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Kites And Bricks

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Puzzle description:
Kites&Bricks is a tesselation puzzle. A brick is 2x1 rectangle, a kite is built by two half bricks if a brick is split along a diagonal and the two parts are glued together with one half turned over.
If you have many such tiles the problem is to fill a mxn-rectangle (with m or n even) completely. You can trivially solve this with bricks only, but the actual task is to use as much kites as possible. For instance,
* use 6 kites and 4 bricks to fill a 4x5-rectangle completely, or
* use 8 kites and 10 bricks to fill a 6x6-rectangle.
The pieces together with the problems were created by Livio Zucca. More information can be found at https://sicherman.net/kites-bricks/.

If you can read German: Siehe https://welt-der-geduldspiele.blogspot.com/2026/05/drachen-und-dominos-kites-and-bricks.html

Puzzle difficulty:
Medium difficulty. Very interesting because you need bricks in positions not parallel to the boundaries of the tray.

Printing instructions:
Print at least 8 ki
Source
Thingiverse
What you need to print this: Beginner Low confidence
Single piece
Supports 1/3
Assembly 0/3
Settings 1/3
Bed size 0/3
Post-process 0/3
Printer
FDM / FFF
File format
STL
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Software
Cura, PrusaSlicer, or similar
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