A standard pentomino puzzle is to tile a rectangular box with the pentominoes, i. e. cover it without overlap and without gaps.

A pentacube puzzle or 3D pentomino puzzle, amounts to filling a 3-dimensional box with these 1-layer pentacubes, i. e. cover it without overlap and without gaps.

The film will instead focus on the world and function of the puzzle box.

alt = A flow diagram consisting of text boxes connected by arrows ; the contents of each box list out the summary of a puzzle that is to be completed before following puzzles can be completed.

He found that after accidentally stepping on the switch once, they would press the switch faster in each succeeding trial inside the puzzle box.

In Thorndike ’ s learning curve the animals had difficulty escaping at first, but eventually “ caught on ” and escaped faster and faster with each successive puzzle box trial, until they eventually leveled off.

A good example is a puzzle box used to hide jewelry.

Some jigsaw enthusiasts suggest that it is bad form ( against the rules ) to look at the picture on the box while working on the puzzle, but most people find it to be perfectly normal to look at the box.

Also common are puzzle boxes: simple three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles with a small drawer or box in the center for storage.

As he lies dying, he gives Lin a puzzle box and a letter to Chon Wang.

Wang receives a parcel, which contains the puzzle box and Lin's letter, telling him their father is dead and that she has tracked the murderer to London.

Along the way, they must battle the bumbling Jack Spicer, " evil boy genius ," and the Heylin ghost-witch Wuya, who Jack accidentally freed from a 1500 year imprisonment in a puzzle box.

Omi travels back in time and receives a second puzzle box from Grand Master Dashi, the Xiaolin monk who initially trapped Wuya.

In the present time, the frozen Omi – buried underneath Wuya's palace for 1500 years – breaks free of the ice with the puzzle box in hand.

Raimundo, repulsed by the Heylin side, decides that his rightful place belongs in the Xiaolin Temple and traps Wuya in the new puzzle box.

' 108 ' in the anime series ' Tokko ' is the number of pieces in the Box of Dirge Chinese puzzle box created by alchemy as a doorway between the world of demons and this one.

The puzzle box was used in all of the Hellraiser films but there was no reference to its number of shards.

Sam Loyd claimed from 1891 until his death in 1911 that he invented the puzzle, for example writing in the Cyclopedia of Puzzles ( published 1914 ): " The older inhabitants of Puzzleland will remember how in the early seventies I drove the entire world crazy over a little box of movable pieces which became known as the " 14-15 Puzzle ".

The story focuses on a mystical puzzle box and the horror it wreaks on a family which is unfortunate enough to come across it.

Jaded to the point that conventional sexual activity now leaves him completely unstimulated, Frank hears rumors of Lament Configuration, an artifact he learned about on his travels, a puzzle box that is said to act as a portal to an extradimensional realm of unfathomable carnal pleasure.

Kirsty, a friend of Rory's who is secretly in love with him, suspects that Julia is having an affair and attempts to catch her in the act ; instead she encounters Frank, who attempts to kill her ; Kirsty steals the puzzle box and flees the house, collapsing from exhaustion on the street.

She is taken to a hospital, where she solves the puzzle box and inadvertently summons the Cenobites.

And second, psychological experiments carried out at the same time found that, for difficult problems in logic, planning or any kind of " puzzle solving ", people used this kind of symbol processing as well.

Many of the most popular books of the Golden Age were written by Agatha Christie, who produced a long series of books featuring her detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, amongst others, and usually including a complex puzzle for the reader to try to unravel.

Likewise, maze games in the arcades were another precursor to puzzle games ( see 1979's Heiankyo Alien, for example ).

Several dozen puzzle video games were created in the 1990s, with many games allowing players to arrange falling blocks as seen in Tetris.

In the 1920s, Harold Murdock of Boston attempted to solve the puzzle of the first shots fired on Lexington Green, and came to the suspicion that the few score militia men who gathered before sunrise to await the arrival of hundreds of well-prepared British soldiers were sent specifically to provoke an incident which could be used for propaganda purposes.

Danish interest in tangrams skyrocketed around 1818, when two books on the puzzle were published, to much enthusiasm.

These newspaper puzzles were almost entirely non-cryptic at first and gradually used more cryptic clues, until the fully cryptic puzzle as known today became widespread.

The puzzle boxes were approximately 20 inches long, 15 inches wide, and 12 inches tall.

Thorndike ’ s puzzle boxes were arranged so that the animal would be required to perform a certain response ( pulling a lever or pushing a button ), while he measured the amount of time it took them to escape.

Thorndike meant to distinguish clearly whether or not cats escaping from puzzle boxes were using insight.

The angels were said to tap out letters on a complicated table, something like a crossword puzzle but with all the cells filled in.

Fans previously had to use other game engines, which were not always suited to the puzzle style of the Dizzy games.

Centuries later, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes introduced a further puzzle, wondering: what would happen if the original planks were gathered up after they were replaced, and used to build a second ship.

Paint by numbers puzzles were implemented by 1995 on hand held electronic toys such as Game Boy and on other plastic puzzle toys.

Nintendo picked up on this puzzle fad and released two " Picross " ( Picture Crossword ) titles for the Game Boy and nine for the Super Famicom ( eight of which were released in two-month intervals for the Nintendo Power Super Famicom Cartridge Writer as the " NP Picross " series ) in Japan.

These types of puzzles were a major inspiration for what has become known as " the hardest logic puzzle ever ".

Zapiski o XX i XXI wieku (" In the Whirlpools of History: Jottings on the 20th and the 21st Centuries "; Cracow, Znak, 2007 ) is a compilation of interviews and lectures, reflecting Kapuściński's training as a historian and dealing with contemporary issues and their historical and cross-cultural parallels ( including such issues as globalisation, Islam, the birth of the Third World, and the dawn of the Pacific civilisation ). Kapuściński's pronouncements on current affairs were noteworthy: he thought that the causes of the 9 / 11 tragedy, for example, were too complex to lend themselves to an exhaustively thorough analysis at present, although he offered an extensive and sophisticated exposition of some of the key elements of the puzzle in " Zderzenie cywilizacji " ( The Clash of Civilisations ); he told a BBC interviewer right after the attacks: " I greatly fear that we will waste this moment.

From these observations, MBBK created an alternative hypothesis to explain the " puzzle " of how the codes were discovered.

The Zelda theme and the traditional sound effect played upon solving a puzzle were considered welcome additions, but other sound effects were criticized as simplistic " beeps ".

The castle possessed 24 rooms and 47 doors, with hand-carved puzzle locks, which were also devised by Gillette.

A level editor allows players to create their own puzzle levels to share with others, and thousands of levels were uploaded to Sega's online service during the game's lifetime.

The original 100 puzzle levels were included, as well as 2, 500 user-submitted levels from the online service.