How to Figure Out a Tetris Cube

Preparation

• 1

  Remove the Tetris cube from its container. Lay all of the pieces in front of you.

• 2

  Arrange all the pieces of the Tetris cube according to their color, shape, or sizes. This helps to visualize how the pieces should fit together before attempting a solution. You can choose any type of arrangement that works for you, but make sure you can keep track of it in your mind.

• 3

  Label all the pieces of the cube. This will make it easier to keep track of what piece is going where and when referring back, you will not have to try and identify the shapes repeatedly.

• 4

  Find a flat surface or, preferably, utilize the original container for your Tetris cube.

Solution

• 5

  Take the "L" shaped yellow piece with a protuberance coming from the end of the short line of the "L" shape and place it at a corner with the protuberance facing up and the long side against the corner.

• 6

  Pick up the red piece that resembles an incomplete cross with a protuberance at the end of the bisected, long line. Place it beside the yellow "L" shape so that its protuberance faces up and rests against the corner, while the other end of the bisected line touches the corner of the yellow "L" shape.

• 7

  Find the blue piece which resembles a "V" with a protrusion in the middle of one of the lines. Place this piece directly between the red and yellow pieces, fitting the protrusion in the space below where the pieces touch.

• 8

  Find the yellow piece that is made to look like an "X" when laid down. Place it on the red and blue pieces near the corner that is not yet occupied. Place it so that one short protuberance touches the red piece and the longer protuberance lays on the red and blue.

• 9

  Identify the zigzagged blue piece with a bulge at one of the ends of the straight lines. Place it into the single square between the first yellow and red pieces you placed into the cube so that the long end of the protrusion rests on the last yellow piece you put into the cube.

• 10

  Place the red "V" shaped piece onto the first blue shape you put in so that the open side faces nothing but the edge of the cube; don't place it in so that the opening faces the yellow block.

• 11

  Find the long red piece with only one protuberance at one of its ends. Insert it directly into the last piece of corner on the bottom of the cube that you have made so far. It will only fit one way in this location, and that's with the protuberance yellow piece from step 4 and facing the blue piece from step 3.

• 12

  Look for the piece with the website address "Tetris.com" on it. After you find it, place it into the cube so that its single protuberance rests on the blue zigzagged blue piece from step 5 and so that the part with the website address is on the outside of the cube (as in, it becomes a part of one of the faces of the cube instead of being a shape on the inside).

• 13

  Pick up the last yellow piece, which should resemble two small "V"s attached by a square in the middle. Place it atop the long blue piece from step 3 so that one of the "V" shapes opens onto the top of this blue piece, and the other opens sideways onto the single protuberance of the red piece from step 7.

• 14

  Grab the blue piece, which looks similar to a "V" with one protuberance at the very end of one of the lines. Put it into the cube directly onto the very first piece you placed in, the yellow "L" shaped piece. It should fit in so that the protruding square rests on the yellow piece from step 9.

• 15

  Place the zigzagging blue piece on top of the cube. The short end of the zigzag should fit perfectly into the corner formed by the red piece in step 7.

• 16

  Now take the final piece--the red square with a single protuberance at one of its right angles--and press it into the cube so that the protrusion rests on the yellow square next to it.