Using the 4 pieces shown, create a capital letter 'T' without gaps or overlaps.
Using the 4 pieces shown, create a capital letter 'T' without gaps or overlaps.
Then try some others shapes you can make - either invent your own or see a selection below.
40 copies were produced for a workshop as a handout to all the participants.
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The earliest known example of a T puzzle was an advertisement for White Rose Ceylon Tea dating back to 1903 [1]. A picture of this early puzzle can be found on the Historical Folk Toys web page [2] see below.
A little later, Amour’s in Chicago used it to promote sausages [3] see picture on the right.
Over time many variations of the puzzle have been created to allow other shapes beyond just the T to be made with the pieces.
Martin Gardner described a version in his famous puzzle column in the Scientific American magazine [4] which allowed the pieces (Figure 3) to form the "classical T" as well as the "Fat T" and the "Teezer" shape.
