Juno’s Squashed Tetra

I was ecstatic to have won the bid on this stunning puzzle by Juno!  

I’ve been making puzzles for over 20 years now with the majority being packing designs so acquiring this beauty was a no brainer.  

Juno used the offcuts from the Euroka to craft this ‘one of a kind’ puzzle as you can see by Juno’s description from Pluredro:

“This puzzle is the only one in the world. There is even no designer's copy.

After making the Euroka 10x3, Juno decided to use up the wood offcuts because it was such a waste. He was able to get a bit under 64 square elements, so he designed a puzzle consists of 56 elements. He achieved a total of 56 elements by omitting cuboid-shaped pieces in all combinations of squashed tetra cubes.

This puzzle box has a small opening at the top, suggesting that it is a puzzle with restricted motion. BurrTools found 39736 solutions that did not account for rotational movements. It sounds simple, but there are 100x more assemblies that can't fit all the pieces into the box.

The puzzle is huge and heavy.”