Stable Boy

Place the five pieces in the 4×7 tray so that none can slide, individually or in a group.

This is a miniature in the style of Vladimir Krasnoukhov's Anti-Slide puzzles. George Bell, who mentioned anti-slide puzzles to me in 2015, discovered that the pieces have a unique packing in a circle whose diameter is approximately 5.6765 times the side of a piece cell.

Stable Boy was featured in the August 2020 issue of the Russian science magazine Квант.

You can sometimes obtain Stable Boy from Wood Wonders Online.

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