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Game / Spatial Puzzle — Soma Cube

Game / Spatial Puzzle — Soma Cube

Designer: Piet Hein
Manufacturer: Skjøde Skjern, Denmark
Material: Rosewood
Dimensions: 9.5 × 9.5 × 9.5 cm

NT$8,000
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Piet Hein (1905–1996) was a prominent Danish polymath active in the fields of poetry, mathematics, and design. Between the 1960s and 1970s, he collaborated with the Danish manufacturer Skjøde Knudsen to produce a series of games, including Soma, Hex (Con-Tac-Tix), Polytaire, and Morra.

Skjøde Knudsen was originally a bookkeeper who later began manufacturing wooden games. Combining design with fine craftsmanship, these products became popular in Danish households and were even embraced by the Royal Family at Amalienborg. Their collaboration lasted approximately one decade.

The Soma Cube, cataloged as No. 674 in this series, was produced around the 1960s (with documented versions dating back to 1967). Its concept dates back to 1933, when Piet Hein suddenly conceived the idea during a quantum mechanics lecture to pass the time. His vision was to assemble smaller cubes into a larger one; viewing this concept of "all irregular elements forming the most regular shape" as a philosophical statement, he famously referred to the Soma as "the world's smallest philosophical system."

The Soma consists of seven distinct polycubes that can be rotated and assembled into a complete $3 \times 3 \times 3$ cube. With 240 distinct solutions (excluding rotations and reflections), it is widely regarded as one of the most iconic spatial structural puzzles of the 20th century.

Item Number: OT526

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