Soma cube Soma cube The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle invented by Piet Hein in 1933 during a lecture on quantum mechanics conducted by Werner Heisenberg. Its name is alleged to be derived from the fictitious drug "soma" consumed as a pastime by the establishment in Aldous Huxley's dystopic novel "Brave New World". Seven pieces made out of unit cubes must be assembled into a 3×3×3 cube. The pieces can also be used to make a variety of other 3D shapes. The pieces of the Soma cube consist of all possible combinations of three or four unit cubes, joined at
Multimagic cube Multimagic cube In mathematics, a "P"-multimagic cube is a magic cube that remains magic even if all its numbers are replaced by their "k"-th power for 1 ≤ "k" ≤ "P". Thus, a magic cube is bimagic when it is 2-multimagic, and trimagic when it is 3-multimagic, tetramagic when it is 4-multimagic. A "P"-multimagic cube is said to be semi-perfect if the "k"-th power cubes are perfect for 1 ≤ "k" < "P", and the "P"-th power cube is semiperfect. If all "P" of the power cubes are perfect, the multimagic cube is said to be perfect. The first known