SOMA News

2 Nov 2006 E-Mail.

MONDAY, November 2, 2006
The Piet Hein A/S compagny www.piethein.com has just now, released its newest SOMA puzzle. The new product consist of a traditional SOMA cube, with each piece colored in its own color.

The BIG SOMA "bed" in my living room

Black, Blue, Yellow, Gray, Green, Red, Orange.

AND, A giant soft foam cube. The foam pieces are all covered with nice colored and water repelling covers. Which by the way include zippers so that they may be removed for careful washing, when the kids have messed it up.
The soft pieces by the way, are not too soft, when I build "the bed" it vill comfortably sustain me, feeling soft/hard just like any other foldable weekend bed. Its too short for me though, giving a "bed" size of 1 meter x 1.66 meter. The foto shows it lying in my livingroom. (With the small SOMA in the middle)


Now for the intended customers.
Obviously this is a super game and puzzle for institutions. - Kindergardens, preschools, schools and Yes even at college. I have introduced my SOMA's several times at the mathematics classes I teach in the HTX Technical college, each time giving joy to my students at ages of 15 to 20 years.
My advice is always:
"Don't ever grow up to be real adult, keep the child within you active, and you have found the well of youth."

The SOMA poster

The smaller SOMA is made in a very nice quality, each piece colored like its BIG counterpart, so in this way, it is easy for the younger kids to identify the different pieces, and whereas we may normally identify the pieces by their shape-code or number. T = 3. It is much more natural for kids to refer to the "Yellow" piece.

The Handy puzzle"

The Handy puzzle pieces