
date: label: date made
content: 1950
notes: label: Description
content: Puzzles involving the arrangement of flat polygons into various shapes have been known since antiquity. This ten-piece plastic puzzle has as its pieces polyominoes from simple small square to pieces five times as large. It has one square, one domino, two trominoes, three tetrominoes, and three pentominoes. The goal is to arrange the pieces into a large square. Pieces are colored red, white, or black. In more advanced solutions to the puzzle, pieces of like color are grouped or separated. The puzzle has a transparent plastic case and a paper sheet of instructions.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Mathematical Recreations
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Rhoda S. Ratner
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0047.02
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0047.02
label: accession number
content: 2008.0047
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puzzle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 cm x 9.3 cm x 9.5 cm; 13/32 in x 3 21/32 in x 3 3/4 in