Solving the extremely difficult Broken Soma by Ken Irvine (spoilers) #mechanicalpuzzles
18The Soma Cube is one of the staples of mechanical puzzles, assembly puzzles to be exact. It is similar to a tangram in 3D. The first challenge for the standard Soma Cube is usually to make a 3 x 3 x 3 cube.
However, this version show in the video is called the Broken Soma by Ken Irvine, and it is produced by Wood Wonders (puzzle can be found here: https://woodwondersonline.com/collections/classics-and-popular-puzzles/products/nypp-broken-soma). It is broken in the sense even though it is still 27 voxels big, there are voxels that are split in halves which made it significantly more difficult to solve! There are actually a few different variations of the broken soma, made out of different wood combinations. Mine is mixed which seems to have made it slightly more difficult too....
I was expecting this to be tough, but it proved to be even harder than I thought! Even though the design looks quite simple, there is this super a-ha! moment during the solve that makes it really satisfying to solve. Putting the last piece to complete the cube looks soooo satisfying.
In this video, I will show you how to solve the broken soma. And this time I have taken a second angle to clearly show the solution of this amazing puzzle.
I plan to do a review video on this puzzle later too! In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this video!
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