1. Project 4.1 Puzzle Design Challenge
Michelle Hier

2. Puzzle Design Challenge Brief
Client: Fine Office Furniture, Inc.
Target Consumer Ages: High school aged 
Designer: Michelle Hier
Problem Statement
A local office furniture manufacturing company throws away tens of thousands of scrap ¾” hardwood cubes that result from its furniture construction processes. The material is expensive, and the scrap represents a sizeable loss of profit.
Design Statement
Fine Office Furniture, Inc. would like to return value to its waste product by using it as the raw material for desktop novelty items that will be sold on the showroom floor. Design, build, test, document, and present a three-dimensional puzzle system that is made from the scrap hardwood cubes. The puzzle system must provide an appropriate degree of challenge to high school students.

3. Puzzle Design Challenge Brief
Criteria
The puzzle must be fabricated from 27 – ¾″ hardwood cubes.
The puzzle system must contain exactly five puzzle parts.
Each individual puzzle part must consist of at least four, but no more than six hardwood cubes that are permanently attached to each other.
No two puzzle parts can be the same.
The five puzzle parts must assemble to form a 2 ¼″ cube.
Some puzzle parts should interlock.
The puzzle should require high school students an average of ______ minutes/seconds to solve. (Fill in your target solution time.)

4. Possible Puzzle Parts

5. Graphical Modeling
Signature ON sketch?

6. Why I Chose My Design
I chose this design because it fit the requirements of the challenge. It also features unique and interesting parts.

7. Multiview Drawings

8. 3D Modeled Parts

9. Assembled 3D Modeled Puzzle

10. Puzzle Pieces

11. Assembled Puzzle

12. 3D Presentation File

13. Puzzle Drawing

14. Yellow Part Drawing

15. Red Part Drawing

16. Orange Part Drawing

17. Green Part Drawing

18. Blue Part Drawing

19. How to Improve Design
If I were to do this again, I would draw out even more possible pieces to give myself more possible puzzle combinations.
I would also spend more time coming up with puzzle combinations to make my puzzle a bit more challenging.
I found after I built my puzzle that there are multiple ways to solve it. If I was to build another, I would test for possible other solutions and try to modify it so there is only one solution.
I agree. The more pieces the better! Remember to add comment about multiple ways to solve the puzzle.
Nice job. I agree, the whole project is much easier to view in a presentation. I think I will include that requirement. Thanks for your help.