Interlocking Puzzle Pieces and other Geometric Toys

  • Astro-Logix 3d ball-and-stick geometric construction kit.

  • CalmPlex puzzles. Reassemble a chessboard cut into twelve interlocking polyominos.

  • Delta Blocks. Hop David discusses ideas for manufacturing building blocks based on the tetrahedron-octahedron space tiling depicted in Escher's "Flatworms".

  • Design Science Toys.

  • Die-cast metal polyhedra available for sale from Pedagoguery Software.

  • Fractiles, multicolored magnetic rhombs with angles based on multiples of pi/7.

  • Interlocking Puzzles LLC are makers of hand crafted hardwood puzzles including burrs, pentominoes, and polyhedra.

  • Jovo Click 'n Construct. Plastic click-together triangular, square, and pentagonal tiles for building models of polyhedra and polygonal tilings.

  • Kadon Enterprises, makers of games and puzzles including polyominoes and Penrose tiles.

  • Lego Pentominos, Eric Harshbarger. He writes that the hard part was finding legos in enough different colors. See also his Lego math puzzles page.

  • LiveCube polycube puzzle building toy.

  • Ozzigami tessellations, papercraft, unfolded peel-n-stick glitter Platonic solids, and more.

  • Polymorf geometric construction set system created by Rick Engel.

  • Roger's Connection. Magnetic construction toy, scientific exploration tool, executive desk toy, magnet learning tool, architectural design tool, artistic sculpture system, manual dexterity training, and much more! (Make geometric shapes out of steel balls and magnet-tipped plastic tubes.) See also Simon Fraser's Roger's Connection gallery.

  • Space Cubes plastic geometric modeling puzzle based on a rectangular Borromean link.

  • Tessellations, a company which makes Puzzellations puzzles, posters, prints, and kaleidoscopes inspired in part by Escher, Penrose, and Mendelbrot.

  • Zometool. The 31-zone structural system for constructing "mathematical models, from tilings to hyperspace projections, as well as molecular models of quasicrystals and fullerenes, and architectural space frame structures".

  • Frank Zubek's Elusive Cube. Magnetic tetrahedra connect to form dissections of cubes and many other shapes.