We were introduced to the world of Meiji Chocolate Puzzles a couple of years ago when a friend of our son's gave him the easiest version as a birthday present.
They look exactly like the chocolate bars you can buy in the shop, even down to the wrappers, but they are plastic puzzles. You can see the tetris-like pieces if you look closely at the photo. It is even clearer here.
But the puzzle comes with no solutions page!
The official name for one of the puzzles (the second from the top in the photo) is Pentonimoes. Which Wikipaedia defines as: a polyomino composed of five congruent squares, connected along their edges. Intrigued, here is the link to the article.
We bought the other three for the boys for Christmas.
While the bottom three have many solutions, the top one (officially a hexomino puzzle) apparently has only one and it is almost impossible to find accidentally. In fact the instructions advise you note what it looks like when you receive it, before you tip it out. Of course, our impulsive eldest didn't and we resorted to looking up someone else's solution on the web, it was just too hard, even for the mathematical fiends in my house.
You guys were great, supportive parents to be there at the game Saturday. Kudos' to you! Those chocolate puzzles are tricky...and make me tired just thinking about it.
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Praying for encouragement about your support and especially God's peace that He is faithful and will provide.